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From: jgro@apldbio.com (Jeremy Grodberg)
Newsgroups: rec.audio.high-end
Subject: Receiver Recommendations?
Keywords: Receiver, request
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Date: 20 Mar 90 13:59:48 GMT
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Would anyone care to recommend a 25-watt receiver in the $350-$450 price
range, or is that not sufficiently high-end for this group?  My current
receiver has bitten the dust, and I need to replace it, but I haven't been
shopping for receivers for over 5 years, so I don't really have any ideas about
what to buy.  I have very efficient speakers, and a small living room, so
a solid 25-watts (with some headroom) will be plenty of power.  (Please no 
flames about receivers vs. tuners/amps/pre-amps)

Also, there used to be a significant price barrier that separated the best
of the low-end from the entry to the high end in audio equipment.  Many
years ago when I was looking at amplifiers it seemed that there was little
offered between $300 (the best "consumer audio") and $500 (the least expensive
of the "high-end audio").  It also seemed that once you crossed this price
barrier, the law of diminishing returns quickly took over; in other words, 
to get the same improvement that you got going from $300 to $500, you would
have to go from $500 to over $1000.  Is this still the case today?

Where do you think that price break is for a receiver?  


Respond via E-mail and I'll summarize to the net.

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Jeremy Grodberg
jgro@apldbio.com    "Beware: free advice is often overpriced!"