Marantz SR7000

[arcadeforest]

First off let me start by saying I'm currently just listening to my bluray's over the t.v. speakers. I know its blasphemy to do this but have not got around to working on the audio end of everything. Life has been very busy with the kids and work, etc. To add to that I would consider myself a newbie when it comes to audio in general and really have not had a big interest in it until coming to this site a few months back.

With that said I have a question concerning the Marantz SR7000 receiver. My lovely wife came home with one today for me. She went to an estate sale and paid a whole $20 for it (the last thing I expected her to come home with). It looks brand new, everything powers up, etc. It did not have a remote though (how big of a deal is this?). She figured for $20 dollars if I could do something with it great, if not I could try and sell it on Ebay or something.

My question is this receiver worth throwing a system together with (or is it just to old and out of date to mess with). Maybe start off with a decent pair front speakers and work from their. Currently I'm running a bluray player, xbox 360, directv, and a windows media center through my tv. I'm fine with just using the Marantz just with the bluray player (audio only - run video through hdmi to tv if thats possible?). Anyway any advice on this would be appreciated.

[Travis]

Originally Posted by arcadeforest

First off let me start by saying I'm currently just listening to my bluray's over the t.v. speakers. I know its blasphemy to do this but have not got around to working on the audio end of everything. Life has been very busy with the kids and work, etc. To add to that I would consider myself a newbie when it comes to audio in general and really have not had a big interest in it until coming to this site a few months back.

With that said I have a question concerning the Marantz SR7000 receiver. My lovely wife came home with one today for me. She went to an estate sale and paid a whole $20 for it (the last thing I expected her to come home with). It looks brand new, everything powers up, etc. It did not have a remote though (how big of a deal is this?). She figured for $20 dollars if I could do something with it great, if not I could try and sell it on Ebay or something.

My question is this receiver worth throwing a system together with. Maybe start off with a decent pair front speakers and work from their. Currently I'm running a bluray player, xbox 360, directv, and a windows media center through my tv. I'm fine with just using the Marantz just with the bluray player (audio only - run video through hdmi to tv if thats possible?). Anyway any advice on this would be appreciated.

Awesome find.

You may need to pick up a remote for the graphical user interface (GUI), so you can adjust speaker distance, level, turn on/off speakers that you have/don't have.

When I started my system, I bought two bookshelves to start with that I planned to move to the back when I got the cash for towers. A cheap way to start, and can use them to create a phantom center.

I fell in love with the bookshelves, and they were big enough for my space, so I kept them and bought an identical pair for the back.

[LordoftheRings]

That Marantz SR7000 A/V Receiver at the time listed for $799.
It is an excellent receiver and you could certainly build a nice system around it.
> It has a multichannel analog input, so you can take advantage of the new high res audio codecs from a Blu-ray player that has multichannel analog output.

* Here's a short review of it: @ http://hometheatermag.com/receivers/19/

Thank your wife for it! &