Well,

I was gone for the last week, and while and while I was gone, the wife was watching TV during an intense storm. According to her, as she was reaching to turn the system off, the lights flickered, and a horrible sound came from the speakers. After that, the sound was all messed up.

I have a sony str v333es receiver which delivers sound to a set of mirage frx speakers. After coming back home and experimenting, I've decided the problem is with the receiver, not the speakers, because the sound distortions are different for left and right, but are speaker independant. I assume the amps in at least the fronts are blown (the center and surrounds may be slightly affected, but I can't tell right now).

I paid $600 for this reciever 3-4 years ago, and can't decide if it makes more sense to try to fix the problems (headaches and possibly a lot of money) or simply replace the reciever and count it as a loss. What do you guys think?

mania