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**Bill Riel**

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In article , "Uzmi Novce I Bjezi!"
wrote:

I'm planning to buy receiver + floorstanding loudspeakers for hi-fi (not
home cinema) purpose.

I would mostly listen to mp3's (all kinds) and radio.

I prefer quality of sound over technical possibilities.

If you're listening to MP3's and radio, you have no concept of quality
sound.

Disagree - at least *I* can't tell high bitrate, LAME encoded MP3's from
original source. I doubt many people (if any) could.

Any radio shack junk will suit.

Now scram!

Wow! What a friendly welcome!

Anyway, to the Original Poster - That's quite a list, and I haven't
listened to anything on it. I do have some familiarity with some Yamaha
and Denon receivers and I've found them to be fine - in general I'd
recommend that you go for a receiver with lots of power. 100 wpc should
be just fine.

For speakers, you are going to have to listen to them yourself and see
what you like. I'd personally put as much of your budget to speakers as
you can afford. At the lower price range, I would recommend looking into
Paradigm, Axiom, NHT. For a bit more money PSB, B&W are good brands to
look into.

But, it's your system and you are the one who has to like it - do some
listening first.

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Bill