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In Reply to: AV Receivers - Harman Kardon AVR525, AVR7200 vs Pioneer VSX-47TX posted by Uncle Pete on May 19, 2003 at 14:08:46:
Don't know much about the other receivers, but I just purchased the 47-TX based on some positive reviews. If you're used to the warmth of tubes, you might want to stay away from this beast. I bought this receiver based on the recommendation of a talented speaker builder in CA, since I own his speakers also. He also sent me a test CD-R with some dynamic recordings by the likes of Mapleshades and Chesky, which have a razor-sharp quality that is quite vivid and very much "alive". His CDR sounded really good, and just about every other CD I own...sounded like crap. Brash and not life-like at all. If you like any popular recordings at all, they are rendered almost unlistenable from the output of this component, to my ears. Just about all the recordings I thought were pretty good before sounded somewhat tinny with subdued basses. The basses are present, but are not supportive of the unruly trebles. DVD-A fared no better. I have "Brian Salad Surgery" in this format, and the trebles could peel paint of the walls! Greg Lake's acoustic guitar sounds more like a harpsicord, it is so thinned out. I have the Classic Records DAD of Kenny Drew's "Undercurrent", which has a good ride cymbal sound, but sounds largely overmodulated and becomes irritating to listen to. Most of my MFSL gold disks dont pass the test either. Certain things from "The Wall" and "Who Are You" sound fine, and other songs sound sucky. The mix winds up sounding imbalanced and compressed on tracks that this receiver doesn't like. My cat even goes nuts! The direct mode feature is supposed to present the music in an unprocessed manner, but it still doesn't sound flat, it sounds as if there is an EQ spike going on somewhere. The auto EQ feature was fast but not impressive--I could do better by ear.I have contacted other people who have reviewed this machine favorably, and they admit that the 2 channel direct mode sounds somewhat harsh. The effect is not unlike listening to a Dolby C cassette with the noise filters off. I don't know what a multi-channel configuration will sound like yet, but if this receiver wasn't meant to play in stereo, why give the option?
If anyone has a theory as to why such a high end receiver would *color* the sound the way it does I'm definitely open to suggestions. Regardless of this, the 47TX and other Elite components seem to get a lot of respect.
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