Pioneer VSX-21 TXH elite

[Steve]

Originally Posted by dg5150

Correct me if I am wrong, but Pioneer does not honor the warranty for Elite products bought online anywhere. Also you should Google "click for digital review" - bad reviews online. Be careful.

Correct. NO dealer is authorized to sell Elite products online. You can get around that with certain dealers by calling and ordering over the phone.

[thePope666]

Yes I just read that on the Pioneer website. The web site in my original post offers a 4 yr warranty for $69 so i'll probably go with that.

[dg5150]

Originally Posted by thePope666

Yes I just read that on the Pioneer website. The web site in my original post offers a 4 yr warranty for $69 so i'll probably go with that.

I would read some of the reviews for clickfordigital before you decide to do it. "The cheap comes out expensive in the end" comes to mind. On the web page I saw, there was one positive review out of 23. Almost all of the negative reviews were for orders that were charged but never shipped/rec'd.

[thePope666]

Originally Posted by dg5150

I would read some of the reviews for clickfordigital before you decide to do it. "The cheap comes out expensive in the end" comes to mind. On the web page I saw, there was one positive review out of 23. Almost all of the negative reviews were for orders that were charged but never shipped/rec'd.

Oh wow! you're right they scammed a bunch of people. good thing I posted this question

any suggestions where to buy this receiver for a decent price?

[RAZGRIZ-1]

You can get the canadian version of the VSX-21 here: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B002USVKFY/ref=ord_cart_shr?_encoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v= glance

They are identical, except the VSX-9040TXH does not have the ELITE faceplate.

[Big N' Tasty]

It is a Great receiver by the way.......

[thePope666]

Any advise on which speakers sound best with this receiver?

[Blu-Dog]

Originally Posted by thePope666

Any advise on which speakers sound best with this receiver?

Think over your budget first...Klipsch has some excellent models that work well with it. Also Definitive Technologies.

Both are very efficient, so you'll have tons of "headroom" in term of power output.

But there's lots out there, some of it very good indeed. Others will give suggestions, too.

But what's your budget, again?

[ReggaetonSalsero]

Originally Posted by thePope666

Any advise on which speakers sound best with this receiver?

I recently bought that vsx 21 from value electronics for $460. bucks NEW and they are a pioneer authorized dealer. I also bought klipsch reference series rf 52 fronts, rc-52 center and 2 rs-42 surrounds. To me it sounds perfect. I don't know what everyone is talking about as far as BRIGHTER sound. Before this, i had a denon 4308ci with a polk cs1 center and 4 polk monitor 50's all around and it didn't sound as good as my current setup. But that's just MY experience. It sounds so clear and those speakers are STRONG, much stronger than i thought it would be and i'm not even using a subwoofer as i sold my a2-300 and this setup sounds like i have sub. Only issue is i can't lower the bass part of the sound from the receiver or speakers. But the receiver does look very nice....the remote isn't a learning remote at all like the denon remote. I also had that onkyo....actually had the 605, 606, 805 and the 902.....ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL of them got too hot and overheated and gave me some kind of issue. The yamaha's, the denon and now this pioneer, all of these never gave me overheating or hot issues and sound better to me. But again, that's just MY experience i'm telling u about. Others will have different experiences ofcourse

[blurayas11]

Originally Posted by dg5150

Correct me if I am wrong, but Pioneer does not honor the warranty for Elite products bought online anywhere. Also you should Google "click for digital review" - bad reviews online. Be careful.

Originally Posted by fireman325

Correct. NO dealer is authorized to sell Elite products online. You can get around that with certain dealers by calling and ordering over the phone.

dg5150 and fireman325 are both right. Here is the info from Pioneer site:
NOTE: Pioneer does NOT authorize any dealers to sell Elite-branded products on the Internet (only in-store sales are permitted). Therefore, any Elite-branded product purchased on the Internet is NOT authorized, which means that it does NOT carry the manufacturer's limited warranty and does not qualify for any manufacturer's rebate.