AVR recommendation please!

[fordda]

AVR recommendations please!

Room is 15 x 45 feet. (Family Room with open kitchen attached). Home Theatre is in a corner, listening position is at an angle. I know this is definitely not proper, but have to live with this. My current setup is Onkyo TX-NR717, with Polk RTi A5, Polk CSi A6 Center, SVS SB1000 sub, RTi A3 surrounds.

I am looking to upgrade the receiver. I would love huge sound stage, with excellent imagery for music. I feel I want the best amp for music play, and hope that this would be adequate for movies as well. With respect to budget, whilst not an issue, I am looking for the sweet spot where marginal benefits aren’t really worth the costs. Also, I note that I am open to eventually upgrading speakers, so would like amp to future proof a bit.

 

[Golfx]

AVR recommendations please!

Room is 15 x 45 feet. (Family Room with open kitchen attached). Home Theatre is in a corner, listening position is at an angle. I know this is definitely not proper, but have to live with this. My current setup is Onkyo TX-NR717, with Polk RTi A5, Polk CSi A6 Center, SVS SB1000 sub, RTi A3 surrounds.

I am looking to upgrade the receiver. I would love huge sound stage, with excellent imagery for music. I feel I want the best amp for music play, and hope that this would be adequate for movies as well. With respect to budget, whilst not an issue, I am looking for the sweet spot where marginal benefits aren’t really worth the costs. Also, I note that I am open to eventually upgrading speakers, so would like amp to future proof a bit.

Speakers are what you hear. So huge sound stage and music imagery would accompany the speakers not an AVR.
Regarding an AVR I would choose one that has the features you desire, number of channels needed, wattage and SINAD you desire.

Denon makes reliable AVRs. I would look at Crutchfield’s online offerings.

 

[DVDdoug]

I would love huge sound stage, with excellent imagery for music.

Floyd Toole says:

The important localization and soundstage information is the responsibility of the recording engineer, not the loudspeaker.

But obviously, speaker placement, room acoustics, the speaker (especially if you don't have a "regular" forward-firing speaker) also have an affect. And since it's an illusion,. with the sound actually coming from a pair of speakers, your brain is also involved.

 

[peng]

AVR recommendations please!

Room is 15 x 45 feet. (Family Room with open kitchen attached). Home Theatre is in a corner, listening position is at an angle. I know this is definitely not proper, but have to live with this. My current setup is Onkyo TX-NR717, with Polk RTi A5, Polk CSi A6 Center, SVS SB1000 sub, RTi A3 surrounds.

I am looking to upgrade the receiver. I would love huge sound stage, with excellent imagery for music. I feel I want the best amp for music play, and hope that this would be adequate for movies as well. With respect to budget, whilst not an issue, I am looking for the sweet spot where marginal benefits aren’t really worth the costs. Also, I note that I am open to eventually upgrading speakers, so would like amp to future proof a bit.

As mentioned, Denon avr that comes with XT32 sub eq ht may help in your sort of difficult room/placement.

 

[Miker 1102]

The Denon wirh Audyssey XT ( as Peng noted) seems to have the versatility you mentioned. As far as speaker upgrades, I prefer coaxial drivers and have used KEF and Mirage and found that i like the image produced by these speakers measured radiation patterns. You can go online and see some measurements of Kef speakers done by guys like Erin from Erin's audio corner. He uses a machine that is incredible. I can't remember the name of it.

 

[Chromatischism]

The Denon wirh Audyssey XT ( as Peng noted) seems to have the versatility you mentioned. As far as speaker upgrades, I prefer coaxial drivers and have used KEF and Mirage and found that i like the image produced by these speakers measured radiation patterns. You can go online and see some measurements of Kef speakers done by guys like Erin from Erin's audio corner. He uses a machine that is incredible. I can't remember the name of it.

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