NAD does make good sounding stuff, but the above joke about them being defective does have some basis in truth. A friend of mine is a dealer and has plenty of units returned for repair. The Denon receivers would probably have more focus on home theater, more features, and depending on the model...they can be very well built (and also have good two-channel sound for the price). They also have decent D/A converters in their units. The NAD stuff would have a warmer sound, but I wouldn't risk the possible trouble. Yamaha and Onkyo also build decent, practical, reliable home theater/audio receivers (for the price). I suggest you try looking up consumer reviews on www.audioreview.com.
Recommendations: poor college kid; NAD?
I have always been into music and movies, expescially when it comes to home theatre. That should be the first thing i say: I am looking for this more for Home Theatre than pure music. That said, I was looking online for a receiver, when i ran across a Denon THX Dolby Digital, etc, etc that got my heart pumping. In the computer lab where I work (and where I was veiwing this piece of machinery), a teacher came up and was telling me about the system he has built thus far, and then recommended NAD to me as a high quality, low frills reciever. I checked out their website and found something with THX, but still that looked like an excellent receiver. What I am wondering is if you guys have any advice on a nice receiver that will support what I want to do, which is mainly watch DVDs. I would prefer if it had that "optical digital input," since from what I hear that is the best way to transport the information, but i might be wrong on that too. Any advice you guys have would be great! thanks!
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