Your current choice for audio receiver?

Denon is perhaps the best quality of the larger market brands (sell hundreds of thousands of products per year or more) in terms of features, performance, functions, power output, and innovation.

hope this helps!! I love my Onkyo TX-SR703! onkyo 1000, is a cool receiver for future compatability, but 901 is good enough for me. Well, I just had to retire my Yamaha RX-V1. It was $3500 new and I loved it. It was about 6 years old. And I was recently in the market for a new receiver. Due to the arrival of children, my budget was dramtically lowered to max $1000. I researched all the major brands and totally ignored SOny because they make great TVs but their receivers are horrible.

I was looking at Yamaha, Onkyo and Denon. I also looked at an integra and NAD. The guy at the theater store had me listen to the NAD and integra back to back and then inserted a low end Sony ES model. The SOny ES blew them both away. The ES line is much nicer than the regular Sony garbage at Best Buy and Circuit City. I went against my better judgement and ended up buying the Sony ES.

And I have to say, set-up was a breeze. I had the thing fully hooked up in just 3 hours, levels balanced for all 7 speakers, etc. It also has Zone 2 and 3 out which is perfect for my set-up.

I was just like you and now I own a Sony.... and I am quite happy with it.

Caveat: I have only had the reciever for 2 weeks..so I am still tweaking little things but so far it has been perfect!!! You may want to consider the following:

Emotiva Receivers: www. av123.com

Anthem Separates: www. anthemav.com

This is a difficult choice given all the brands!

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