Wash,

Audiophiles do have some strange descriptions. Its quite hard sometimes to put into words, much like wine tasting :-). Someone made an attempt at explaining here http://dtmblabber.blogspot.com/2010/07/audiophile-buzzwords-dicey-subject.html

In fact, with AV receivers some audiophiles are very particular with speakers. A 10 year old speaker would cost more than a year old one :-). Some picky ones would buy a brand new one and let it run a couple of days so that bass drivers could be less punchy! 

On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:

Occasional brightness to the treble?? I give up!

On 13 March 2014 12:20, ndungu stephen <ndungustephen@gmail.com> wrote:

About the Denon AVRs :

1) Can they play DVDs/BluRay ? 

2) Can they play *AVI *MP4 movies ?

3) How come they do not have Bluetooth/Wifi ?

For

• Solid build, nicely put together
• Good spec
• Wide range of network features
• Slick remote apps
• Superbly detailed and entertaining sound

Against

• Occasional brightness to the treble at loud volume
• No wi-fi or Bluetooth

http://www.whathifi.com/review/denon-avr-x2000

BR/

On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Peter Karunyu <pkarunyu@gmail.com> wrote:

My friend actually bought a Yamaha YHT498 from Amazon, paid using his coop card, and including shipping, the total cost was about 40k or so. This was about 1 year or so ago.

@Odhiambo, the audio giants prefer an AV Receiver NOT to come with speakers, that way, they can go out and buy the best speakers as per their needs. Onkyo may make excellent AVR, but not necessarily the best speakers. Its like the best of both worlds; best AVR + best speakers = audio heaven.

However, some AVRs do come with speakers.

Not only can that Yamaha play movies, it can also play Blue Ray discs, comes with an SD card slot and USB slot as standard. So yes, it can play movies.

On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 10:09 AM, wa <wanangu@gmail.com> wrote:

Check out this guys on BlisStylz they got AV receivers .

On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Benjamin Muraguri <muraguri@gmail.com> wrote:

@Dennis, I'm in a similar position to you, so do tell if you make any headway with this. I'm settling for the home theatre in a box option after having looked for a an AVR-speaker package without much luck. For the bass you're looking for an active subwoofer performs better.

@Bernard, pricing and speaker options?

On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:

Dennis, si wewe ni audio giant?? Hebu endea AV receiver utatuambia.

On 13 March 2014 09:

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