Target1
04-30-06, 07:25 PM
Howdy all,
This is my first post here, and I would like to say hello. The short questions is that I'm looking for a decent A/V receiver. I am going to be a law student next year in Boston, and will be moving into my first apartment. I am a bit of a headphone junkie, and have a set of Sennheiser HD-580s, and some Grado SR225s, as well as a Gilmore Lite headphone amp. My current 'rig' consists of a cheap A/V switch with 4 imputs, and one output, an old VCR, an old Kenwood audio receiver, all leading into a set of Bose speakers (2.1 system) (please don't flame the Bose speakers, I got them when I was 14 with my summer earnings on my dad's advice that they were the best), and a 20 inch Dell LCD monitor via s-video. This was just background, and I apologize for the long set up. Here is what I envision for next year. For movies I will have an external 320 Gig harddrive wired to my 15inch macbook pro (don't have any of this quite yet, but I've been saving, and will have it). These will hook into my yet unchosen receiver. Further, I'll have a mediocre Kenwood 5-disc changer for CDs, digital cable, and a dual VCR, DVD playey for inputs. For outputs I'll have my speakers and headphone amp (which has a loop out if that helps). I've done some reading on recievers, and have been looking at the outlaw 1050 as a possible candidate. At $300-$350 used, this is probably the absolute top of my price spectrum at this point. Should I go with a separate video, and audio receivers? Is $300 too much to spend given the rest of my system? I'm fairly new to the whole A/V thing, though I know quite a bit about headphone audio. Thanks for any help.
Target
PS I'll be reading through threads and doing research for the next couple of days, so if this questions has been asked countless times I'll find that out soon, and apologize for asking it yet again.
This is my first post here, and I would like to say hello. The short questions is that I'm looking for a decent A/V receiver. I am going to be a law student next year in Boston, and will be moving into my first apartment. I am a bit of a headphone junkie, and have a set of Sennheiser HD-580s, and some Grado SR225s, as well as a Gilmore Lite headphone amp. My current 'rig' consists of a cheap A/V switch with 4 imputs, and one output, an old VCR, an old Kenwood audio receiver, all leading into a set of Bose speakers (2.1 system) (please don't flame the Bose speakers, I got them when I was 14 with my summer earnings on my dad's advice that they were the best), and a 20 inch Dell LCD monitor via s-video. This was just background, and I apologize for the long set up. Here is what I envision for next year. For movies I will have an external 320 Gig harddrive wired to my 15inch macbook pro (don't have any of this quite yet, but I've been saving, and will have it). These will hook into my yet unchosen receiver. Further, I'll have a mediocre Kenwood 5-disc changer for CDs, digital cable, and a dual VCR, DVD playey for inputs. For outputs I'll have my speakers and headphone amp (which has a loop out if that helps). I've done some reading on recievers, and have been looking at the outlaw 1050 as a possible candidate. At $300-$350 used, this is probably the absolute top of my price spectrum at this point. Should I go with a separate video, and audio receivers? Is $300 too much to spend given the rest of my system? I'm fairly new to the whole A/V thing, though I know quite a bit about headphone audio. Thanks for any help.
Target
PS I'll be reading through threads and doing research for the next couple of days, so if this questions has been asked countless times I'll find that out soon, and apologize for asking it yet again.