"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"David Looser" wrote in
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A receiver is just an amplifier with a radio tuner in it.

Of course, but around here, a given level of power and performance is
usually cheaper with the tuner thrown in than without it. Something about
sales volumes...

And it's the same around here, but in the context of this thread the term
"AV Amplifier" includes "AV receiver" since the later is simply the former
with an irrelevant tuner included. I didn't see the need to add "or AV
receiver" to my original post. But I do now! (some pedant is bound to make
an issue of an irrelevance).

Talking about sales volumes, have you noticed that virtually all AV
amplifiers (receivers!) are one-box efforts? If you want to keep the power
amps physically separate to make the whole thing more manageable you are
limited to a tiny number of models at silly prices.

David.