Personally, honestly (from years of experience with most all lines of receivers, from Big Denon's, B&K's, and Marantz's, down to clean musical Outlaw's, Arcam, Nakamichi's, even cheap HK's or Yamaha's), especially with those speakers(a bit veiled and warm), many will work just fine for you. If you want best performance, you'll have to go more expensive. At that point, you'll might as well consdier Outlaw sepates for $1700 new! Otherwise, many of the $1000 range recievers will give similar performance for your aplication. I see nothing that's going to simply give you WAY BETTER PERFORMANCE!
Any differences would be suttle.
I could recommend the traditionally stronger Denon's and HK's to consider. Otherwise older flagship models used from the "bigger receiver lines"(Yam, Den, Marz, Whatever).
Still, again, I doubt you're finding anything special till you get into separates.
Good luck
Any differences would be suttle.
I could recommend the traditionally stronger Denon's and HK's to consider. Otherwise older flagship models used from the "bigger receiver lines"(Yam, Den, Marz, Whatever).
Still, again, I doubt you're finding anything special till you get into separates.
Good luck