Best Reciever for HT (Under $500)

cfrizz

He should focus on making sure he is getting all he can out of his current speakers rather than starting from scratch with new speakers. He needs a better receiver with a seperate amp to make sure that happens.

Decide on which bells and whistles you have to have then pick the receiver that fits those needs, just make sure it has preouts for a seperate amp.

My priority is and always will be music, so I couldn't care less about the latest & greatest hdmi this that and the other hookup. My prepro doesn't have them but it sounds great with music & does just fine with the hookups it does have for my connections.

Conradicles

Cathy you forgot to say he needs 200 watts per channel.:cheesygrin:

acmf74

A little bit more thatn you wanted to spend BUT it an awesome AVR. I have the below Adcom it it ran a full LSi set-up without breaking a sweat.

It has all the inputs and power you would need.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Adcom-GFR-700HD-Surround-Sound-Receiver-HDMI-/300656603272?pt=Receivers_Tuners&hash=item460087b088

blueboxer

I am still waffling on the SC, it is a great price, but I might want to do a SC-55 for the new amp section to see how it works with my Mythos setup and use my current SC-35 as a pre for upstairs. If you are interested, I would snatch that puppy up before I make up my mind.

bansheesho

I have found something else that throws a wrench in the machine...

That area above the mantle is only about 16.5" deep which means that any of the nicer recievers would hang 2 inches or more over the mantle.. this will not do so I am going to have to figure out some kind of cabinet or something.

Sherardp

Snag that SC05 up and for a stand check out VTI.

jbooker82

EndersShadow wrote: »

I am going to suggest you look at a AVR with Audyssey MultiEQ XT (like the Onkyo 709, or Marantz models).

x2. I would love to have an Onkyo that had the MultiEQ XT32.

EndersShadow

jbooker82 wrote: »

x2. I would love to have an Onkyo that had the MultiEQ XT32.

Agreed but in the OPs range XT32 isn't possible. XT is

jbooker82

bansheesho wrote: »

I should also mention that in my current setup the front channel is bi-amped so I am trying to feed them as much as I can.

That is what they want you to think that is happening but your really taking 2 steps back. When you have them hooked up your not given the towers any more power, because the towers have been divided up in to 2 seperate ciruits. One for the mids, and highs, and the other one for the bass.

So on paper your sending 75w to the mids, and tweeter, and 75w to the woofers, not 150w to the whole speaker. When you run extra channels your drop the power rating per channel because your now driving more channels. Your Onkyo is rated at 75 watts per channel with only 2 channels driven. When your powering a 5 channel system the actual power drops, then when powering a 7 channel system it falls of even harder. The newer Onkyo's (TX-NRxx9's) hold their power ratings much better, and dont really fall off near as bad as the older ones.

bansheesho

Ok... I am super excited!! Found a local Pioneer SC-25 that I am picking up on Saturday...

Since I am going to have to move the reciever location due to its depth, what gauge (or any oter specs like material) speaker wire would you all recomend? I was thinking of doing 12 gauge with naner clips

chumlie

Congrats on your reciever. 12 gauge is fine ( all copper is best ). I think MIT ic's are still on sale if ya need em. Your gonna be please with that Pioneer i'm sure.