With processors running as low as $500, and surround amps starting at not much more, if you are in the market for a $500 solution you might be stuck with these power-starved receivers Audioholics is talking about.
But if you are thinking of dropping $1k on a receiver, you'd be better off with entry level separates, and then upgrading each when there is a reason (ie, new fangled audio format leads to a new processor purchase, or more power hungry speakers mean more amplification is needed).
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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With processors running as low as $500, and surround amps starting at not much more, if you are in the market for a $500 solution you might be stuck with these power-starved receivers Audioholics is talking about.
But if you are thinking of dropping $1k on a receiver, you'd be better off with entry level separates, and then upgrading each when there is a reason (ie, new fangled audio format leads to a new processor purchase, or more power hungry speakers mean more amplification is needed).