First, thank you very much for your input!

Here's what I use my current reciever (that I blew the left front out on) to do:
Play music
Home theater (I have speakers for 5.1)
Play music in up to 4 or 5 other rooms of the house (I currently have a Niles 4-out speaker selector with volume control)
Power my main front speakers, which are Acoustic Research AR-3a (4 ohms nominal)

What is the best reciever under $900 I can get to do all that? $900 is really pushing my budget a little.


I think I fried the left front out on my current ($300ish - rated to 6 ohms) reciever by using the 4-ohm AR-3As. So I'm looking to upgrade. I've been looking at the Denon AVR 3806 and the Denon AVR 2807, which seem like they'll do the trick, but I've read reviews that they are extremely user unfriendly and that Denon has horrible customer service.

So I'm doing my homework here and probably on some other similar discussion boards.

Thanks again!
Matt