Best Receiver under $600?

[Lord Nikon]

Now I mean it, when I say under $600 and shipped to my house!!! ! None of that if you can do $30 more... crap!

Denon
Onkyo
Yamaha
HK
Marantz

or other brands/models... I am running Ascend Acoustic speakers all around.... which receiver is the clearest, best value for the money out of these brands in my price range?

[bboy1234]

The yamaha htr5760 will be around 350 delivered well under 500. I just purchased one and it does the job for me supports up to 7.1. You can stab a yamaha htr5790 for 550.

[Lord Nikon]

I cannot find the HTR-5790 for $550 anywhere. This forum leans towards Yamaha soo much. Not certain why, but not complaining either.

[This Guy]

Basically any receiver from one of those brands you listed will be fine. Just pick the one that has all the features you need. You can get some refurbished Marantz receivers from accessories4less.com . You get a lot more receiver for your money because they are refurbished. Check out the sr-x300 and sr-x400 series, you'll get a good price on the X300 series because it's last years model.

-Joey

[Lord Nikon]

I just want the best bang for the buck. I am coming off a technics a/v receiver I got in a HTIB set back in 1998. Anything is a step up, so I set a price limit to adhere to.

[kexodusc]

The forum leans to Yamaha for a few reasons...Reliability is probably the biggest...Few would argue against Yamaha's track record, nobody in the under $1500 can seem to touch them. Though I woudl argue Denon and Marantz are close...H/K probably too.
Sound wise and feature wise, they're all pretty similar. Yamaha's known for their superior processing (DSP's), but I don't know many who buy a receiver for DSP's.

I'd take a good look at Denon's AVR-1804 as well as the Yamaha HTR-5760/RX-V650 or the 5790 if you can find it for $550.

The Denon and Yamaha's in that price range will make your Technics sound like it was sick.

[hershon]

Putting my preference to JVC aside, I believe the EdGein system will fit your needs nicely.

I cannot find the HTR-5790 for $550 anywhere. This forum leans towards Yamaha soo much. Not certain why, but not complaining either.

[Lord Nikon]

Putting my preference to JVC aside, I believe the EdGein system will fit your needs nicely.

I don't understand what you mean by this. Could you please clarify?

[hershon]

The EdGein receiver is made in Wisconsin and uses handmade parts.

I don't understand what you mean by this. Could you please clarify?

[Woochifer]

If you're willing to wait a couple of months, Yamaha's RX-V1400 and 2400 models will probably be discontinued soon if Yamaha sticks with their typical product replacement cycle. At that point, you can easily find the 1400 for under $600 and possible the 2400 as well. Last year, when the RX-V1300 and 2300 got discontinued, I saw the 2300 selling for $500 at some retail stores.

Just keep your eyes peeled on various news sites like Audio Revolution for new product announcements. Pretty much the minute Yamaha announces the new models, you need to move quickly since stores will have probably stopped stocking new units well before then and tried to let their inventory run as low as possible. If they still have a large stock of units in inventory, then they will resort to the outrageous deals.

If you can still find any of the Denon AVR-2803 units at a local store, that would be another discontinued model that you can probably deal way down on right now.

[Lord Nikon]

I had was using Doby Digital options selected and or DTS... but didn't have optical/digital cables, but was using regular RCA interconnects... would this perhaps cause the system not to sound too good?