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icycalm wrote:Can someone give me a hand with picking a receiver for these things? I am a complete novice in this business, upgrading from the $400-to-$500 5.1 all-in-one Logitechs/Creatives/Klipsches for computer systems, so I've never had to think about receivers before. The main thing I am worried about is under- or overpowering the speakers and damaging them. I just spent the last 5 or 6 hours reading up threads and reviews, and I am further away from a decision than I was before I started research, so I would appreciate it if someone knowledgeable could take the decision off my hands so I can get some sleep. My number 1 candidate is the Sony STR-DN1040 because of how well it's been reviewed and its slew of connectivity options (many of which I plan to use). Would that be a good match? (Note that I am getting two sets of the bookshelf speakers for a 7.1 system.) Or what about a cheaper 7.1 option from Pioneer? They have so many models that seem so close together in terms of specifications that I think flipping a coin would be an easier way to reach a decision than to think :(
Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to give me.
The speaker set in question is the Pioneer SP-PK52FS, a 5.1 speaker system with an MSRP of $549 which every audiophile on the internet seems to have been raving about for a number of months. It apparently blows away speakers several times more expensive, and the only way to get something better from it is to spend something like $2,000+.
http://www.digitaltrends.com/speaker-sy ... fs-review/
http://www.audioholics.com/tower-speake ... -sp-pk52fs
By ordering two sets of the bookshelf speakers you can turn the 5.1 system into 7.1, which is what I have done. And that brings us to the receiver, and my post above (in a thread, by the way, in which the person who designed the speakers has also posted. That seems like a really cool site).
So my current receiver of choice, as I mentioned, is the Sony STR-DN1040, currently offered on Amazon.es for 572 euros:
http://www.amazon.es/gp/product/B00CBXPN7Y/
I picked it because it was awarded Product of the Year on this website:
http://www.whathifi.com/review/sony-str-dn1040
So now I am waiting to see what those dudes will say before I pull the trigger on the receiver and call it a fucking day. I stayed up all night reading about this stuff, and I swear I understand less now than I did before.