Ian,
My budget is appox $2300. The breakdown is:
option 1 vs option 2
Epic 40 Epic 50
Onkyo 797 Onkyo 696
- or -
Denon 3802 Denon 2802
The direct offset of a more expensive speaker system reduces the amount to spend on the receiver. My current receiver is four years old and light years away from current technology. At the time, I spent $1000 on the receiver and thought the amount was adaquate for a replacement. Now I have the speakers influencing my initial thoughts. Living on an island makes speaker and receiver replacement more difficult because I have to ship them and pay 25% duty to the government. That adds about 1k to my price delivered into my house. Pathetic, yes. This makes a person smarten up when investing in a decent system.
As stated, I want the sound to be clean enough to fill my room. It doesn't need to be ridiculously loud (sometimes) but more importantly clean. Will the Epic 40 accomplish this, or is the Epic 50 a more obvious choice and downgrade the receiver. The Onkyo 696 is tested at 50 watts/channel which doesn't seem like a real capable receiver next to the big borther 797.
What are your thoughts. I HATE compromise!!!!!
Thanks,
Mark
