Is it worth upgrading from Rotel RSP985 and RMB985?

[catzilla]

hi,

i am wondering if it is worth upgrading from my current amplification.
My system contains B&W 2*804,HTM1,2*805 and 850 for sub.
My pre amp is a Rotel RSP-985 and RMB 985 poweramp.
From my knowing Rotel is no high end but gives a lot of value for its price.

I dont have much experience with high end amplification,but should it be worth considering Thule or Classé for amping?Should i get a lot more out of my B&W's,i'm not short of power,my rotel gives 5*100W RMS.

Any advice is welcome.

thx.

[htsteve]

Yes, Yes, Yes

Catzilla,

In short, yes. I had an RSP985 powering an RMB1094 into N804's, HTM1 and SCM8's. I recently bought the RSP 1068. The sound improvement and flexibility (indiv. speaker settings, etc.) were decidedly better. PLII is also a good improvement on cable/satellite sources.

As for amplification, the Nautilus' like power. As noted above, I have a 1095. I does these justice. You actually have 5 Nautilus, I only have three. I'd recommend an amp upgrade to at least 200 wpc. 100 wpc probably will not reveal all that the Nautilus' can do (especially with a good, but previous generation pre-amp). Also, other posts in this forum have talked about some rotel monoblocks (500 wpc, $1500 ea?) on the horizon that would be a very nice upgrade. Classe and others at that level would be quite nice too.

IMO, Rotel does give a lot of value for the buck, but I would consider them high end.

Hope you get to demo some of these fine units.

Hope this helps.

[catzilla]

hi htsteve,

thx for your reply.I checked out the rmb-1095 on the rotel site,i see it has balanced and unbalanced inputs.Does that make a lot of difference? because the preamp rsp-1068 or the 1098 doesnt have such a connections.

greets.