jgro@apldbio.com (Jeremy Grodberg) (03/20/90)
Would anyone care to recommend a 25-watt receiver in the $350-$450 price range, or is that not sufficiently high-end for this group? My current receiver has bitten the dust, and I need to replace it, but I haven't been shopping for receivers for over 5 years, so I don't really have any ideas about what to buy. I have very efficient speakers, and a small living room, so a solid 25-watts (with some headroom) will be plenty of power. (Please no flames about receivers vs. tuners/amps/pre-amps) Also, there used to be a significant price barrier that separated the best of the low-end from the entry to the high end in audio equipment. Many years ago when I was looking at amplifiers it seemed that there was little offered between $300 (the best "consumer audio") and $500 (the least expensive of the "high-end audio"). It also seemed that once you crossed this price barrier, the law of diminishing returns quickly took over; in other words, to get the same improvement that you got going from $300 to $500, you would have to go from $500 to over $1000. Is this still the case today? Where do you think that price break is for a receiver? Respond via E-mail and I'll summarize to the net. ---- Jeremy Grodberg jgro@apldbio.com "Beware: free advice is often overpriced!"