Your opinion of the h/k avr 247?

[lojack1976]

I got mine from the Ebay store and I love it. I managed to get it for $220 shipped at the time. The good thing about buying from the Ebay Harman store is that you still get a one year warranty from them. I'm using this receiver in place of the Onkyo 605 that I now have in the bedroom and I was totally amazed at how much power this thing really outputs. The sound difference is night and day also...this is a much warmer sound than the Onkyo. I don't think you will be disappointed at all.

One thing I will say is that the auto calibration didn't work very well for me so I had to manually set up everything. It seemed to measure distances pretty well but it set the speaker levels all over the place, and after multiple tries I just said the hell with it and did it manually. The end result was still very good. I also had to lower the sub output a lot. The setup menu is pretty straightforward and easy to use. It may be worth it to you to spend more on a 354...I don't know, but for the money the 247 was a great a deal and it does everything that I need it to. Keep in mind that this receiver initially sold for $500 when it was released. All I can say is that I will probably buy Harman again in the future since the sound quality and power is very impressive.