[drew_wallner]

Recently lost my faithful Pioneer receiver to a water bottle. Don't ask.


While shopping for a replacement, I was about to just pick up the most featureless home theater receiver Pioneer currently makes when I stopped and thought wait a second...


When I bought my last receiver, I had all kinds of crazy hoopla hooked up to it. However now my HT is a separate room from my videogames. The only source plugged into the receiver is a DVD player. In the future, perhaps an HTPC, but in lieu of not in addition to the DVD player. I should also mention we have no cable, satellite, or even antenna TV. I'm serious, just one source.


All the affordable $200 or so receivers I see when I shop have tons of inputs for other audio and video devices. They have similuated surround modes, they have "midnight" compression modes, they have radio tuners, all kinds of things I don't need.


All I wanna do is take a single digital input, decode it, convert it to analog, make it loud, and send it out with very little total THD to my five speakers and sub (line level being preferable for the sub).


So, what do the experts think? Budget is close to $200 if possible.

 

[11427]

Ya know, I did a similar post a week or two ago. About all the useless features that are included on all receivers. My thought is more money spent on quality and less on features. The consensus seemed to be that I am the only one that doesn't care for 32 dsp's, dual room, dual sorce etc. etc,.. so now I guess there are two of us. Now that there are two of us, do you think we'll have enough clout to make the manufacturer's take notice? Lots of clean power, and very few features! ;-)

 

[tubeguy44]

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Originally posted by 11427 .. so now I guess there are two of us. Now that there are two of us, do you think we'll have enough clout to make the manufacturer's take notice? Lots of clean power, and very few features! ;-)

there are products like that out there......


they are called integrated amplifiers.....


but not for $200....

 

[11427]

Do you know of any 5 - 7 channel A/V recievers with lots of clean power and very few features?

 

[tubeguy44]

i would look at the lower line /entry level pioneer receivers......


the vsx-412DK lists for $275 so the street price would be less than that...


100 watts x 5 channels....


here's the specs...

http://pioneerelectronics.com/pna/pr...etailComponent


cheers!

 

[Jam Man flimflam]

Try NAD receivers if you want clean power and an extremely limited number of useless features.