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Old 01-24-2009, 04:22 PM   #1
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Well todays the big day just got paid ready to buy my reciever, cant choose between

Pioneer VSX-1018TXH-K http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....=1199496527703

Pioneer VSX-01TXH http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....=1210290067489

onkyo 706 http://www.crutchfield.com/p_580TXS7...owAll=N&tp=179

onkyo 806 http://www.crutchfield.com/p_580TXS8...o%2b806&tp=179


I will be hooking them up to 4 Paradigm Titan monitors http://www.paradigm.com/en/paradigm/...1-2-4.paradigm

paradigm http://www.paradigm.com/en/paradigm/...1-3-4.paradigm

I just ant what ever is going to get me the best soundis there any major diffrence between these that im missing?
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To me there are only 2 choices, the Onkyo 806 and the Pioneer 01, personally, I like Pioneer better, so I would say Pioneer. Have you listened to them?
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buy from Amazon or 6ave.com and save yourself some money.
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Old 01-24-2009, 04:39 PM   #4
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To me there are only 2 choices, the Onkyo 806 and the Pioneer 01, personally, I like Pioneer better, so I would say Pioneer. Have you listened to them?

what would be the diffrence from these to the lower model ones
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Old 01-24-2009, 04:42 PM   #5
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Denon AVR-2809

coupon code: AFLAUD25


...would be my choice over those others.
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Denon AVR-2809

coupon code: AFLAUD25


...would be my choice over those others.

Why though what makes this better, thats what im trying to figure out.
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Why though what makes this better, thats what im trying to figure out.
if you go to thier main site and see the specs, you can compare and see pretty much every detail on whats different. power, connectivity, more hdmi inpputs, video processing, audio processing,.....
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The newer Onkyos are not that great. Go with one of your Pioneer choices or the Denon Crackin suggested.
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The newer Onkyos are not that great. Go with one of your Pioneer choices or the Denon Crackin suggested.
ya but the denon is kind of expensive
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ya but the denon is kind of expensive
Then consider the Denon AVR-1909 coupon code: AFLAUD25
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I just got the Pioneer VSX-01TXH on thursday and it
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Old 01-25-2009, 05:18 AM   #12
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http://www.6ave.com/shop/product.aspx?sku=PIOVSX91TXH is this a good reciever for the price,will i have the best sound decodings?
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yeah, that is a great price, and a great receiver. also PM Crackin, he could prolly get you a discount code for some extra savings.
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so its sunday bout to go to bestbuy narrowed it down to these 2 which would you pick http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....19129104&catId=
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Go for the Elite (imho), more bang for the buck.
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pioneer elite vsx91 save some money and buy it here.
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pioneer elite vsx91 save some money and buy it here.
coupon code: couponcabin
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Wow cracking thanks man that is good!!!im trying to see though real quick does that upconvert to 1080p .
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You Guys is 1080p up convert really a big thing??Is it really necessary
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Old 01-26-2009, 01:40 AM   #20
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what are you trying to up-convert?

...usually your TV would upscale anyway. (somewhat)
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