handgunner wrote:
I am looking for a new receiver. The one I have is an old Optimus (Radio Shack). I believe it was made by Pioneer? It still works well. I have 4-18" corner woofers and 2-12" rears of the same make and a brand new Polk center that I just replaced.
Here is my issue ... My CD changer has a 100 CD rack and is skipping. It is old like me. I would like to replace the changer as well as the receiver. It seems that they don't make 100 CD changers anymore, only 300 plus. No big deal.
My receiver is rated at 150 watts. It has old RCA hook ups and no HDMI connections. I am looking at a Yamaha receiver and a Sony CD changer .... feed back?
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Oh boy, I have a similar issue but with newer type technology. We still don't have a Blu-ray player. I have a number of Blu-ray movie that we have to watch with the included DVD. From what I read, all the cheaper current Blu-ray / DVD / CD players are crap. Only the high end ones are rated high. Say a $350 Pioneer Blu-ray! Most bands and models are $80 - $130 and not great. Currently I have a few DVD players. The one connected to our main entertainment system is a Samsung DVD/CD single play unit. It is slowing dying for playing DVDs, it gets about 90 minutes into a movie and then starts to freeze! I've heard of others with the same issue. So I'm considering swapping it for one of my older ones that still functions properly. Not sure if the old ones play odd formats though, like mp3 disks, DVD Audio, or 5.1 Sound DVDs. But no real problem there as I would rarely play such a disk.
It looks like you have a higher end system and may need or want all newer technology. 100 or 300 disk changer. OMG! Personally I am a bit retro and prefer the old 1970-80 vintage Stereo only silver faced Pioneer Receiver I have in storage. All analog. Though the analog radio tuning sucks. At the moment I am using an older all Stereo Yamaha (from the early 5.1 days, but I chose the Stereo only model). I guess you could call it 2.1, two channels plus a sub-woofer. It tunes great but I find the all black face and tiny lights annoying. Even has MX if I had it. Sounds good, I believe it is rated at 100 RMS Watts. from my experiences Yamaha and Pioneer are good brand choices.
I've had mix luck with Sony. Their hand-held and portable audio seems fine. But I also have a third receiver, used Sony 5.1 system I got from a friend. We have it in the bedroom but the room is far too small for 5 speakers! I really don't like its features. We also have a rather pricey Sony three motor Cassette Deck but we got very little use out of it. It was still rather new when the direct drive got out of synch and the tape piles up out of the cassette in the area of the heads, rollers, and spindles. Kinda like an 8-track going nuts. I've yet to have any one look at it. Instead I found a Sony belt drive Cassette Deck at a yard sale and bought it for next to nothing. Replaced the two broken belts and it works like new. I guess I'm more into music audio software than hardware. My Stereo gear is all rather old, 20 to 30 years old (but the Sony Receiver) I have close to 5,000 CDs, LPs, CSs.
I guess if you want it all clean and simple, you need units with the same connectors. As you have asked about. My Audio and Computer technology is all mixed, looks a bit crazy behind the tables and shelves. RCA, Phono, Mini-phono, HDMI, USB2, USB3, Coaxial, Ethernet, Speakers with lamp or extension cord like wire, and shielded cables, adapters every where. I even have a receiver cabled from a turntable to a PC for duping audio. PCs are WiFi'd though. I'm a bit more up to date with computers, 4 core i7 (8 thread), 32GB RAM, Windows 10 Home; and 4 core i5 (4 thread), 8GB RAM, Windows 10 Pro.