Good Stereo Recievers

[Vendor Defendor]

Anyone have any recommendations? Mine is going poopy

 

[Rubrburnr]

I have always liked the Kenwood's with the rotating face plates. Looks really cool when you turn you car on and the whole face moves. All depends on what you are looking for.

 

[denn454]

my car came with a pioneer and i can't say a single good thing about that piece of crap. hard to use, worked really weired, ok sound. lots of do nothing features to make you want to buy it didnt' have some things you would want though.

I temporarly replced it with an alipine. not a bad unit lots of little things you can do with it that really does help the sound. and its easy to use, a little confusing at first but not bad.

Both of those are higher end stereos, probably $150 for the pioneer and $200 for the alpine (just rough numbers) I bought a cheap blaupunkt for my old car at costco and absolutly loved it. $100 for it. didnt' do much except what you wanted it to do. incrediable easy to use, awsome sound, it would read a cd that everything else wouls spit out. and the thing i REALLY liked about it was its time recal with the key off.

as soon as i can get another one i'll get a nice blaupunkt. they have some that will listen to your car, compare it to the stereo sound and cancel out the road noise. they also have some special thing in the radio reciver where its basically 2 recivers in one and somehow it makes the radio clearer. I don't know how it works, but it works good.

I can also say a lot of good things about their speakers too. the aluminum overdrive speakers put out an amazing sound. I had a total of $250 into my old cars stereo and it was one of the best sounding (quality wise) cars i've heard.

 

[Vendor Defendor]

I should rephrase this, house stereo's... but thanks for the info...



I am looking at this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=50596&item=3088992166&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW


I think next week I am going to go look around at pawn shops.

 

[VADER]

I'll add my 2 cents. Check out the receivers THD, it should be somewhere around .06 at its rated output. The human ear cannot hear any distortion below this (I may be off by .01). I see a lot of new receivers with .1 or so, and I wouldnt touch them. This is always my first criteria to look at. Of course my home stereo is a 20 yr old Technics with 90 watts x2 @.06 THD, a lot cleaner than most of the new stuff.

 

[OneQuikV6]

Had wonderful luck with Technics. From Crutchfield. Good customer service too.

Use Technics A/V receiver with separate Surround processor, Panasonic DVD player and all Polk speakers.

 

[salvageV6]

Mid 70's Yamaha receivers are great.

All analog output power, and great tuners.

Silver faced ones.

CR series, and they have as many or more features as the newer ones.