Steve Winkler
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- Jan 13, 2000
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I'm still in the throws of upgrading my receiver for my home theater. Thus far I've demoed the Marantz Sr7300, and the Yamaha Rx-V2300. Others on the list to perhaps try are the Sony Str-DA4ES (very hard to find in Calgary right now), and the Harman Kardon 325/525.
I think the Marantz I had could have been a defective unit as I wasn't all that impressed with it's performance. I've written of this in another post with some more details, but instead of trying another one, I picked up a Yamaha RX-V2300. It's been running in my HT for 4 days now and seems to perform well. Ample power, clean, clear sound with no hint of clipping or distortion. Very surprised how musical it is and HT performance is very good. The remote is kind of fat and not real ergonomic but works well and controls all my other components thru either pre-programmed functions, learned functions, or a combo of both. I'm only running 5.1 at the moment with this receiver capable of 6.1, but I wonder if I should go 7.1 for future-proofing a little extra and sound quality??
For whatever reason, HK is very expensive here in Calgary/Canada, i.e. AVR 325 MSRP here is $1499Can and the AVR 525 $1799Can. I have done a search or three here on the forum trying to discern the major differences between these two units, is it just the watts per channel or is there some bass management changes??
Another quick question for the Yamaha owners, is there any mode/soundfield to run the receiver in two channel full range only without the sub on? I can do it in a set-up menu, but a soundfield would be easier.
Thanks for any comments or input.
Steve
I think the Marantz I had could have been a defective unit as I wasn't all that impressed with it's performance. I've written of this in another post with some more details, but instead of trying another one, I picked up a Yamaha RX-V2300. It's been running in my HT for 4 days now and seems to perform well. Ample power, clean, clear sound with no hint of clipping or distortion. Very surprised how musical it is and HT performance is very good. The remote is kind of fat and not real ergonomic but works well and controls all my other components thru either pre-programmed functions, learned functions, or a combo of both. I'm only running 5.1 at the moment with this receiver capable of 6.1, but I wonder if I should go 7.1 for future-proofing a little extra and sound quality??
For whatever reason, HK is very expensive here in Calgary/Canada, i.e. AVR 325 MSRP here is $1499Can and the AVR 525 $1799Can. I have done a search or three here on the forum trying to discern the major differences between these two units, is it just the watts per channel or is there some bass management changes??
Another quick question for the Yamaha owners, is there any mode/soundfield to run the receiver in two channel full range only without the sub on? I can do it in a set-up menu, but a soundfield would be easier.
Thanks for any comments or input.
Steve