Ah, here we go. The argument about receiver sound quality.

There is debate over this on the boards, but I think it's fairly safe to say that if you are sticking with receivers, barring different processing, equalization, and tone controls, the sound quality at that level is pretty much equal across the board.

If you're looking at outboard amps, then the debate gets a little murkier, and a lot depends on how loud you are going.

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