I'm helping a friend in choosing a Home Theatre receiver and would like any
input from those who know more about them then I do, since I haven't
considered them in 15 years or so.

We've narrowed it down to Mostly Yamaha units and a couple JVC and Kenwood
models

My pick would probably be the Yaman HTR 5890 or RXV1500.
Also in consideration are the JVC RX-D201S, and Kenwood VR9070.

All are in the $500.00 range. Any pros or cons that you know of?

Any prefernces?

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I'm helping a friend in choosing a Home Theatre receiver and would like any
input from those who know more about them then I do, since I haven't
considered them in 15 years or so.

We've narrowed it down to Mostly Yamaha units and a couple JVC and Kenwood
models

My pick would probably be the Yaman HTR 5890 or RXV1500.
Also in consideration are the JVC RX-D201S, and Kenwood VR9070.

All are in the $500.00 range. Any pros or cons that you know of?

Any prefernces?

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions". Please
don't help a friend.

Thanks for him.

Mickey dances around a subject he's embarrassed to broach.

All are in the $500.00 range. Any pros or cons that you know of?
Any prefernces?

Since you didn't tell us what your priorities are, we'll have to guess. My guess
is you want one that gets hot enough to cook some bugs quickly. For that
feature, Pioneer is the best. It throws out lots of heat. Just wrap your bugs in
foil and put them on top of the box. Shouldn't take more than 3 or 4 minutes to
crisp them up nicely.

George Middius wrote:
Mickey dances around a subject he's embarrassed to broach.

All are in the $500.00 range. Any pros or cons that you know of?
Any prefernces?

Since you didn't tell us what your priorities are, we'll have to guess. My guess
is you want one that gets hot enough to cook some bugs quickly. For that
feature, Pioneer is the best. It throws out lots of heat. Just wrap your bugs in
foil and put them on top of the box. Shouldn't take more than 3 or 4 minutes to
crisp them up nicely.


I've got a 100 watt 5 channel Pioneer. Doesn't get hot at all.

George is wrong again. But he's right on the priorities. On these
low/mid range receivers... its all about features... actually that even
applies on the high end surround. Anyway after going through them at
great length and deciding I didn't want to pay extra for any of the
bs...my receiver cost me $150 and works fine.
Setup was pretty easy and the thing isn't a foot and a half high. I've
seen a few that now allow individual channel eq settings and thought
that might be cool to better integrate mixmatched speakers but other
than that.. I haven't felt I wanted anything more.

ScottW

In , George Middius wrote :



Mickey dances around a subject he's embarrassed to broach.

All are in the $500.00 range. Any pros or cons that you know of?
Any prefernces?

Since you didn't tell us what your priorities are, we'll have to guess. My
guess is you want one that gets hot enough to cook some bugs quickly. For
that feature, Pioneer is the best. It throws out lots of heat. Just wrap
your bugs in foil and put them on top of the box. Shouldn't take more than
3 or 4 minutes to crisp them up nicely.

How lucky you are, 99% of bugs are biggers than Middius' balls.

Bon appétit... ;-)

"ScottW" wrote in message
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George Middius wrote:
Mickey dances around a subject he's embarrassed to broach.

All are in the $500.00 range. Any pros or cons that you know of?
Any prefernces?

Since you didn't tell us what your priorities are, we'll have to guess.
My guess
is you want one that gets hot enough to cook some bugs quickly. For that
feature, Pioneer is the best. It throws out lots of heat. Just wrap your
bugs in
foil and put them on top of the box. Shouldn't take more than 3 or 4
minutes to
crisp them up nicely.


I've got a 100 watt 5 channel Pioneer. Doesn't get hot at all.

George is wrong again. But he's right on the priorities. On these
low/mid range receivers... its all about features... actually that even
applies on the high end surround. Anyway after going through them at
great length and deciding I didn't want to pay extra for any of the
bs...my receiver cost me $150 and works fine.
Setup was pretty easy and the thing isn't a foot and a half high. I've
seen a few that now allow individual channel eq settings and thought
that might be cool to better integrate mixmatched speakers but other
than that.. I haven't felt I wanted anything more.

Mostly he wants as much power as he get for the money and something that
will handle all the decoding duties.

