Price Paid:  $1100.00 from Bartels HIFI

Summary:
This realy the best receiver ever made in this price cattegory. My home theater is completed with a adp 303 AC-3 digital decoder and Infinity Kappa speakers. Nothing I ever heared is better then this.

Strengths:
HCC amplifier. Beautiful surround sound

Weaknesses:
no 6 channel decoder inside

Similar Products Used:
denon marantz nad

Price Paid:  $300.00 from La , area.

Summary:
its sound good for this price, but I prefer denon.3803, the power its exellent,
special with movies . I know that I can"t
find anotherone like this , for this bargain. luky , dont you think.
roger from :La

Strengths:
full power on all channels.good sound.

Weaknesses:
no digital out puts.

Similar Products Used:
technics 1000thx.

Price Paid:  $1300.00 from circuit city

Summary:
I looked at almost every av proccesor available in 1997 and I kept thinking of the sound I heard from the demo system at cicuit city. Nothing else I heard in this price range even came close to the sonic pefection and clarity of this reciever. The THX certified amp is flawless . It produces awesome lows and highs that will make you smile. This is truly a wonderful
reciver for home audio and music. This reciever will do it all!! I have owned this receiver for 5 years with no problems.

Strengths:
high power amp , volume is loud and clear with no distortion.

Weaknesses:
The remote is hard to program until you figure it out then it is quite simple.
No six channel proccessor built in.

Similar Products Used:
pioneer, fisher , Harman AVR-45 , Harman AVR-65

Price Paid:  $1200.00

Summary:
The Harman Kardon AVR80 is a good receiver up until this year 2001. It hooked a pair of Klipsch KG 5.5 and it blows my away! Overall it has great sound quality, it has THX certification, Low distortion and highly reliable receiver. I am thinking about adding a DTS processor. No problems so far and I have been using this for almost 4yrs now.

Strengths:
High Current Capability, Price, Expandability, Value and Performance

Weaknesses:
no DTS decoder, no fiber optic input.

Similar Products Used:
Marantz, Onkyo, Sony

Summary:
I added an adp303 and nothing that I've lisented to comes close.

Strengths:
good power,lots of features and add ons

Weaknesses:
jumper bars some times cause the whole thing not to work,easily fixed.

Similar Products Used:
Nad,Onkyo