reciever advise to go with my Polk RM7200

[Mchacona]

Reciever advice to go with my Polk RM7200

After much research and listening I took the plunge and bought a set of Polk RM7200 surround speakers. T
Now I'm trying to decide on a reciever. My AV room is kind of small 16x18 but i really enjoy watching movies and have a 55'' Mitsubishi Platinum rear projection HDTV.
Buying the speakers was such a time consuming venture I'm willing to forgo the time and effort of doing research and just act on some good advice. I have been lurking here for a while and learned alot for you folks.

I'm not sure I need the $1000 plus reciever but if I did I think I would go for the Denon AVR-3805. Question is, which reviever will do these speakers justice without cheaping out. I don't think I'll ever add any speakers so 5.1 is the max needed. I have budgeted up to up to $600. Any opinions are appreciated.....Thanks in advance..

 

[Leprkon]

I'm not sure I need the $1000 plus reciever but if I did I think I would go for the Denon AVR-3805.

the Denon 2805 or 2105 or Yamaha RX-V 750 or RX-V 1500 should match up well to the Polks and be within your price range.

As long as you aren't looking for 3 multiple zones, they should be fine.

You might check the Denon, but the Yamaha's only do video switching, they don't actually upconvert your video signal. You might get a component video output to your TV, but it won't be any better quality than the composite or SVHS signal that you send into the receiver.

Some Denons do actually process and upgrade the signal, but I'm not sure how far up the line you have to go to get that feature. on the other hand, the Yamaha's will give you alot more DPS's to choose from.

 

[Mchacona]

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>>component video switching: 3 in, 1 out (100MHz bandwidth)
>>component video conversion

These are 2 of the features on the Denon 2805 but I'm not sure what they mean? Can someone help explain or point me to an explanation.

I'm guessing the component video switching means: that I can feed 3 seperate component signals in like my HD cable and DVD and the reciever will output it back to the TV. If this is correct what is the relation of the 100MHz , ius this more or less than the original signal?

as far as the component video conversion I'm still lost, thanks again..

 

[Leprkon]

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as far as the component video conversion I'm still lost, thanks again..

there's a big difference between "switching" and "conversion" that many manufacturers (including Sony and Yamaha) don't bother to make.

"switching" merely takes the signal from a SVHS or composite (RCA-type cord with normally yellows ends) and transfers it to a component signal. The problem is that the picture is no better than the signal you were already sending in. (an easy way to think of it is if you put a burrito on a pizza pan, it is still a burrito).

This gives you the rather unexciting benefits of plugging more devices into a TV that might only have a few inputs, and, in some cases, using just the button on the receiver remote to change between inputs. You get these "benefits" at the risk of adding more circuits and connections which might degrade your signal. In my opinion, all video signals should go straight into the TV whenever possible for the best signal quality.

"conversion", on the other hand, uses a digital processor (usually a Faroudja-type device), to actually clean up the signal from SVHS or composite and actually gives you a near-component quality output. There is an actual conversion done (it actually turns your burrito into a pizza). Some of the Denons will do this, but, as I mentioned, I don't know exactly where that is....

the cheesey manufacturers will call their "switching" "upconversion", even though there is no actual conversion done. you have to look real close at the specs and manuals if this is an important feature for you (it took a very direct and unwrigglable question to Yamaha techs for me to get a straight answer) .