Personally, I like the Yamaha's due to reputation and the EQ feature.

The RXV's seem to have the most features and at least 100wpc X 7.

NYOB123 wrote




I'm helping a friend in choosing a Home Theatre receiver and would like any
input from those who know more about them then I do, since I haven't
considered them in 15 years or so.

We've narrowed it down to Mostly Yamaha units and a couple JVC and Kenwood
models

My pick would probably be the Yaman HTR 5890 or RXV1500.
Also in consideration are the JVC RX-D201S, and Kenwood VR9070.


Why don't you ask your friend to do a DBT on those. Get a billy club handy as
you sit behind him in his house trying to differentiate any perceptible
differences
between each pair. Then strike him on the back of his head each time he claim
to
hear perceivable differences between the two. Continue whacking him on the
head in ascending level of perplexity until such point as he tell you that he
can no
longer distinguish any appreciable differences between each pair. Repeat the
procedure on the other brands above. Then advice him to set aside all the
money he save and buy more cd records.


All are in the $500.00 range.


What difference does it makes ?


Any pros or cons that you know of?


None that he needs to know. Tell him that DBT will tell him the truth and
will prove that all the above sound the same.


Any prefernces?


Well, just tell him that DBT will prove that any preferences he may have
does not exist because, like you, he's delusional who prefers his bugs
extra-crispy.

nyob123 wrote




Mostly he wants as much power as he get for the money and something that
will handle all the decoding duties.

Personally, I like the Yamaha's due to reputation and the EQ feature.

The RXV's seem to have the most features and at least 100wpc X 7.


Forget about these so-called reputation and preferences over features
on these brands etc... etc.. Tell your friend DBT is the way to go.
**** brands.

Tell your friend that all the above are similar in value and were, in fact,
assembled by the same orang-utang on the loose somewhere in the city
of Pyong-Yang.

"EddieM" wrote in message
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nyob123 wrote




Mostly he wants as much power as he get for the money and something that
will handle all the decoding duties.

Personally, I like the Yamaha's due to reputation and the EQ feature.

The RXV's seem to have the most features and at least 100wpc X 7.


Forget about these so-called reputation and preferences over features
on these brands etc... etc.. Tell your friend DBT is the way to go.
**** brands.

Tell your friend that all the above are similar in value and were, in
fact,
assembled by the same orang-utang on the loose somewhere in the city
of Pyong-Yang.

Thank you for that revealing bit of your family history.

"EddieM" wrote in message
...

NYOB123 wrote




I'm helping a friend in choosing a Home Theatre receiver and would like
any input from those who know more about them then I do, since I haven't
considered them in 15 years or so.

We've narrowed it down to Mostly Yamaha units and a couple JVC and
Kenwood models

My pick would probably be the Yaman HTR 5890 or RXV1500.
Also in consideration are the JVC RX-D201S, and Kenwood VR9070.


Why don't you ask your friend to do a DBT on those.

Why? As long as they aren't clipping they should sound the same, right?

Get a billy club handy as
you sit behind him in his house trying to differentiate any perceptible
differences
between each pair.

Damn, your DBT's are way tougher than regular ones.

Then strike him on the back of his head each time he claim
to
hear perceivable differences between the two.

That would be silly, since the idea is to TRY and find differences.

Continue whacking him on the
head in ascending level of perplexity until such point as he tell you that
he can no
longer distinguish any appreciable differences between each pair. Repeat
the
procedure on the other brands above. Then advice him to set aside all the
money he save and buy more cd records.

So, you think it's wrong to save money if something costs less but sounds
the same as something more expensive? You really are an idiot.


All are in the $500.00 range.


What difference does it makes ?

There are differences in features.

Any pros or cons that you know of?


None that he needs to know. Tell him that DBT will tell him the truth and
will prove that all the above sound the same.


Very likely.

Any prefernces?


Well, just tell him that DBT will prove that any preferences he may have
does not exist because, like you, he's delusional who prefers his bugs
extra-crispy.


Of course preferences exist, they just don't have that much to do with
actual performance.

He finally decided on a Pioneer VSX-1015TXK.

Less than $ 425.00 including shipping.