Hi All,

Looking to upgrade from my ancient Sony GA8ES receiver to a new receiver.

I have $700 as my max for budget. I am really intrigued by the whole 'ez set/auto calibration' type deal and was looking for some pros and cons about the following receivers: Pioneer Elite VSX 53TX ($647 etronics.com), Yamaha 1400/2400 ($570 and $670 etronics.com) and the Harman Kardon 525 ($570 etrontics.com).

My system is a pair of M60s, a VP100, and two ADS L300's as my rear speakers, no sub yet and no plans to go beyond a 5.1 set up. My sources are a Harman Kardon DVD 50 and a TiVo/RCA DSS receiver.

Asthetically the HK would match my DVD player (but this isn't too important to me) and it has HDCD which I feel makes a difference on HDCD discs...but I suppose I can always let the DVD 50 do the HDCD decoding to a different input via good ol' RCA type cables.

Please feel free to share any thoughts on the above receivers and how they would match up in my system...and maybe suggest a few others...

Thanks for your time.