Price Paid:  $250.00 from Circuit City

Summary:
...walked away from an Onkyo to buy this reciever and have never regretted it. Even the sales person said I would be back for the Onkyo. Good staging, excellent tuner and very hard to beat for the money.

Strengths:
Price, features, and remote.

Weaknesses:
nothing worth mentioning.

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Kenwood KR-V 6050

Price Paid:  $85.00 from WV Auction demo unit

Summary:
Easy to hook up and use. Sounds great especially since I was taking a risk buying it. Was buying it for a second receiver for our vacation house but sich my "new" HK 525 receiver was delivered broke this has taken its place and has performed very well

Strengths:
Front panel imputs. Plenty of rear panel inputs. Good value

Weaknesses:
None at this time

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AVR-80

Price Paid:  $219.00 from online

Summary:
After completing numerous hours of research, I found this reciever to have numerous features (component video switching, center preamp output, 3 digital audio in's, ...) that most $350 recievers did not, let alone $219 models. The overall sound quality is suprisingly good for a reciever at this price range, and as with most A/V recievers, the 100 watt/channel is probably a little overrated, but shoudlnt be a problem if you are in this price range. I highly recomend this product to anyone that needs a highly functional, feature laden reciever for under $300.

Strengths:
Price, 3 optical inputs, component video switching, fold down front panel gives unit a very clean look

Weaknesses:
none so far

Price Paid:  $250.00 from Best Buy

Summary:
This is a simple receiver to set up and operate. I looked at quite a few others but ended up with this one. Although not planned, it works quite well with the "matching" Pioneer DV-353K dvd player

Strengths:
Ease of operation and general sound quality.

Weaknesses:
The instruction manual could use some improvement and a phono stage would have been nice to have. But, I can get around those very minor issues.

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None really.