Just purchased these 2 items
An AIWA XK-009 tape decks and a NAD C 427 Receiver.
Both are cosmetically perfect and appear to have minimal to no wear, price paid total US$60.00 for both.
Great deck. My tech will only work on 3 head units. It will need some cleaning and calibration no doubt.
Of all the audio and TV's I've bought, this is the piece of equipment that has failed the most.
I have grown to hate surround receivers...
Our first one was an Arcam Diva A85 back in the very early 2000's, which lasted about 10 years I think. When it died, getting it repaired was going to be more than a new Denon,. so we bought a Denon. It again lasted about 10 years, and when it died we bought a Yamaha that had a 5 year warranty.
It dies within a year, needing a board replaced as the screen on the TV was sort of overlayed with green all the time.
Got it back and within a year it crapped out again, this time with no signal coming from the receiver to the TV.
Repaired again under warranty, and in about a year same thing - no signal. The dealer was good with getting it fixed, but this was beginning to be a hassle I didn't want to deal with anymore.
So even though it was still under warranty, I sprung for this (they had a sale on and I got a good discount by giving them back the Yamaha):
Anthem MRX 540 - Canadian company and hopefully one that will last at least 10 years, which seems to be the max life for this particular piece of equipment. Of all the audio and TV's I've bought, this is the piece of equipment that has failed the most. Most of my audio gear just keeps going and going, but the receivers seems to crap out pretty regularly. Anyone else find the
I am looking at replacing my outlaw processor and am looking at one of these. it鈥檚 nice and compact at least. I have in wall speakers for my surround system and really only need 5.1 channels. all of the processors out there have a million channels these days. Anthem has a minimalistic 5.1 surround receiver but it does not have line outs and very little power. But anyway, do you think the MXR 540 has enough power to drive some power hungry speakers? I have amps, but one box sounds pretty nice.
I dunno. I had a Yamaha surround sound system that I bought in 2004. Used it everyday for TV viewing and it lasted until 2024, when a small puff of white smoke signaled the end of its life.
I replaced with another Yamaha, this time from their Aventage line, RX-A780.
You must have gotten a lemon. It happens.
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One thing to consider is how complex these units are. A two-channel amplifier is a very simple device in comparison. Home theatre receivers are everything-but-the-kitchen-sink when it comes to complexity.
I have grown to hate surround receivers...
Our first one was an Arcam Diva A85 back in the very early 2000's, which lasted about 10 years I think. When it died, getting it repaired was going to be more than a new Denon,. so we bought a Denon. It again lasted about 10 years, and when it died we bought a Yamaha that had a 5 year warranty.
It dies within a year, needing a board replaced as the screen on the TV was sort of overlayed with green all the time.
Got it back and within a year it crapped out again, this time with no signal coming from the receiver to the TV.
Repaired again under warranty, and in about a year same thing - no signal. The dealer was good with getting it fixed, but this was beginning to be a hassle I didn't want to deal with anymore.
So even though it was still under warranty, I sprung for this (they had a sale on and I got a good discount by giving them back the Yamaha):
Anthem MRX 540 - Canadian company and hopefully one that will last at least 10 years, which seems to be the max life for this particular piece of equipment. Of all the audio and TV's I've bought, this is the piece of equipment that has failed the most. Most of my audio gear just keeps going and going, but the receivers seems to crap out pretty regularly. Anyone else find the same?
Yes, clearly. But even things with mechanical components that do hard work (transports in CD and DVD players for example) the failure rate is not nearly as high for me personally. The dealer's repair guy basically said he hates HDMI and feels this is where the weak point is - all 3 of the failures of my Yamaha were related to the HDMI board.
Any issues I have had are always based around that HDMI interface with a number of different fixes such as correct HDMI cable or other connection issues requiring resets from the supply device. I can appreciate their repair guys frustration as this industry standard seems to have many holes in it either that or the various manufactures are adhering to their own proprietary standards which causes glitches.
This is plenty enough to run 2 floor standing 3-way Tannoys for front R and L, plus a center channel, and two smaller Tannoy bookshelf speakers for the rears - subwoofer is powered. Plenty of volume for our use. This model is 100 WPC into 8 ohms, but they have more powerful models as well, up to 140 WPC.
If you have really inefficient speakers or a very large room it might not be enough, but I don't find it underpowered at all. At least not in the 3 days we have had it...
HDMI is such a garbage connector and the organization backing the standards is too. Massive rip-off. Really wish consumer devices had more robust connectors. Micro-HDMI is even worse, almost unusable due to being super fragile.
Is anyone here using a digital/streaming front end?
I picked up a ZEN Stream about a year ago. Using Qobuz for 24-bit streaming.
It sounds great and is mega convenient. Qobuz has an insanely wide selection from all genres. Highly recommend it.
