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In Reply to: RE: Modern receivers vs. separates posted by Gevo on November 04, 2009 at 11:29:33

But..! I think if you treat it as a low-powered amplifier, the receiver may sound very good. I think the first handful of watts from my $400 Harman Kardon sound great, and if you disguised it in a deluxe housing, it would embarrass some overpriced and under-engineered high-end products. I suspect that would hold true for other receivers as well--IF you run them well below max rated output (basically let the amps loaf along) and avoid hard-to-drive speakers.

As a DAC, comparisons are a bit tricky because most high end DACs cannot process Dolby True HD soundtracks the way an HT receiver can. For playing regular CDs via SPDIF coax connection, my HK sounds alright, but the <$300 AMB Gamma 2 that I just built sounds much better.

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