Hello all, I am new to the forums and could use a little help...
i recently bought a pioneer vsx-816 reciever based on all the great reviews I have read on the web, while the reciever sounded excellent with movies, it did no justice to music what so ever. I was first running the bose acoustimass 10 system through the reciever, I sent them back after hooking them up. I then bought a pait of klipsch synergy B2 from best buy, sounded extremely squashed when I got home, so today i went and bought a pair of boston acoustics cr67 speakers. They sounded fantastic in the store playing through a denon dvr-1707 reciever. I brought hthem home and they sounded horrible. So i returned the pioneer, i picked up a denon avr-1507 reciver. The bostons sounded great through them, the klipsch sounded pretty good except the midrange was way to loud. AFter about an hour of listening.... the denon has smoke coming from it.
So tomorrow, i am returning the denon and the klipsch speakers. I am also contimplating returning the bostons as well. I may keep the bostons though I am still unsure.
As for now I have an old pioneer 5.1 reciever hooked up which sounds pretty god for music, but sucks for HT.
Should I go and get another pioneer thinking that there was maybe a problem wit hthe one o bought, or should I look at something else. Im looking to spend around 300-500 - id prefer to buy from best buy since I have a 350 store credit from them. But i oculd use that for something else if i have to..... Since I listen to ALOT of loud music on my system, id like to get something that will sound good for both. Any recommendations? I am also looking at the fluance speakers, any suggestions on those?
Thanks a million!!