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Seperates vs Sunfire Ultimate Receiver

For 2700 can anyone suggest separates, which would perform music and HT - 50/50 - better than the Sunfire UR, to drive 6ohm speakers (84dB Mirage). With apparent power - 200W at 8 and 400W at 4ohm - and a TGIII built in, is this the exception to the rule? Comments.
au_man
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samski
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I was considering the ultimate also, I went with the sunfire theater grande 3 and a sherbourn 5210 amp instead, I had a sunfire amp before and found it noicy at times, the sherbourn amp is the best bang for the buck out there IMO, good luck
bgart
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If 2700. is your budget, and you're not running extremely efficient (95db or higher) speakers, you should not have any problems with noise floor IMHO.
I have this receiver mostly because of space restraints, but this receiver has opened up a heeping can of whoop-ass on the receivers I have previously used.
au_man OP
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Thanks Samski and Bgart for your responses.
I'm really surprised, no other alternatives to suggest from this group.

So does the entire a'gon group agree that the Sunfire receiver is as good or better than Separates?

Maybe I should ask how much more than 2700 I would have to spend to get a significant improvement. Thanks
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