So I'm looking to rebuild the home theater system

The reality is that when you build captavating home theater you don’t think about the bells and whistles instead you are drawn into the Movie, TV program or Sporting event other than good to excellent room correction, we would take a product which sounds better then one that has useless features such as transcoding, or video upconversion or other silly features.

We sell the Anthem and they are very, very good, however, they excell more at pure theater roles then the Arcam, Audiocontrol uniits which have overall better amplfication and greater musicality, which they should have for the additional cost an MRX 720 Anthem’s best selling 7 channel unit at $2,400.00 vs the Audiocontrol at $4,000.00 and the Arcam AVR 550 at $3,400.00 for a comparable bunch of channels.

So here is what we would rate in order of importance as criteria for selecting an AVR.

1: Sound quality for both music and theater
2: Quality or room correction
3: Does it have all the inputs and outputs that are required
4: Does the receiver have any streaming apps for music that I may want to access unless I am comfortable with adding an external box.
5: Reliability of product
6: Ease of servicibility
7: Upgradability modular NAD or non Modular everyone else.

These are the criteria that we value.

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ

audiotroy,

All very good ideas, and I do have a streaming question.  If a receiver is hooked up to my lan, can I use a NAS to stream my own collection ? And is there a device to make a 15 year old receiver wireless? IE, something to plug into a aux input.

Thanks in advance. 

JD

1: Sound quality for both music and theater
2: Quality or room correction
3: Does it have all the inputs and outputs that are required
4: Does the receiver have any streaming apps for music that I may want to access unless I am comfortable with adding an external box.
5: Reliability of product
6: Ease of servicibility
7: Upgradability modular NAD or non Modular everyone else.

Hi phil9624,

This system is going to be mostly for video.  My TV is less than a year old so I can stream most apps already. (Don't need the Roku anymore).  So the Sony X800 will handle most all of my other video needs, I think. The house I'm in for the next 3 years has Cat 4 and RF everywhere, even the kitchen.  If need be I can feed Cat 6 or 7 most places. I have another room in the basement that has a mostly audio system. I probably will only be able to use 5.1 here,  but want to be able to go 7.1 or 7.2  when I move again. And being able to stream my own music between systems would be cool!

JD