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My opinion: high-end receivers

Posted by DrChaos on January 1, 2017 at 21:12:26:
I suggest Anthem MRX series or Arcam Receivers from SR250, AVR390, AVR550 & AVR850.
After it's set up, you'll have one button simplicity. But you will have the opportunity to tweak with the Anthem Room Correction (ARC) or the Dirac system integrated with the Arcam series.
And those make an enormous, and almost always positive, difference: tweaking with a major payoff.
I personally use an Anthem MRX 310 as a pre-amp into a powered sub, and also NAD M22 power amp and then Maggie 3.6s. The NAD has a 12v control signal, so with a cable from receiver into amp, the amp turns itself on from standby when the receiver is turned on, so it's as if it's still one box.
Do not underestimate the positive benefit that ARC plus a sub can do with planars like Magnapan. The depth of the bass is improved, the integration of the subwoofer fantastic even with an asymmetrical placement and no room treatment. The 40 Hz resonance of the maggie bass panels is tamed and you get most of the 'snap' of traditional dynamic speakers but with all the openness and clarity you expect. It's by far the biggest improvement after choosing good speakers.
Also don't assume experience from consumer grade correction (Audessey and others) in mass market receivers transfers to better systems like Anthem or Dirac.