Uzmi Novce I Bjezi! wrote:

"Rui Pedro Mendes Salgueiro" wrote in message
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Wow, that was really much :-)

What is the difference between analogue receivers (Denon DRA455 and Harman
Kardon 3380) and digital receivers (all others in the same range of price,
for instance Yamaha RXV457) in quality of sound?

Very very little unless you have difficult or very large speakers.
Moest people find even 10watts per channel to be painffully loud(over
100db per speaker in some cases), so unless you have a difficult speaker
or a party, you will never run any of them loud enough to have the
differences become apparent.

OTOH, this is a good thing - just buy any amp of the three and enjoy.

Since I will mostly listen to my mp3 collection is it better to buy sound
card with digital output and wire it directly into digital input of some
home cinema receiver (which generally has 'worse' sound than analogue
receiver) or to wire it into analogue receiver ?

My suggestion would be to buy a dvd changer for the system(or
CD if that's too expensive) that can play MP3s. You can skip
a link in the chain that way. Most soundcards are made more
for games and sound effects than audio playback, while a
dedicated DVD player sounds good because it has to.

A proper DVD player, btw, will enable you to burn 4.6gig
worth of mp3s onto a DVD. A 5 dvd changer like this is
effectively an IPod.(but one that you can burn and change
at will for a couple of dollars per dvd)