I took a chance...

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For the last couple of years I've been "laboring" along with a 20 year old Onkyo reciever. I put that in parens because my TX-SV90Pro was top of the line when it was built ($1200 in 1990!)and is the best receiver I have ever had. However....after buying an Oppo player it really started to seem like the only thing it did was produce two channel sound. Great sound...but only two channels.
Then, last night a beautiful condition Cambridge 340R came on E-flay and I hopped and got it for $157. It really is everything I wanted. Simple with good sound being paramount. It has 5.1 ins, 5 discreet amps, toroidal transformer, HDMI ins and outs, digital sound processing for my Squeezebox...but it only has 50 watts/channel compared to my Onk's 100, but what the hell, I have a really small living room.
I'm not trading in the Onk, but it will go onto the shelf until I get this sorted and decide if the 340R is right. Then it will go into storage for my daughter.
Anything I should look out for on this unit?

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Topic - I took a chance... - Lewis Moon 10:11:06 09/28/10 (4)

nice unit. - Prisoners 10:50:37 09/28/10 (3)

RE: nice unit. - Lewis Moon 11:35:40 09/28/10 (2)

RE: nice unit. - Kal Rubinson 15:16:11 09/28/10 (1)

sub input - Prisoners 16:16:17 09/28/10 (0)

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