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Home Theater Receiver Recommendation

Yamaha RX-V line RX-V375 line and upwards ... I tend to splurge on my receiver as they are like 5+ year items. Time to upgrade those speakers son ! :afm199
 
http://www.accessories4less.com/mak...arantz-nr1403-slimline-5.1-av-receiver/1.html

Just buy this. Decent room correction software. Quality receiver. Its smaller than most so its good for a bedroom. Can be used for a 5.1 system later if desired. Not too pricey. Honestly there is no difference in sound quality from one receiver to the next. It can either drive the speakers correctly or not. The difference in receivers is reliabilty and if they have room correction software. This hits everything you need and more.
 
unirr said:
I tend to splurge on my receiver as they are like 5+ year items.
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I'll get lazy and forget but I should post a picture of my Sony receiver I purchased... in 1994. :laughing

It sucks that I can't plug my iPod into it, but that's really the only complaint I have. I got a new home theater system a few years ago when my wife upgraded us to an LCD. I doesn't have as much power (volume) as the Sony, but I can plug the iPod into it. So depending on what room I'm in or how quickly (or loudly) I want to hear a song, I sometimes still have to dig out the occasional CD.
 
Eye Heart Pasta said:
I'll get lazy and forget but I should post a picture of my Sony receiver I purchased... in 1994. :laughing

It sucks that I can't plug my iPod into it, but that's really the only complaint I have. I got a new home theater system a few years ago when my wife upgraded us to an LCD. I doesn't have as much power (volume) as the Sony, but I can plug the iPod into it. So depending on what room I'm in or how quickly (or loudly) I want to hear a song, I sometimes still have to dig out the occasional CD.
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Yeah man, they last forever. I've had a refurb Harmon Kardon receiver that's been across the country shipped 3-4 times, juice spilled in it several times (*sits under my desk) :laughing, dropped, kicked, feet rested on it .. Thing lasted 7 years w/ all of that abuse. I now have a Yamaha rx-v675 (*lowest model w/ burr down dacs) that I take much better care of :p .. Airplay/spotify/can control it from iphone and all sorts of other juicy things.

I'm running Martin Logans and dual subs on it. Listening to
[YOUTUBE]T2aFPe7mrhg[/YOUTUBE]
sounds dam near live.

I hope OP is reading this, goes to an audio demo room, hears an amazing rig, fucks up, and starts heading down the audiophile track ... That's how I got started.. Never go into the listening rooms :x

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Eye Heart Pasta said:
I'll get lazy and forget but I should post a picture of my Sony receiver I purchased... in 1994. :laughing

It sucks that I can't plug my iPod into it, but that's really the only complaint I have.
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Mini plug to RCA jack will allow you to play your iPod on any old receiver.

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SNsMoto said:
hmmm thanks everyone. Yeah I think I only need a stereo receiver lol. This is to set up two small cheapo external speakers to a tv in the bedroom. Was thinking to spend under $100, but sounds like that's out of the question? All the receiver needs to do is be able to operate the speakers :laughing. Going to hook up a pair of RCA cables from the comcast box to the receiver?
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Just start a thread "anyone got an old stereo receiver laying around" and I'm sure you'll get one for cheap if not free.
 
GAJ said:
Mini plug to RCA jack will allow you to play your iPod on any old receiver.
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Tried that. Didn't seem to work. Actually, it was an optical (also had a yellow RCA plug). I tried R/W, R/Y, and W/Y into the back of the receiver and never got more than white noise.
 
Eye Heart Pasta said:
Tried that. Didn't seem to work. Actually, it was an optical (also had a yellow RCA plug). I tried R/W, R/Y, and W/Y into the back of the receiver and never got more than white noise.
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Mini plug goes into the iPod's headphone jack, rca plugs go into any analog input on the back of the receiver.

Works every time; impossible for it not to.

You have to turn the volume on the iPod to max and adjust speaker volume with the receiver's volume control.
 
