Recommend me a Receiver ?

[BigAl87]

My personal choice would lean towards a Marantz. As good as RMS power is, ratings differ from one company to another and if you feel that your sound is tiny and would prefer something with serious kick, I strogly recommend looking into Marantz receivers.

Power Supplies on those are built like tanks and provide higher current with lower voltage for the same power making them really good candidates to run lower impedance speakers. Even a 8ohms speaker you will notice the difference in sound.

[BigAl87]

Originally Posted by BigAl87

My personal choice would lean towards a Marantz. As good as RMS power is, ratings differ from one company to another and if you feel that your sound is tiny and would prefer something with serious kick, I strogly recommend looking into Marantz receivers.

Power Supplies on those are built like tanks and provide higher current with lower voltage for the same power making them really good candidates to run lower impedance speakers. Even a 8ohms speaker you will notice the difference in sound.

You said ridiculously overpriced did not think that the smallest Marantz avr was selling for 1300$ AUS $ wow
600$ more expensive than Canada.

What about the AVR-260 from HK a bit over 800$ using High Current design with preouts. Something we don't find in North America, we have the 2600 but it ain't the same the 2600 is a bit more powerful but without preouts. Current is the Key here,higher wattage could be an indication of higer current but could also be higher voltage or combination of both.

You have to double wattage anyways to get 3db more.

I just hope that if you pull the trigger on an HK you don't get HDMI issues or other problems, but they are great sounding units warm and can make your speakers really rock

[lojack1976]

Originally Posted by BigAl87

My personal choice would lean towards a Marantz. As good as RMS power is, ratings differ from one company to another and if you feel that your sound is tiny and would prefer something with serious kick, I strogly recommend looking into Marantz receivers.

Power Supplies on those are built like tanks and provide higher current with lower voltage for the same power making them really good candidates to run lower impedance speakers. Even a 8ohms speaker you will notice the difference in sound.

See the 5004/6004 owner's thread over on avsforum. With the spontaneous death of these units you may rethink your position on Marantz right now, and especially since Marantz has treated buyers of these units very poorly by denying for months that there was even a problem and also not honoring warranties.

As for Harman, yeah they have their quirks but from everything I've read they've always bent over backwards to satisfy their customers and that goes a long way. I had a Harman that I recently sold and it was great. I'm not sure which models are suitable for 6ohm speakers, but I would imagine that the 3600 would be ideal, but its pricey. The 2600 may do the job as well.

[BigAl87]

Originally Posted by lojack1976

See the 5004/6004 owner's thread over on avsforum. With the spontaneous death of these units you may rethink your position on Marantz right now, and especially since Marantz has treated buyers of these units very poorly by denying for months that there was even a problem and also not honoring warranties.

As for Harman, yeah they have their quirks but from everything I've read they've always bent over backwards to satisfy their customers and that goes a long way. I had a Harman that I recently sold and it was great. I'm not sure which models are suitable for 6ohm speakers, but I would imagine that the 3600 would be ideal, but its pricey. The 2600 may do the job as well.

Well I own an HK-254 right now and yes they are great with warranty here they have a wide network of authorized repair shop that does the work for them instead of having to send the unit back to them.

I had and HDMI jack that was malfunctioning and was replace in very reasonable delays.

I was happy with the service. As for Marantz it really sucks though because they are great sounding units and wil put out trmendous performance when they work but if they have a hard time with warranty then a would stay away. It's not in the OP's price range anyways.

Thanks for the heads up on the Marantz.

1600 2600 and 3600 can all run 4ohms with the High Current design, the 2600 and 3600 are better with 35amps vs 25 for the 1600 but the OP is aussie and they sell the 260 instead of the 2600 and are slighly different as I stated but also run the same current as 2600 and 3600.

[lojack1976]

Originally Posted by BigAl87

Well I own an HK-254 right now and yes they are great with warranty here they have a wide network of authorized repair shop that does the work for them instead of having to send the unit back to them.

I had and HDMI jack that was malfunctioning and was replace in very reasonable delays.

I was happy with the service. As for Marantz it really sucks though because they are great sounding units and wil put out trmendous performance when they work but if they have a hard time with warranty then a would stay away. It's not in the OP's price range anyways.

Thanks for the heads up on the Marantz.

1600 2600 and 3600 can all run 4ohms with the High Current design, the 2600 and 3600 are better with 35amps vs 25 for the 1600 but the OP is aussie and they sell the 260 instead of the 2600 and are slighly different as I stated but also run the same current as 2600 and 3600.

Yeah, I wasn't too sure on the Harmans. I had a 247 myself and it was very good to me. I've never read anything on 6ohm and 4ohm performance on them, so I didn't want to recommend them without knowing for sure. Sounds like the 260 is a good option for him then.

And its too bad about Marantz as of late. They've had a very good reputation up until the problems with these recent receivers came up. They've had a good rep for service in the past, so it blew my mind when I kept reading that so many people were having problems and they wouldn't rectify the situation. Its really a shame.

[Justnate]

Thanks for the suggestions I will look into the HK and see what I can do.

[Justnate]

Okay so I found the HK on ebay heres the link http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Harman-Kardon...ht_2646wt_1074

[lojack1976]

That's the one, and it looks like you can get it under budget by making a reasonable offer. I'm guessing that the seller will accept about $50 less than the buy it now. Give it a shot.