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Denon AVR-2805 Digital Surround Receiver
Daniel Kumin  |  Dec 27, 2004  | 

Sure, it's great to be an "early adopter" of new technology. You get to play with the latest, coolest gear before any of your oh-so-20th-century friends, and you can learn about new trends as they emerge, transforming yourself into a thundering bore . . . er, valued cocktail-party guest.

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Denon AVR-5805 Digital Surround Receiver
Daniel Kumin  |  Apr 30, 2005  | 
Don't buy this receiver if you have a bad back, a rickety rack, or a bulging credit limit. Because Denon's latest flagship, the AVR-5805, is as tall as many receivers are deep, as deep as many are wide, as heavy as a pair of many other flagship models - and as expensive as a two-year-old Kia.
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Pioneer VSX-74TXVi Digital Surround Receiver
Daniel Kumin  |  Oct 03, 2005  | 

Pioneer sure packed an awful lot of stuff into its new A/V receiver, the Elite VSX-74TXVi, beginning with the mouthful of letters in its model name. Far more engaging is its iPod connectivity: this is the first receiver we've seen to offer fully integrated control for Apple's ubiquitous iPod music player.

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Shootout: Three Mid-Price A/V Receivers
Daniel Kumin  |  Jun 03, 2006  | 

For most people, flagship A/V receivers costing $4,000 to $6,000 are just too much: too much size, weight, complexity, and, for sure, money. But the cheapest models are too limited in connections and, more often than not, too flimsy. The result?

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Sunfire Theater Grand Receiver 3
Daniel Kumin  |  Jan 01, 2007  | 

In a career spanning four decades, Sunfire's founder and chief designer Bob Carver has morphed from bushy to bald, young Turk to elder (or at least older) statesman, and iconoclast to anointed icon. Throughout, one thing neither he nor his designs has ever been is dull, and Sunfire's latest "Theater Grand" A/V receiver is no exception.

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Denon AVR-2307CI A/V Receiver
Daniel Kumin  |  Apr 04, 2007  | 

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Cambridge Audio Azur 640R A/V Receiver
Daniel Kumin  |  May 03, 2007  | 

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Yamaha RX-V661 A/V Receiver
Daniel Kumin  |  Jun 03, 2007  | 

Used to be even the most basic receiver came with two accessories: a cheap wire dipole FM antenna and a plastic-loop AM job (which most often seemed to degrade reception). You still get the antennae, even if nobody except dental-office denizens listens to much terrestrial radio anymore. But you get a lot more with your receiver today.

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Sony STR-DG910 A/V Receiver
Daniel Kumin  |  Jul 04, 2007  | 

Just how much A/V receiver can they contrive to give us for $500?

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Arcam Solo Movie 5.1 DVD Receiver
Daniel Kumin  |  Sep 04, 2007  | 
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Onkyo TX-SR875 A/V Receiver
Daniel Kumin  |  Oct 02, 2007  | 
New! Improved! Whiter whites! Brighter brights! We've heard it all before -- no fewer than 10,000 times.
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Meridian G95 DVD Surround Receiver
Daniel Kumin  |  Dec 03, 2007  | 
What if you had all the money in the world but only room for one more item on your shelf? What if you cared deeply about DVDs and CDs but not a fig for DVD-Audio, SACD, Blu-ray Disc, or HD DVD?
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Pioneer Elite VSX-94TXH A/V Receiver
Daniel Kumin  |  Jan 05, 2008  | 
Feature creatures, take note: If you like tweaking, selecting, optimizing, and customizing, read on. Personally, I'm usually not big on extras.
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Denon AVR-4308CI A/V Receiver
Daniel Kumin  |  Feb 03, 2008  | 
Denon has forged a reputation for producing excellent A/V receivers, a status that only gained renown some 3 years ago with the debut of its gargantuan flagship,
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Marantz Drops Another Solid Receiver
Daniel Kumin  |  Apr 04, 2008  | 
Marantz is one of the grand old names of American audio, and though the seminal hi-fi firm founded by Saul Marantz in 1952 is long gone, the gold-a
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