I worked at Best Buy Magnolia for a few months and got to compare all of their AVRs with my reference recordings on B&W 804s. The only receiver that approached the sound quality of my $25k home system was Yamaha, and it wasn’t close. I’d assume Anthem would sound even better but I wasn’t able to compare that. Think of it this way — Marantz is warm and mushy sounding while Onkyo, Denon, Adcom pretty much sound the same. Yamaha is just simply at a higher level IME. I didn’t expect this, but it was very clear to hear. Plus, they make the most reliable AVRs on the market, which is a nice bonus. Just my experience FWIW.
Marantz vs Denon
Hello,
I know this has been argue to death whether to get multiple dedicate amps or just go with a multi-channel amp with a good pre-amp. Or just combine them as in Marantz, Denon; and Yamaha to name a few. My question is a pursuit of comprimise between musicality, movies, and still some umph when needed?
55" Samsung HDTV; Rotel 985 Pre and RMB 975 (5) channel amp, Small Paradigm LRC 110 series with surrounds and a SVS PB-1000 and and Def Tec 10" subs
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