Need a new AV receiver

I chose the Arcam AVR350, having auditioned the comparable Pioneer Elite, Denon, and Yamaha receivers. Yamaha 2700 was impressive, but the DETAIL of the AVR350 won me over. Dialogue throught the center sounded clear and PRESENT. Just my opinion.

You mentioned nothing about your room, setup, acoustics, or speakers and associated equipment in the system. It's like recommending clothes without mentioning the persons dimmensions and environment in which they'll be wearing it!Denon 3806, sounds good for you, with superb room EQ (most rooms are really gunna need help acoustically) plus really really efficient Klipsch speakers in your system (the Denon smooths top end a bit, for brighter gear/speakers), should sound good for and HT receiver setup. Otherwise, you must definitely consider setting ALL RECEIVERS to "small", for the speakers, and preferably adding an external amp for the speakers!! Receivers are pretty weak dynamically for amp section, even preamp section often. Good luck

hey guys, dont forget mcintosh mht200, or the135 and mc206. I gave the denons, marantz, and acrams a try but compared to the mc, they didnt come close in the sound. The only one I like almost as much was the b&k 507, great buy for the price. I run dali helicons with my mht200, two 400for the l&r, the c200 for my cent. and w200 for my rears. And the mc has no problem making these puppys singe. they are rated 4om too. Also the stero chnl is really good, sometimes as we all know the av amps sometimes lack in two chnle sound.Best of luck with what ever you get and enjoy.