Ok, so I'm just another noob asking for advice but I hope that a few people will have some opinions on this. I am a college student right now so I am on a fairly tight budget at the moment, and it seems that I will be for the next few years. I have been using a 20+ year old Fisher stereo receiver with some Fisher floor speakers for a while now, but my receiver died on me. Through fixing speakers and acquiring more second-hand, I now have two 100-watt (8 ohms) Fisher floor speakers, two 60-watt Fisher speakers that are similar to the first, and a pair of unbranded 100-watt speakers that I've fixed up myself (but they sound great). These speakers work well together, but I must admit that it is an unreasonable love of my speakers as much as lack of funds for replacing all of these.
So yeah, pile of floor speakers.
Like I said, my receiver died recently, leaving me with no music or cool movie sound. Since I'll be graduating soon and moving somewhere that I can fully exploit a sound system, I figured I would buy an entry level surround sound receiver to power everything. That leaves me with the need for a receiver for under $200, although I could probably squeeze my bank account for an extra $50 if I absolutely have to. The system would have to work with dvd surround sound and music output from a high quality computer sound card, as well as an old turntable. While I wouldn't know good movie sound from crap, I am a bit anal retentive about my music so that's more or less what I'm going for. Oh, and I've got a couple of nice graphic eq's for that music to tweak the hell out of anything I listen to. Anyone have a direction to point me?
