Price Paid:  $270.00 from ebay

Summary:
i saw this on ebay and studied up on it,i was impressed 130 wpc AC3 cooling fan elite series beautiful looks onscreen display heavy duty power suply in eccelent condition guaranteed to work perfect so i bought it UPS showed up 5 days later and i hooked it up first of all no FM or AM reception just static and couldn`t get video to switch on dvd mode but the audio sounded eccelent fortunatly the seller took it back w/ full refund and claimed it worked fine when he got it back be carefull out there if you shop ebay anyways i would have loved to keep this unit if only everything worked properly it was in mint cond

Strengths:
beautiful looks lots of good clean power onscreen menu heavy duty power supply

Weaknesses:
feature wise and power wise none my local repair shop told me this model was plagued with problems not worth fixing

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pioneer vsx-9700s vsx-d811s vsx-4800 sansui G-6700 kenwood vr-6070

Price Paid:  $500.00 from Ebay

Summary:
The look is awesome w/beautiful rosewood side panel. The sound is very clean! Quality material such as face of the receiver, heavy duty fan/power supply, and power cord!

Strengths:
Very quality receiver! Great for music and HT!

Weaknesses:
Not enough digital inputs

Price Paid:  $1600.00 from AudioBuys

Summary:
Great reciever though not well thought out

Strengths:
Well made and put together.

Weaknesses:
Not enough AC-3 inputs for differnet equipment

Summary:
Great sounding receiver. The best one I have owned so far. Pure line stereo sound is as good as any high end amp. However, it does not have a optical digital input and a separate DVD input. You can use the TV/SAT AC-3 input, but to get S-video, you have to independently select the audio and video scources.