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Seeking Streaming Receiver Recommendations

Helping friends who are NOT audiophiles, but have a pair of SPICA TC-50 speakers (specs below).  They want a receiver (real FM radio), want to be able to stream spotify and maybe some other services, want to be able to throw content from their phones via bluetooth or airplay.  New receivers seem to have all of this, but what has good sound and enough power for the Spicas?  Crutchfield has Yamaha (Class D) and Integra (class not listed).  If anyone has looked into this, please share recommendations.  Thanks, Peter

SPICA TC-150 SPECS:
Two-way, stand-mounted loudspeaker. Drive-units: 1" soft-dome tweeter, 6.5" pulp-cone woofer. Low-frequency alignment: sealed-box with Q=0.78. Crossover frequency: 2kHz. Crossover: high-pass slope, approximately first-order, 6dB/octave; low-pass slope, fourth-order, 24dB/octave, Bessel; both drivers connected with the same polarity. Frequency response: 60Hz-17kHz -3dB. Sensitivity: 84dB/W/m. Nominal impedance: 4 ohms (3.6 ohms minimum at 4kHz). Amplifier requirements: 25-100W. Maximum power handling: 50W continuous, 100W peak.

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I had a friend just like this. "I'm NOT an audiophile!" 

Okay. Whatever. 

So what I told him, go to a few stores, listen to a few things. Listen to some stuff that you know you can easily afford. Listen to some more expensive stuff. Then keep going until you find something you really like but know for damn sure your wife would never let you get no matter how much you want it.

Much to my surprise he actually did this.

So okay. Next step is, you go back and listen to the three best, one from each category- cheap, affordable, dream on- only this time with your wife, and you bring along a CD of her favorite music. And you never play anything but HER favorite music.

Well of course, as predicted, the wife was pushing him to buy the best, most expensive, and she even told him, "We are not going to spend our time listening to that other crap!" 

So what did we learn? "Audiophile" is a dirty word. Duh. I mean, look around. Music, however, people will pay a lot for.

You and your friends are well-advised to consider the speakers they have now as a albatross around their necks. They should go and listen.
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