Which Receiver Is Recommended And Where To Sell???

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Originally Posted by horror4life245

I have a Yamaha HTR-6230 and Best Buy lied through their teeth about all the features, which turned out to be a lot of false statements. I want a new receiver that can HANDLE being loud. I have a small room and shouldn't be hard. I was looking at the Yamaha RX-V465. If anyone has it or has had it, is it worth the money? Is there another receiver you guys recommend? I'm looking for one that isn't too expensive, I guess one around $200 to close to $400. Please be specific and tell me about why I should or should not get the Yamaha RX-V465. I require quite a few HDMI in and one HDMI out and it has to support the newer codecs such as DTS-HD, etc..

Also, I want to sell my Yamaha HTR-6230, and it came in a home theater in a box with a subwoofer, 2 front speakers, 2 rear speakers, and a center speaker. Anyone know where I could sell these and get some money to put towards a new receiver and speakers? All of the speakers are in PERFECT condition, but I LOVEEEE it to be loud and I feel that they will blow if I turn it up too loud. The receiver is in MINT condition and I have had this system since late summer.

Please help!!! Thanks!!!!

P.S. I'm kind of new to being picky with sound, so I need some help here. Thanks!

howdy, my first and future recommendation to you and to everyone, don't go and buy anything that you don't already know about; sales people will tell you anything and more times than not they are wrong. Most of the things you asked should be answered by you, not us. I mean that you know the size room you have, it won't need a high powered system to fill it with sound. you need to do your research, narrow it down, feel free to give say two items and state why you like each of them and ask for opinions on those two. i'm just saying more times than not with a little personal elbow grease you can answer and solve most of your problems.

with that said, for a small room you won't need a lot of power. i can't speak for the efficiency of the speakers that came with your HTiB but perhaps you could do with more efficient speakers, for example Klipsch make incredibly high efficiency rated speakers some as high as 97db but most are 90db+.

you didn't mention what you are connecting to the receiver (by brand & model) this will help in knowing how your getting sound and video to the receiver, i.e. do you want or need to do analog multichannel in? you mentioned you want a receiver that does (decodes) HD codecs, that's what you should be looking for.

how many HDMI's do you want? things like that.

you mentioned the word loud, what do you mean loud. for a small room you really don't need that much power to make it "loud" did you mean ear busting loud? is it possible that the "speaker levels" are turned down low on the existing receiver, have you checked that. if the levels are down on the individual channels, the signal you get to each speaker will be lower and even turning up the volume knob will not necessarily give the desired results.

your current receiver will not decode HD codecs it will pass audio straight through and it has analog multichannel inputs so if you have a blu-ray player that decodes HD codecs onboard you can send it out either LPCM via HDMI or via analog multichannel and you will get analog sound.

part of the beauty of this hobby we all love is the research for knowledge about things, individual research. I think if you put some time in and do your homework on this and other sites you will come to a very good couple of choices of what will work for you then come back and let us know the whats & why's of the particular gear you are thinking about and it will be better for you and us. this way we aren't out doing the work for you but giving our opinion on what you have done your research on.

i know that was not what you wanted to hear, but in the long run, you will be better equipted and more knowledgable about things and you won't go through what you ended up going through at BB or any place else physical or online. it's gotta start with you. so, please don't take my post the wrong way as negative because it's not intended to be negative.

best of luck, let us know what you have narrowed it down to and we will give our opinions on it; i know i will.