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I have a friend that just purchased a house with some outdoor and indoor ceiling speakers. They need two receivers to be used with ipod, possibly phone and FM radio. Since we are not talking high end speakers, I would prefer no more than $200 per receiver and they must have two sets of speaker outputs (A and B). Anyone have first hand experience with inexpensive receivers? I was thinking Onkyo or Yamaha, but if someone knows of an overachiever I'm all ears.
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Get a 40 watt vintage receiver like a pioneer 780. They sound better and you can buy them all day below your budget
I had a Pioneer SX-727, The TUNER SUCKED. It had center and strength meters. It would slowly DRIFT off frequency than JUMP ot mute.
To the shop 3 times or so with NO fix.
Too much is never enough
Opus 33 1/3
I LIKE that for only a slight premium over the Insignia @ Best.
WAY too good for my Garage!
Too much is never enough
only buy a Sony
INSIGNIA from Best
Too much is never enough
That's what I was thinking. On sale for $99.00. I went on the Best Buy website after posting this thread.
Listed on the site @130$. If it were at the 100$ level, I'd be tempted.
Too much is never enough
If you want a receiver for patio speakers and an iPod or phone, the simplest place to go is Goodwill or the Salvation Army store. There are plenty of nice Sony, Kenwood or Yamaha stereo receivers for under $100, typically less than $50. Hook them up to two set of speakers and buy an RCA to stereo mini plug cable and plug it into the headphone jack. You might have to pull off the case for the plug to seat all the way.
We use an old Kenwood that cost me $40 in my wife's studio. Most folks use the headphone phone on their phones. You can get iPod docking stations which also charge the iPod, but the old ones don't work on new phones because the connector changed. We also have a Bluetooth to RCA out box, $20. It works, but you can't be more than 30 or 40 feet away from the box.
If he also needs a receiver for HT, then I'd buy a new one that supports 4K. I use a Yamaha RX V-567 (?) that's a few years old and cost me less than $400. It's integrated into the main 2 channel system and functions as an HT processor and surround amp along with driving the outdoor speakers with whatever is on the main system.
Why does he need two units? To play different material on one pair versus the other one?
-Rod
I wish what you say were true around here.
Last time (maybe 3 weeks ago) I made the rounds of the GoodWill and DAV stores I found about 40 DVD players. Some JUNK speakers and a few other do-dads.
NOTHING like any kind of receiver. OH! some kind of what looked like a BEATER of a PA amp.
Too much is never enough
You have a point. When I found the Kenwood, I hit all the shops in town and then headed over to Escondido, no luck at Goodwill, but the Salvation Army store had a nice Denon. Unfortunately, it was broken, so I settled on the Kenwood.
Last week, I went over to the local Goodwill and stumbled onto one really good CD in the pile and did see those 40 DVD players along with CD recorders, no receivers. But I was actually looking for a decent CD players to swap out for my Philips SACD player that I'd lent to the studio and found a decent Sony for all of $7.99 less my senior discount.
-Rod
So, for my Garage, I could EITHER ::
1. Spend endliess days and GALLONS of expensive gas searching San Diego thrift stores with NO assurances of getting anything worth of poop.
OR
2. Send of for a Dayton or Lapai for maybe 30$ or so, delivered.
Tough choice.
Too much is never enough
Thanks for your input. The speaker wires for the outdoor patio and lawn rock speakers are located in the garage. The speaker wires for the ceiling speakers in the house are located in the family room. That is why they need two separate receivers.
check out the ad / trader section right here. Plenty of cheap stuff that is usually sold by fellow audio nuts. So your odds do increase on not getting screwed.
and I just fucking hate the thing like poison. The owner's manual is a joke, the options are stupid and the remote was designed by Satan himself.
But OH!, that sound!
Too much is never enough
meh on the sound. Just meh. I was so glad to get my good old B&K Reference 50 back on the rack. Even as old as it is and without the newest Dolby, it still destroys the Onkyo. Wrecks it.
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