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Home theatre receiver question...

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FearoftheNight

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I am considering an upgrade from my Philips FR-968 receiver to a Sherwood 6108. Do you think this would be an upgrade? Thanks in advance.

Current Setup:
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Being hooked up to 5.1 speakes in my room and mainly input from nforce2 soundstorm on my pc. The guys on hotdeals are raving about how sherwood makes great budget receivers.
 
Originally posted by: jtusa4
Generally speaking I'd stay away from Sherwood. What is/will it be used for?
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I agree with this comment.

I am guessing that the philips came in an HIB system (home theater in a box)? i can't find any specs it. But it seems that they are "lower" end receivers. Honestly if youre that worried about it I would keep what you have now and save or a more mid range receiver from one of the more brand names, IE marantz, harmon karmon, onkyo. You can get a really sweet receiver for abou $300-500. Christmas season is approaching and there are sure to be sales on them. Thats just my 2cents.
 
Thanks for your help syrch. Do you think I would hear a difference from my soundstorm? I hear some people say its not the best example of DD due to its encoding. Not sure if it can even encode in dts or whatever. In any case do you know I mean if its worth it over my current one? Yes I got it in a HTIB set for about I think $250 about 4 years ago. Thanks. I'm a poor college student so I dont' go overboard with the stuff.
 
Originally posted by: jtusa4
Generally speaking I'd stay away from Sherwood. What is/will it be used for?
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But, you do realize that Sherwood makes several of the H/T receivers for other companies, right?


 
Originally posted by: Tiles2Tech
Originally posted by: jtusa4
Generally speaking I'd stay away from Sherwood. What is/will it be used for?
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But, you do realize that Sherwood makes several of the H/T receivers for other companies, right?
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The badged Sherwoods are crap.
 
Originally posted by: Tiles2Tech
Originally posted by: jtusa4
Generally speaking I'd stay away from Sherwood. What is/will it be used for?
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But, you do realize that Sherwood makes several of the H/T receivers for other companies, right?
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Get to work on that pic!
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Originally posted by: Kelvrick
Originally posted by: FearoftheNight
Originally posted by: Kelvrick
Why dont you spend like 150-200 on a refurbed onkyo from ecost.com?
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SuggestioN? Link plz?
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doesn't look like you need anything fancy.
just get this
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Aye. those are great.

Also of interest is that FearoftheNight is the first person on the internet to type "upgrade" in reference to purchasing a sherwoord reciever😉
 
I know nothing baout my current one. So I figured its been a few years. I mean a low end video card now would stomp the top of the line 4 years ago right?

Also...since I am mainly ussing an nf2 onboard duno ...will the receiver matteR?
 
Originally posted by: Kelvrick
Originally posted by: FearoftheNight
Originally posted by: Kelvrick
Why dont you spend like 150-200 on a refurbed onkyo from ecost.com?
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SuggestioN? Link plz?
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doesn't look like you need anything fancy.
just get this
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:thumbsup: to Onkyo. I use an Onkyo receiver and love it. My only complaint is that I need more inputs. I've simply outgrown it. Just have to save up for my Yamaha RXZ9. 😛
 
Originally posted by: FearoftheNight
When are you getting your new receiver and can I buy off your old one? 😀
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Haha, got $5000 I can borrow for the new one? Plus another $10K-$15K for new speakers to compliment it?

Yamaha RXZ9
 
It'll be hard to say if youre going to hear a difference. Im sure that your speakers aren't rated as the best out there so you probably won't. Now on a side note to that, if you were to upgrade your speakers in the future you would definetly hear a difference being it supports the newer sound formats, IE DTS-ES, and Dolby Pro Logic IIx which are great for movies and games. Now im sure many people here will say speakers are speakers but any audiophile will definetly tell you otherwise. I recently got a onkyo TX-NR801 http://www.us.onkyo.com/model....class=Receiver&amp;p=i and am completely sold on their receivers.
 
I have the Pioneer Elite and just love it...spent $800 on it but this is the only receiver that I will ever need, has 7.1 output and its loaded
 
Originally posted by: jtusa4
Originally posted by: FearoftheNight
When are you getting your new receiver and can I buy off your old one? 😀
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Haha, got $5000 I can borrow for the new one? Plus another $10K-$15K for new speakers to compliment it?

Yamaha RXZ9
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You'd be surprsied how fast the high end of consumer audio depreciates - I got an unused open box (2 years after it's heyday) Yamha RX-V3000 for under $450, list price in 2002 was $1999.

Ditto on the speakers - when I was into it, I had a set of B&amp;W Matrix 803s... Again, paid about 1/3 of retail.... ah, the good old days of college, where any bit of income was discretionary income. lol.
 
Originally posted by: flot
Originally posted by: jtusa4
Originally posted by: FearoftheNight
When are you getting your new receiver and can I buy off your old one? 😀
Click to expand...

Haha, got $5000 I can borrow for the new one? Plus another $10K-$15K for new speakers to compliment it?

Yamaha RXZ9
Click to expand...

You'd be surprsied how fast the high end of consumer audio depreciates - I got an unused open box (2 years after it's heyday) Yamha RX-V3000 for under $450, list price in 2002 was $1999.

Ditto on the speakers - when I was into it, I had a set of B&amp;W Matrix 803s... Again, paid about 1/3 of retail.... ah, the good old days of college, where any bit of income was discretionary income. lol.
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my dad wants me to ask you this: "WHERE??!??!!?!??!?!"
 
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