AV Receiver help

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Been looking for a new av amp purely for home cinema only.Not to use for music just dvd only.Useing a Cambridge audio dv57,popped down my local Richersounds they suggested three around my price range £250 flexible a bit,in order they rated them 1 Cambridge Audio 340r, 2 Onkyo txsr 505, 3 Sony something,which ones would you recomend?any other makes any help would be gratefull and again purely for home cinema not two channel sterio thanks Chris.

 

[Andrew Everard]

[quote user="Chris C"]...3 Sony something,which ones would you recomend?[/quote]

Probably the STR-DG710. I'd sling in another score and buy the STR-DA1200ES, a 2007 Award-winner, from the same source

 

[Anonymous]

stay clear of the sony av receiver i recently got rid of the strdg710 as it was not powerful enough to run my b & w 6 series speakers i have just brought the onkyo txsr 605 what a upgrade that was far superor machine ( £399 ) i know its out of your price range so go for the txsr505 just as good ( hence why the onkyo machines took the top spot from sony in the awards ) but if you got your heart set on a sony only get the str da 1200es the one the other guy told you about a good machine but old now it won award like the other guy said but in 2006 not 2007,also shop around you can get that for £269.99 ( richer sounds ) but personally i would choose the ONKYO everytime

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the help this av amp is fairly new to me forgot to mention I have an LG 42 inch lcd with hdmi,does this make any difference to which amp I finally purchase? speakers are spendor s5e fronts have a set of Monitor audio rs2 to use for rears for now! do I really need a sub?Thanks Chris C.

 

[Gerrardasnails]

Studog1, "the other guy" is the consulting editor of the magazine! I would go along with him, partly because he knows more than us put together and I have used the 1200ES for six months and it's great. It fails to do just two things that I would want it to and which would make me upgrade fairly soon - if you want to use just one hdmi cable from screen to receiver, you cannot use anything but hdmi to your receiver (would be ok if there were 3 or 4 hdmi inputs instead of 2). And no HD audio. However, no receiver apart from the Onkyo 605 under £500-600 gives you HD audio. All in all the Sony receiver mentioned is brilliant for the money.

 

[Anonymous]

Yes it looks like its going to be the Sony 1200 read a lot of reveiws and found it for £300 in black superfi,pity really £269 silver at richersounds.Think I will go with Andrews advice and yours.Thanks Chris C.