1gkar: Question:

Does the AVR-1910 allow decoding of Blu-ray TrueHD & DTS-MA signals?

MrFlower: cgrew, have you considered Yamaha RXV1900? just to future proof yourself (no such thing in HT world I suppose...) its a unit with 140watt x 7 channel. I know you can get them for under $2000.... cos I bought one and then upgraded to RXV3900.

cgrew: Firstly MrFlower the V1900 is an older model - check out Yamaha.com, the newest powerhoarse models for 2009/2010 are the RX-V1065 & RX-V2065.

Secondly that's very good to know grolschie about the HDMI 1.4 support for the knew Denon coming, truth is I'm not sure if I'm ready to switch to 3-D anytime soon. I personally don't think the market for 3-D is going to take off in NZ.

You should start a thread and post it - what are your opinions on the new 3-D TVs and AV receiver's ect that will support 3-D that are just around the corner?

I myself like things rather simple, I'm into good Hi-Fi stereo sound music playback and I do really injoy watching a good Blu-Ray or DVD with a 5.1 surround sound mix - having both is great, but 3-D? $300 glasses you have to wear? errrm..

Oh and yes if I could afford a Marantz I would but I think the AVR-1910 will do the job, fingers crossed.

MrFlower:

cgrew: Firstly MrFlower the V1900 is an older model - check out Yamaha.com, the newest powerhoarse models for 2009/2010 are the RX-V1065 & RX-V2065.

Secondly that's very good to know grolschie about the HDMI 1.4 support for the knew Denon coming, truth is I'm not sure if I'm ready to switch to 3-D anytime soon. I personally don't think the market for 3-D is going to take off in NZ.

You should start a thread and post it - what are your opinions on the new 3-D TVs and AV receiver's ect that will support 3-D that are just around the corner?

I myself like things rather simple, I'm into good Hi-Fi stereo sound music playback and I do really injoy watching a good Blu-Ray or DVD with a 5.1 surround sound mix - having both is great, but 3-D? $300 glasses you have to wear? errrm..

Oh and yes if I could afford a Marantz I would but I think the AVR-1910 will do the job, fingers crossed.

I was wondering about should I get an RXV1065 or RXV1900 before I made my purchase, been told the 1900 uses toroidal transformer, where as RXVxx65 series are not, some even mentioned there is a signicant cost saving from Yamaha on the 2010 line. so I bought my 1900 when they are still available, which I later upgraded to 3900...

1065/2065 is about 10kg, 1900 is 18kg, I like my equipment heavy.

buzzy: Rather than taking your receiver to the showroom, ask if you can borrow one of their units and take it home for a week. Leave a credit card slip if need be, so they can charge you if you steal/damage/break it.

You're far better off auditioning new kit in your own room, for two reasons. Firstly, you'll see how it sounds when it's in *your* room, as opposed to the shop, which will have totally different acoustics. Secondly, you can take time to listen to a lot of stuff over the week, and swap between the two components. This will give you a good idea of whether there's any difference in the sound, and whether that difference is worth the purchase price of the new receiver.

It's very easy to be convince yourself that you can hear a difference when you've got half an hour to listen to something, and you're sitting next to a salesman who has a vested interest in you hearing that difference.

If the shop won't lend you the equipment, it's either because they know there won't be enough of a difference to purchase, or because you look scruffy and need a haircut ;-)

Re the banana plugs and 1080 passthru - when have you *ever* wanted to pass through an HDMI signal as opposed to processing it in the receiver? Do you spend your weekends regularly un-hooking and re-hooking your speakers into the receiver? Do you really want to spend a thousand bucks or more to solve those non problems?

Jaxson: I'd put money on you buying that receiver, you seem pretty keen on it.

Remember though that the power thing is a bit relative to the volumes you want to play stuff at.  A 100W receiver will sound similar to a 150W receiver at normal listening volumes.  You'll need the power if you play it very loud, so you can output a loud but non distorted signal.  At all other times, you wont be using the extra power.  Kinda like a corolla and a mercedes sports car both driving to the 50km/hr speed limit, the mercedes has the additional power, but under normal conditions it's not required/used.  Maybe a crap example....

What I'm getting at though is if you're buying a new receiver to get a bit more power and some banana plugs then you're pretty much just giving away your money.  I'd look to ensure you picked up some modern features mainly to ensure there was a bit more substance to the upgrade.  Eg the receiver can decode the latest bluray HD audio tracks for instance, and ensuring your Bluray player can send these out still compressed for a receiver to decode.  Ample hdmi inputs, possible dual hdmi output, can upscale analogue inputs to hdmi outputs, nameable and assignable inputs, possibly some zone 2 action etc etc...