I've never had the AC-3 amps but I've been and always seem to be in that type of situation
sometimes its better to just get a nice setup that you are happy with and trade/sell off the other stuff and be content about it.
I used to have all the 5.1 stuff and was just bogged down by it, and I had the idea to sell it off thanks to my father,
who actually bought all the stuff for 5.1 that I took when I moved
and I can't be happier with my 2 channel setup, yet it would be nice to have that surround but most of the films
I watch are either in mono as they are older or foreign or they were just Dolby surround and when they
remaster to AC-3 and the likes they change or add stuff that I just don't like.
so even DVDs are run through 2.0
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