would B&W work with cheap japanese recievers?


I am trying to upgrade an old Yamaha HT receiver, 85Wx5 with equally cheap speakers.

Don't want to buy an upmarket receiver yet as they generally don't offer HDMI switching. But would like to get started with speakers, like two front B&W 700 series.

Does this make sense? Or should I upgrade the receiver/speakers togethter.
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Showing 1 response by cemoore

No, I doubt you would realize any meaningful sonic improvement by switching your Yamaha receiver for another receiver. Yamaha receivers are pretty good.

However, you could realize a heap of meaningful sonic improvement by taking that $1K-2K and upgrading to the 804S speakers. Your Yamaha would drive them just fine. Also a $500 DVD player need not be a weak link, in video or audio. For example the Denon 2910 is a terrific player.