In Reply to: RE: The audio odysseys of professional reviewers posted by rick_m on February 3, 2012 at 13:35:04:
The integrated I had was poorly built not the receiver - The amp was the Arcam Delta 290 integrated - the buttons on the front were lose and a couple of the speaker connectors fell off - and that was only 7 years old.
There are better quality receivers but I was mainly referring to the garden variety models found in the big box chains - but of course there are hefty receivers from the likes Anthem, NAD, Rotel and many others that are quite well built.
Receivers are however compromised and dollar for dollar going separates or integrated will generally be better. The Arcam was about half the price of my flagship Pioneer Elite and the Elite stunk in comparison. And the Arcam sounded much better than double the price receivers from Rotel, Denon, Marantz, and Yamaha and better than their own much more receiver. A lot of the money is focused on features and fancy remote controls and paying for the rights to use THX labels - all money that doesn't go into a quality power supply and caps. I don't know of a Receiver that is pure class A and zero feedback - if there is one it might change my view.
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