If you have a Santa Barbara connection, Alpha Thrift has really nice receivers come in all the time. There are 2 Alpha Thrifts in Goleta, one at the north end of Goleta, one at the south end on Hollister Ave. I've seen Onkyo, Denon and Pioneer there, all of them for $49.95. There are different ones there every time, and they'll let you hook them up. If I had not have bought a couple of Onkyo receivers (one brand new when Circuit City went under, and one from Alpha Thrift), I'd have bought one of the bad ass Denons they had there last time I went.
 
GAJ said:
You have to turn the volume on the iPod to max and adjust speaker volume with the receiver's volume control.
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That's the part I didn't do last time. Just tried it again, worked like a charm. Thanks! :thumbup
 
I got the base Yamaha 5.1 for my proper HiFi speakers and damn they sound great. I have a small space so saved money on power, it's 70 wpc but that's a LOT. Hooked up to Roku and Plasma TV.
 
russ69 said:
You need to rethink that a tad, this one sounds pretty good, I hear.
http://www.audioadvisor.com/prodinfo.asp?number=MDMD209
Or this one:
http://www.mcintoshlabs.com/us/Products/pages/categorylanding.aspx?CatId=Receivers
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Yeah no i dont. Two things.

First: we are comparing one low end receiver to another. If you think the $300 denon sounds way better than the $400 onyo, youre either a buffoon or the room correction and set up are different.

Second, when we are talking about high end receivers and amps there is also no diffence in sound. You can get people swearing they can tell one is better, but its bullshit. The difference is in power. A high end receiver may outdo a low end one because if its driving inefficient speakers, a certain amount of power may be required that a low end amp doesnt have. Because something costs 5000 bucks doesnt make it way better sounding. Does a gucci bag hold stuff way better than a target bought bag? If the speakers have optimal power being supplied and the same set up, they will sound the same. There has been tons of blind tests by supposed experts and they can never pick out the pricier amp under the same exact conditions.

There is speaker wire that costs 10,000 bucks made of gold and platinum. Some rich fucks swear by it. Guarantee it does absolutely nothing to improve sound. If youre rich im all for blowing your money on sweet looking vacuum amps and wire, but in a blind test you wont know the difference. The difference is in the speaker, the room, the correction software, and the amp having sufficient power for the speakers. Thats it.

You may need to rethink some things.
 
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nbean16 said:
...Second, when we are talking about high end receivers and amps there is also no difference in sound...You may need to rethink some things.
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I wish all products sounded the same, it would have saved me a ton of money. I currently run four complete 2 channel systems, three of which are vacuum tube based (tubes are sweet). My McIntosh MC402 amp sounds completely different than my Parasound A21 and both have enough power to light up a small city. An entire industry (hi-end audio) exists purely on the fact that different equipment sounds different. If it wasn't true, we would just all buy the cheapest amp and be done with it but it's just not that easy.
 
russ69 said:
I wish all products sounded the same, it would have saved me a ton of money. I currently run four complete 2 channel systems, three of which are vacuum tube based (tubes are sweet). My McIntosh MC402 amp sounds completely different than my Parasound A21 and both have enough power to light up a small city. An entire industry (hi-end audio) exists purely on the fact that different equipment sounds different. If it wasn't true, we would just all buy the cheapest amp and be done with it but it's just not that easy.
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Back in the day my Dad was a McIntosh man all the way.

Did it sound different?

Yeah, when the tubes started buzzing, no question.

Unless all your systems run the same speakers how can you really tell?

Not knocking you, I've been a pseudo audiophile all my life but never spent more than $1,200 on a pair of speakers as I've never really had the space to go hog wild.

I'm quite happy with my rather mundane Usher V602's and matching center channel, (B&W something or others in the back), DD15 Sub, (way too big for my room but what the hell), driven by a mid range Denon AVR that sounds better/cleaner than my old NAD AVR did which lost all its digital inputs and croaked.

Still use the simple NAD 7250PE stereo receiver I bought a million years ago though every day to drive my secondary system.

I always have music playing in the house, so no matter if you have a mega bucks system or something more pedestrian I say :thumbup
 
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