advice on new receiver please! beginner

[mr.gecko]

Hello everyone!

I'm new to this forum so i hope my question didn't pop out too often.
I'm in the process of buying a new receiver and i have narrowed my choice to these.

I will be listening to stereo music(norah jones, pink floyd,supertramp, genesis) a lot about 75% of the time the rest will be hometheater.

I have Monitor Audio bronze 2 speakers. Can't seem to decide between all of them.

Denon AVR-3805 at 995$
or
Yamaha rxv1500 at 800$
or
Cambridge azur 540 at 800$

All prices are in canadian money.

Thank you all for your time.

Jean-Marc

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[fergusonv]

The Yamaha 2500 is more comparable to the Denon 3805 and should be very close in price. I would recommend either of them as they are both good AVR's. I recently picked up a 2500 and was debating between the two. From the reviews I read it seemed the Yamaha had a better pre-amp section and the Denon had better amps. I went with the Yamaha since I am planning on adding amps anyway.