I have a Harman-Kardon AVR 146 that I bought new in the fall on sale for $268 Canadian (about $215 U.S.). At the time I was not sure how deep I wanted to get into home theatre and wanted to spend more of my budget on speakers. Running six KEF speakers now, including a subwoofer- things sound pretty good to me. I don’t need to crank it up too much to get the sound level I desire. I listen to HD T.V. and DVDs (often music DVDs). I don’t have Blu-ray yet but probably will by Christmas. I don’t listen to the stereo (AM/FM) much and only listen to CDs sporadically. No game playing on the Panasonic 42” plasma television. Room is 17 ft by 10.
The AVR 146 has:
40 Watts per channel or 30 with surround mode
Sampling upconversion to 96 kHz
<.07% THD
Dolby Digital
Prologic 2
DTS
DTS 96/24
DTS Neo 6
5-Channel Stereo
2 HDMI inputs, one output
HDMI connections for video only, only can switch HDMI data
But am I missing something? I hear people raving about their $1000+ receivers. What will that buy me that I don’t already have? And whatever that “something” is that I am missing, is it worth spending another $700 more than what I paid for my receiver?
The AVR 146 has:
40 Watts per channel or 30 with surround mode
Sampling upconversion to 96 kHz
<.07% THD
Dolby Digital
Prologic 2
DTS
DTS 96/24
DTS Neo 6
5-Channel Stereo
2 HDMI inputs, one output
HDMI connections for video only, only can switch HDMI data
But am I missing something? I hear people raving about their $1000+ receivers. What will that buy me that I don’t already have? And whatever that “something” is that I am missing, is it worth spending another $700 more than what I paid for my receiver?
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