re: Onkyo, HK, Denon or Yamaha

I looked at Marantz before I bought my Yamaha.

For me, the Yamaha was the best bang for my buck.

The Onkyo issue has been fixed, however the new models just hit the shelves. Waiting to see what issues I get with these.

I bought the ONKYO TX-NR609 3 years ago. It has 5 HDMI ports on the back, and 1 on the front.

I had 1 issue with it, and it was because one of my speaker cables had a break in it, and was causing the unit to shut down if I turned it up to loud. It told me which speaker was having the issue, and once I reran the speaker cable, I haven't had any issues.

It's easy to setup, and calibrate the speakers. I have a 7.2 setup and it sounds great.

This is my second Onkyo, and the only reason I upgraded was because I wanted HDMI switching. I still use the old onkyo in the other room.

I have the Denon AVR E300 5.1 in my media room and it rocks ballz. it was so intiuitive and easy to set up... nice configurability and does everything I need. nice price at under 4hundo (not including speakers)

all are good but if you are a moderate user I would say

Onkyo number 1 by far

Yamaha

Denon is great, but most complicated

HK

What kind of Paradigm fronts? All of these brands seem a bit cheap for a solid set of their Studio series. You need cleaner/better amplification, not more random features. Your amp should cost as much as your speakers, not counting for the DAC.

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Denon most complicated

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the older models were...I"m the dumbest in teh world when it comes to this stuff and I set up the AVRE300 with ease. its so intuitive.