Yamaha or Marantz for new HT Recievers?
Hey all, I need to replace a failing Harman Kardon AVR-635. It was originally replaced with an Integra 30.3 and moved to another system but the front left channel stopped working.
As much as I liked the HK, I would have trouble buying another one for that reason as well as when it just started flaking out in my main system. May have just needed a processor reset but gave me a good reason to upgrade to the Integra with HDMI.
So now I want to replace the HK completely and trying to decide whether to get an inexpensive unit or go for something better than the Integra and move that to my secondary system.
So I have been looking at a few of the New Marantz units and the Yamaha Aventage units. I find the Integra to be a bit polite and maybe not the best for my Dynaudio 4ohm speakers. The HK had no issues driving them and I really liked it's auto setup over the Integra Audyssey but that won't be a determining factor.
I really don't have a price range but would like to stay at or under $800. I do want it to have Networking abilities.
What do you suggest and why over other units? Anything other than the two I have listed?