Best Receiver?

Luxman 1120 A is a beast by any measure!  This would drive Apogees!  The tuner, terrific.  Only downside were the speaker terminals which were push pins accommodating perhaps 16 gauge.  Captured power cord.  Other than those small deficits, a real winner.

The last I read at The Tuner Information Website, Accuphase T-1000 - Kenwood L-02T - Sansui TU-X1, are the tops.

Big money though, and I’ve never seen a North American version of the Accuphase.

I started with a Rotel RT-2100: hard to find, but sounds excellent.

Then - Rotel RHT-10: took me almost three years to find one, but sounds fantastic, fine soundstage, black as night in the silences.

I can 2nd the Outlaw Audio RR2160MKll (there main office is 10 minutes away in Norton Ma)  I also had to deal with there customer technical service and there 2nd to none.  Took care of me out of warranty. I use it mainly for LP records but do listen to Internet Radio from time to time. Has Ethernet or Wifi.  Have a Blutooth dongle hooked into it for my phone but never use it. The Phono stage is excellent and absolutely love the Analog Bass Management I have one of there Subwoofers to. I use to be a Harman Kardon guy in the Late 80's early 90's but they have went down hill years ago when they went with there "green" Amps.  I think there out of the market for AV Amplifiers and stereo Amps.

Krell 300r.

I have two suggestions based on my experience - The first is my MAC6700.  250 watts per channel and a really nice DAC, analogue inputs and beautiful sounding 250 watt McIntosh amps inside.  I use it in a hybrid home theater setup where I use Passthrough mode to power the main L and R of my home theater system and I couldn't be happier.  I do RARELY use the tuner, as my streamer has "Tunein" radio which is a streaming app that pulls the digital signals from my local stations and also a ton of radio markets across the country.

And this will be controversial here - but I just got an Onkyo RZ-50 for my living room and - WOW.  Brilliant for home theater and really, really nice 2 channel as well.  DIRAC needs to come standard on more two channel or 2.1 systems in my opinion.  Huge benefits.  

Happy shopping!