Receiver with wifi, blue tooth, etc..

[Pghpooh]

Looking for a new receiver. My main needs for this new unit is wifi,, Bluetooth and able to access any and all internet radio such as Slacker, etc. Oh,,, also want to be able to access the music I have stored in other computers. No,, I don’t have a nas. (that is in the future. Add Ethernet connection.
Would like to keep the cost to around $500 plus or minus a few bucks. My old unit is a Onkyo tx sr608 that has served me well for over 5 years.
Spent a few days looking on line and got overwhelmed & confused. Lol
Main use now will be fm radio, and internet radio. Over the next year or so will add new tv, dvr,, etc.
Any and all suggestions are needed. Lol

 

[mdram]

most units have wifi now and bluetooth.

but saying any and all internet radio is a killer, not every unit will access every type of internet radio

will the new tv be 4k? do you want to plan for 4k? if so look for hdmi 2.0 and hdcp 2.2

now that said, i just picked up a denon 1100 (last years model)
it does wifi, some internet radio, and some music streaming

i think adding a roku/chrome/fire/ect would be best for streaming from the net or from a pc.
the problem with pc streaming is you will usually need some sort of server/client to make it work properly.

 

[Anubis]

yea ALL internet radio is a stretch/ most of them do Pandora/spotify/XM

beyond that im not sure

Onkyos also do Slacker and Tunein based on their website, denon only lists the 3 above

Pioneer big 3
Yamaha big 3

 

[gus6464]

Marantz NR1606
http://www.accessories4less.com/mak...m-a/v-receiver-wi-fi/bluetooth/airplay/1.html

Supports 4K with HDMI 2.0a and HDCP 2.2 and supports airplay, spotify connect, pandora, etc. out of the box. Also supports up to DSD64 streaming which works flawlessly when using minimserver.

You could also add a mini streamer like a raspberry pi2 with volumio installed which supports basically everything including internet radio.
https://volumio.org/

 

[razel]

Have the NR1606. Love it. Feature rich and iss the cheapest receiver I could find with main pre-outs along with the next gen Dolby Atmos/DTS-X. If you care about music, main pre-out this means that you don't really need to worry much about it's amplifier quality since you can output it to whatever amp you desire. I also measured the output from the pre-amps and they are ROBUST enough to drive the now discountinued Emotiva XPR-1. Those require 6volts RMS of output to get 1000 watts of a sine wave. The NR1606 can output 6v of a sine wave clipped meaning it will output 6v peak (real music) without an issue.

Dolby Atmos/DTS:X's additional 3D channels are useless for HT spaces, but the new codec themselves are truly next gen. It's much closer to how video games have been dealing with 3D audio. They don't even call it a decoder anymore, it's a renderer.

My favorite feature though is the simplest one. Latest firmware seems to have added HDMI auto-switching passthrough... perhaps by mistake. This means you plug all your HDMI devices to the amp and while it is off, it will switch HDMI sources automatically based on if you turned them on.