My simple solution,
Buy good speaker set with medium AVR or the best speaker set with flagship AVR. Don't waste your fund for high end AVR if your speaker only entry level range.

AVR not really excellent in music, cheaper Class A amp like Audiolab or Musical Fidelity (used price RM1k+) simply could produce excellent musical sound. Not many AVR produce musical sound, my Yamaha THX AVR produce very clean & flat sound, my Onkyo 905 produce warm, detail & bright sound, my friend Denon Flagship, Sherwood 965 set & Marantz SR18 produce clean, detail & good musical (average). Normally we test the sound quality with Tannoy Dualconcentric fullrange speaker (very high sensitivity 95+db). This is only my small experienced.

My advise try audition latest Marantz SR6k or SR7k and Yamaha 800series with good speaker package like Klipsch or Wharfadale.

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This post has been edited by jemmi: Jun 9 2009, 12:24 PM