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I had a Mitsubishi receiver.

I bought it at ABC warehouse for $180 when they had an inventory blowout sale. I sold it not even a year later and when I was ready to buy it back it was sold again. Went into ABC to try and buy it again and this time the price was $365... I didnt buy it of course.

Anyhow it was nice. It was powerful, had mad features and was affordable when I got it.

I've had Pioneer and Yamaha, and I just set up a Sony for my grandparents. As far as the receivers go, the Pioneer was probably my least favorite. The Yamaha is the best out of the ones I have worked with/owned. I wasn't expecting much from it but it's not bad. Its powering Kipsh (maybe theres a "c" in there somewhere) speakers. Tower ones. Not too impressed with those. They get loud, and they sound pretty good, but don't expect anything spectacular from them. The sub is shit imo, maybe its just cause I have an XXX im used to but it just doesnt have enough output, even with the settings tweaked.

All in all, Yamaha receiver = good and Klipsch speakers are decent, IMO.

onkyo is a good, reliable brand. they aren't too pricey either. i bought a pretty descent 6.1 set for around $400 a few months ago, and it works/sounds great.
crutchfield has [this] which seems to suit you.

the Encores are great, but I was suggesting something cheaper like the Take 5.2 system
much more affordable.
AR has a good 5.1 sat/sub system too.. the model number eludes me off hand

not here i think they mark it up and extra 10% and they wont deal to save thier lives. they also look at you like your going to rob the place and have like 4 people watch you at all times.

i have pioneer reciever and cambridge soundworks model six main left and right with inkus center channel and some cheapo rca surrounds and klh amped sub. for a budget sub it sounds pretty good and those henry kloss designed model six speakers rock...

had some bose before and didnt like them also have had cv and wasnt crazy about those either.

ya...like i said its a ghetto place, but they once in a while carry things that are worth buying, and they are usually a little cheaper, plus you can always talk em down. they bargain here like crazy.

we got a rex here in watertown and they are like a laughing stock of the town for car audio its so funny.

Look at Denon refurbished recievers. I have one and it works great. It was like $250, originally $550 or something new. Also, I bought a Cerwin Vega sub, 12". It rocks hard, 250wmrs ported. Great response. It got fried in a lightniong storm along with my tv and dvd player, but it was still under its 2 year warrenty, so I sent it in :) . Pioneer is pretty decent for speakers as well. I bought a 5 speaker surround set for about $250 or less total, they handle 75 or 100 wrms if I'm not mistaken. The sub by the way was $230...we got a serious deal from this place Rex Audio/Video or something like that. I'm sure some have heard of it. It's sort of a ghetto place, but they are 10% or so cheaper than everyone else, same warrenty and all.

It sounds really good. It's a lot of different make/model stuff, but we did really good for the money we spent. That sub and the speakers I give an A+...I'll see if I can't find the model numbers somewhere.

I don't really want to build anything myself. I'm not that into home audio and would rather just buy a set. Anyways, I want advice on receivers lol.

Also, KiKi, I said I was looking at budget, NOT wall shaking speaker set. Those Energy speakers look amazing, and the $1,200 price tag is wayyy above budget.