I should have specified that this is not for a home theater set-up. Strictly audio, consisting of CDs and records played on a cheap Denon turntable purchased from Best Buy. I prefer my music on the "bass heavy" side. The combination of the Technics receiver with the speakers gave me great "bottom", and truthfully, I can't say for sure that the fact that the receiver finally crapped out had anything to do with the CS-3008s and/or playing music at an excessive volume as I tend to do when in our backyard. I will say that the Onkyo does not perform on a level with the old Technics. I picked up the Onkyo in the late 90s or early 2000s at Circuity City. I believe I paid somewhere in the neighborhood of $140 so that tells you I probably bought the equivalent of a toy. Model # for Technics receiver is SA-5370. For the Onkyo it's TX-8511.
