Recommendations for a used Receiver

I have a NAD T773 receiver from the mid 2000's and truly could not be more pleased. 52LBS + beast with dual(stacked) toroidal transformers to handle most any load. Great sounding leaning to the warm side of neutral with plenty of bass and very good detail. One caveat, high noise floor with high sensitivity speakers(Klipsch in my case at 99dB)but add just a little volume and it washes out. I am using it as a pre/pro only powering the surrounds and letting a 2-channel B&K handle the fronts and a 3-channel B&K(used as a monoblock)to power the center.

Believe me, this NAD would have no problem running a full HT setup with it's own internal amps. Great multichannel analog with BD to handle the new HD audio codecs.

Bill

I would recommend against the Arcam AVR2XX-3XX units. They sound great, but with their power supply regulators on the motherboards, got way too hot and ate their own solder joints.

At a former Arcam service center, we made a profit (for the first time in company history the service dept broke even) due to these receivers melting down. Had to rent a storage facility to store all the AVR's waiting repairs.

Here is a NAD T763 receiver which is one model below my T773. Very musical with plenty of power(true specs) to go around. No affiliation with ad.

http://www.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?miscrcvr&1302808202&/Nad-T763-very-clean

I have used the Onkyo TX-SR 876 for a while, and it does have an amazing performance/features.
I've found mine (used) at around $800.

A major thank you to all who have posted their suggestions regarding receivers.

I'm not at a point where I've narrowed it down to say one, two or three choices. Still researching and reading up on the brands as well as some of the units on offer here at Audiogon.

If there are any other options or preferences, let me know.