Please help with receiver choice

[Bon63]

I need help making a choice between Denon 790 (1910) , Yamaha 765 or Pioneer 1019. I have been reading too many reveiws and I am more confused now then when I started. I will be using the receiver for home theater and have not picked speakers yet which is my next decision.

Thank You for your help.

 

[bandphan]

I need help making a choice between Denon 790 (1910) , Yamaha 765 or Pioneer 1019. I have been reading too many reveiws and I am more confused now then when I started. I will be using the receiver for home theater and have not picked speakers yet which is my next decision.

Thank You for your help.

pick your speakers first

 

[m_vanmeter]

+1 speakers first and how large is your listening room ???

 

[Bon63]

The room is 20 x 14.
I have been trying to decide on speakers and just can't figure out which way to go. I would like small wall mount / bookshelf for the front and center. The rear is where I run into trouble in ceiling would be the best. How critical is it to have the rear speakers the same distance apart if I go wall mount for the rear one will be further from center then the other.

Thanks

 

[bandphan]

yamaha 765 should be better.

Not if his speakers are 4ohm all the way around

The room is 20 x 14.
I have been trying to decide on speakers and just can't figure out which way to go. I would like small wall mount / bookshelf for the front and center. The rear is where I run into trouble in ceiling would be the best. How critical is it to have the rear speakers the same distance apart if I go wall mount for the rear one will be further from center then the other.

Thanks

You can compensate by boosting channel levels. Choose all of your speakers to ensure your AVR can drive them. Once speakers are out of the way, get an AVR with the power you need a features you want. Room correction tends to be a big choice in decision making and you may want to read these..

Audyssey Denon, Onkyo
MCACC Pioneer
YPAO Yamaha

pre-outs on an AVR also make sense, so if you want to go with seperate amplification, you just up grade the AVR or PrePro and just worry about feature sets not power.