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NAD T763 or Denon 3803 for Defintive Technology

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A friend of mine is looking into HT receivers in the $1k range and was looking at Denon AVR 3803.
I mentioned to him NAD from my experience with stereo hifi as a great bargain. We looked on the web site and he liked numbers on the T762. However, he can not listen to it in the St. Louis area since there are no dealers.
Do any of you have any recommendations?
He is driving 6ohm speakers and I would tend to believe that the NAD would be more capable of driving this load. He only is running 5 channels now and doesn't have room for many more- so 6.1 vs 7.1 really isn't important.
However, does anyone know the actual power rating of the NAD- different places on the web site have different numbers. I know they are heavily under rated, but the actual numbers would be great. Also- what kind of DACs does it use?- are they any good?
Thanks for any advice you can give me. By the way, he wants to buy new with a warranty.
thanks,
Larry

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Re: NAD T763 or Denon 3803 for Defintive Technology - AbeCollins 22:05:01 07/04/03 (0)
I'm running a Denon 3803 into 6 Ohm Tannoy speakers with excellent results. They are fairly easy loads though at about 91dB sens.
My only issue with NAD is based on a prior experience about 6 years ago. I bought a new $399 NAD receiver for my office (forgot the model) and found the amp section to sound somewhat compressed and not very dynamic. This was with typical consumer bookshelf speakers - Boston Acoustics I think. Several months later I purchased a $200 Onkyo receiver that easily outperformed the more expensive NAD. It was more 'open' and alive and able to drive the same speakers with ease w/o sounding compressed and strained like the NAD. I still have that NAD packed away somewhere in the basement.
Also check out the Rotel 1055 - jk@home 03:00:14 07/02/03 (0)
Supposedly has a similar preamp stage as the 1066 pre/pro, which got a good review in SGHT. IMHO, looks cleaner then most of the others out there.
I bought one of these yesterday for under $1200, has a 5 year warranty, and a service port that you can hook up to your computer for factory firmware updates.

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