New toy on the way!

[wvpolekat]

Well, my old Onkyo receiver was getting a little long in the tooth with Pro-Logic, and since the wife is setting up a home studio for voice over work and was needing something to drive a pair of monitors, I took the opportunity to donate the Onkyo to the studio and update the HT receiver at the same time

Looked around and found that a lot had changed since I bought the Onkyo. It only handles composite video, so that makes it not that great for switching sources easily. I quickly found that one of my requirements was the ability to upconvert composite or s-video to component (since thats what my HD set has). I figure this should let me get the most out of any source. From an audio perspective, I am not all that picky and am generally pleased with any reasonably good piece. The important part to me was functionality and flexability.

So, I settled on the Denon AVR-786S which seemed to have a good mix of features that suit my use well. What little that is out there about it I read, were all positive. But, it has some large shoes to fill as the Onkyo has made me very happy over the 10 years I have had it. And, it being 7.1 I am going to have to aquire some more speakers apparently

http://www.amazon.com/Denon-AVR-786S...8746711&sr=1-1

[paulbeers]

Very nice unit. I am waiting for the Onkyo TX-SR605 (I want the HDMI upconverting since my HDTV has only one HDMI port) to come out to upgrade my aging Kenwood VR407.

[IVB]

If you get one with RS232 control, you'll be able to monitor it and paint current status from your HTPC.