Возьми Nakamichi AV-1s (старый, без декодеров, но со входом 5.1) или AV-10 (поновее, без входа 5.1, но с встроенными DD и DTS). Это я как фоннат накамичи говорю.
И будет тебе щастье. И 4 ома выдержат, и именно в стерео хорошо звучат (почитай на audioreview.com про разные накамичи). Все практически подчеркивают, что для своей цены на удивление неплохо в стерео. Да и сам я могу подтвердить.
Вот одно из типичных, например:
Reviewed by: Rajiv, Audio Enthusiast, from plano, tx, US
Price Paid: $450 at getplugged.com
Product Model Year:
2000
Summary:
This is my second review for this receiver. After a few months of writing my first review, I sold the nak av-8, to upgrade to DTS. I bought onkyo and then returned it. Sounded very weak musically. Then I bought marantz....again I returned it for I could not get used to the thin sounding receiver. The same happened with denon. Then I thought I had enough of mid-fi receivers and went for the big daddy of them all....Sony STRDA777ES. Its good, but when i sat to listen to the music, I cud only see the thousand odd dollars I had spent on the receiver, rather than concentrate on music!! It was a strict case of overkill. Sony was definitely very clean, powerful and everything. But still I decided to sell it and downgrade . I bought the sony STRDA333ES for $339 (open box @ tweeter). Big mistake. It sounded aweful. Very electronic, processed kind of sound. Two channel was a torture. So I returned this within a week. Now this obession of mine, trying to find a budget receiver that sounded great on a two channel was reaching gigantic proportions. So then finally like a prodigal son, I decided to buy the nak back from my friend to whom I had initially sold it. But apparently he was wiser...he refused to sell it !!
So in desperation I looked everywhere but could not find it, as they were discontinued. (Looks like nakamichi is coming out with a new model....any info on this one?)
So finally i decided to try getplugged.com. But even these guys had run out of them. But (god bless them!) they had a couple of open items. I immedietly ordered one for $429 + $18(shipping). I can now rest in peace. No more upgrades....they simply are not worth it. I have a pair of infinity sm-115 monitors that are ultra efficient. They might be huge and large unlike the sleek ones you see around, but they sound much much better than most of them. I simply cannot justify paying 5-6 times more to get abt the same performance.
So no speaker upgrade, no receiver upgrade. So what if av-8 doesn't have DTS, 99% of the dvds out there are in DD. The two channel is exceptional in av-8. Just too good to be true. I appreciate this all the more after having gone through all those receivers out there. My entire setup costs a little more than $1500. They include
Sony DVPS7700
Nak AV-8
JVC VCR
Infinity SM-115 (main)
Infinity SM-Video (center)
Sony 27" TV
I really cannot ask for anything more. Three cheers for getplugged.com, they were very helpful, quick and courteous. Will surely do bussiness with them again. But some of the their prices are atrocious...
Strengths:
W-A-R-M-T-H. Very Musical
Weaknesses:
no DTS, no 6ch input. Remote
Similar Products Used:
marantz 7000/8000, onkyo575x/989, integra5.1/7.1, sony es 333/777, denon 3300/2801
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