new recievers

[Jetblack3]

Haven't walked into local best buy in years but recently needed a cable so gave me the opportunity to walk around and take in what's new. Their receiver aisle caught my attention. I thought I had a pretty powerful one ( Onkyo sr 805) at 130 w per channel. Most everything they had was higher with a denon topping out at 185 w. This thing was smaller and weighed next to nothing. I liked the dual sub outputs but can these recievers now days really push that much power ? May want to upgrade if there really that powerful

 

[lovinthehd]

Perhaps you're misunderstanding or making comparisons between different spec basis, but without model numbers hard to know what you looked at. Most avrs are going to be within a few dB of each other in any case. The Denon 7200, if you saw one, benched in the S&V test 185w at 8 ohm 1% thd 2ch driven. Doesn't mean it's significantly more power than your Onkyo. Some avrs have dual sub outputs that can separately adjust for level/delay, but otherwise a simple y-splitter is all many of them have internally.