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It is really odd that two different makes of drives failed at the same time. When I build large arrays I always use at least two different manufacturer's disks together. I found out the hard way that within a single manufacturing batch all the drives have about the same life expectancy. I had a five disk RAID5 with a hot spare. When one of the drives failed it started the rebuild onto the spare. While thrashing about to recreate the missing parity data a second drive failed, lost everything at that point. That's not supposed to happen either.

Yeah its funny, the further along we come technologically, the worse off we seem to get. Everything seems so damn fragile anymore.

Fred, although you didn't unplug during the storm, I assume that you tried that move for a while now to see if it would reset?

::runs to livingroom to unplug avr::

Um...

Thanks for the suggestion John. I will plug it in again when I get up.

In the mean time I did some reading on receivers. The three I looked at were the Denon 2309Ci (on clerance locally for $799), the Denon 790 basic, beefy and reasonably inexpensive at $650 and the Onkyo 707 on pre-order special at $799.

The 2309 does not seem like that great a deal. It dosn't seem to offer much more than the 790 that I care about. The sales guy made a big deal about it being manufactured in Japan and the extra power, but it only offers up 15wpc more than the 790.

For the same price (pre-order) the Onkyo707 offers pre-outs should I ever feel under powered as well as zone 2 pre-outs.

The 790 weighs in at $650 on sale and will certainly be enough power for now. It also offers improved upscaling from the 2309 and 707.

For my fellow Canadians, how do these prices look to you? I didn't have much time to look around. I guess I'll sleep on it for now.

Hi Fred,

Best Buy has the Denon 790 on sale for $599.99.

Hi Fred, you might want to check out Audio Video Unlimited , they carry Denon and Pioneer AVR's. I've dealt with them before and they gave me excellent deals on my 2809 + BD1800 as well as my Paradigm sub. Nobody came close on their pricing for either of these...their prices are not "final", you can dicker with them. Also, if you want to consider an HK, you might want to contact Telecity Electronics , they don't like to advertise their prices but when you go in person, they always seem to know what all the competitors are asking(they have a list of their prices I believe) and undercut them. I picked up my Samsung there at an excellent price. You could contact Kennedy HiFi, Kromer Radio, Bay Bloor Radio or East Hamilton Radio and see what they could do for you. Good luck.

Just thought I'd second Adrian's opinion Audio Video Unlimited. My local shop I have referred to in this forum is a member of this chain and I have had the same experience on pricing as Adrian. Except for my Axiom's that's where all my equipment has come from. In addition to good pricing they all know their stuff, so it's not like you're dealing with the FS or BB sales guy who really doesn't understand what he's trying to sell you

Sorry to hear that Fred! That's two expensive Bangs for us. With my last name being akin to Murphy's Laws, I just come to expect these things and take them in stride but I feel bad for you.

Perhaps you can take solace in the old saying we use on the trails... "There is no such thing as breakage, just opportunities for upgrades."

The old receiver is still dead, so...

After all my deliberations, it turns out the local store had a floor model 2808 they were blowing out. Just what the doctor ordered.

I get my pre-outs, 2 12v triggers and a little more juice. The trade off is a slightly older scaler and only 2 HDMI in, but I don't expect to have a lot of HDMI components that need to be hooked in.

OK not sure what receiver you have, but did you try a manual reset? Some other guy on the SC-05/SC-07 forum on the other forum just had a power outage. His receiver was just blinking one light afterwards and would not come back on. Well the thread had a way to force a reset of the receiver and that fixed it.

It basically went into a safe mode due to the power surge and won't come out on its own. Not sure if something like that exists for your receiver