Mike, I believe that in the other thread you mentioned that your listening distance would be around 6-7'. At that distance and in that size room any of the receivers in the 100 watt area are more than enough for listening at comfortably loud(but safe)levels and handling the brief peaks that can occur in some source material. You don't even need a particularly expensive receiver unless there's some feature that you must have. Going "all out" in spending money on this should only apply to something that's of actual benefit.

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