Invictus76

Yeah I would love to be able to afford a $3000 reciever but that's just not in the cards. What are your thoughts on this one? http://www.bestbuy.ca/en-CA/product/onkyo-onkyo-945-watt-7-2-channel-network-receiver-tx-nr818-tx-nr818/10201675.aspx?path=f363e777858744fbc8238d5744ba64a6en02&SearchPageIndex=1

The Receiver I'm using is a Yamaha HTR-5840 6.1. It has all the maunal calibration settings which I've gone threw as well as some cross over settings. It's about 5 to 6 years old I think however when I purchased the 82's the fella at Future Shop told me that an older receiver was actually better. As far as power goes at 85wats per channel I can crank everything up and it will put you right out of the room. I just wondered if more power would bring out more sound in the speakers. I'm not talking raw volume, I mean more depth in the music, bring more sound out. I do have a Sony CD player that goes threw an E.Q. I did play with it a bit but couldn't get it sounding any better then the PS3. The HZ settings on the PS3 are all set to max and as I said it sounded really good on the 82,s. I like the PS3 as it's just nice to have a platform that stores and catagorizes all your music. Plus I have over 1200 songs right at my finger tips. I apologize for my lack of knowledge but I don't quite understand what running seprates means. I take it this is a sperate amp. So you run everything from your reciever into the seprate amp?? And does the sperate amp still run your music as well as you HT?? I've experimented with the speaker placement in this room and feel I've got it pretty good.

I'm new to forums and not sure where to post this but I'll try here. I'm just getting into the higher end HT stuff. I year ago I bought the RF82 HT package from Future Shop. I was amazed at how they sounded. The music was great and the way the horns tickled your ears with everysound was awesome. Then I saw the RF7ii's and thought they have to sound even better. I've had my 7's for about 2 months now, have sold my 82's, and frankly am struggling with them a bit. The highs in some of the songs don't jump out at you like they did with the 82's, just not as in your face as the 82's and some of the songs you can actually her cracking. Don't get me wrong they sound good, but they don't seem as good as my 82's were. At double the price I would think they would be way better. So I'm looking for any suggestions on what I can do to remedy this as again I'm some what new to the higher end stuff. They rock when you put a movie on. There awesome. It's the music stuff I'm struggling with. My HTR is only 85 watts per channel so I'm assuming getting something with more power would help out a lot. I've also heard that Yamaha receivers aren't a great match for the 7's. Can anyone suggest a good receiver that will sound good for movies and music? The PS3 handles all my music and most of the MP3's I"m using are imported to the highest quality. Any suggestions would be awesome and thanks in advance for helping a noob.