My advice would be to get the best Marantz AVR you can for $1k. Marantz puts out new models every year, and when they do the old ones go on sale about 40% off. So their $1.5k (or whatever it is) will probably go for $1k new at that point.
It’ll have all the Atmos/DTX and also will have a pretty good digital streamer for streaming music (Tidal, Qobuz, Spotify, etc.) and will sound pretty good for music also.
That’s if $1k is really your budget limit. It is possible to do better if you have more to spend, but at $1k I don’t think it is possible to do better if you want Atmos (which if you are heavy HT, is worthwhile).
I have marantz SR5012 running an Atmos 5.1.2 system in my main HT system. It works great for tv and movies.
Now my main music system costs 3x more than my main HT system (I don’t use the HT for music), but when I started I did.
If you get more seriously into music, you can get a dedicated 2 ch amp or integrated for that later.
It’ll have all the Atmos/DTX and also will have a pretty good digital streamer for streaming music (Tidal, Qobuz, Spotify, etc.) and will sound pretty good for music also.
That’s if $1k is really your budget limit. It is possible to do better if you have more to spend, but at $1k I don’t think it is possible to do better if you want Atmos (which if you are heavy HT, is worthwhile).
I have marantz SR5012 running an Atmos 5.1.2 system in my main HT system. It works great for tv and movies.
Now my main music system costs 3x more than my main HT system (I don’t use the HT for music), but when I started I did.
If you get more seriously into music, you can get a dedicated 2 ch amp or integrated for that later.