How about Denon or HK?
For Denon, try Mission, Monitor Audio and B&W.
For HK, some members like Wharfe. But I've heard an HK-Wharfe audition, and I didn't like it. It's fine for music, but on movies, it lacks bite. Detail and clarity are a bit less than I would prefer for movies.
HK with JBL speakers and HK with Klipsch speakers sound very good.
Although OT, it would be nice if you could post, as far as you could recall, the best match for each brand of speaker and receiver for the benefit of the newbies here. 
I honestly don't think I'm qualified to give a rundown of matching receivers and speakers.
I'm sure sir Matzter can do a much better job. That guy auditions anything he can get his hands on
I suggest that you post an inquiry on the thread of the specific receiver/speaker you're interested in. That way, we'd have a better chance of gettting reliable answers.
sir barrister, just a question, I use a SONY STRDE-835 receiver, as per those who have knowledge with my AVR, they said that it also is on the warm side, when I paired it with a wharfdale diamond set, it sucked. I only fixed the problem by tuning my amps x-over and eq to death.
I'm not familiar with the Sony receivers, but I can say this much: If you need a lot of tuning and EQ to get the sound right, then that's a sure sign of receiver-speaker mismatch.
Personally, I avoid processing because I want the encoded material to be reproduced as accurately as possible.
On well-authored discs, the sound should be perfect or near-perfect with zero processing. You should need tuning only on poorly mastered discs.
would this be an issue of being overly warm? i don't think thats a good sound characteristic for HT (movie viewing). Ive heard from numerous members swearing that the HK and Wharf Diamond combo is a winner.
Yes, it could be an issue of being overly warm. That's not good for movies, since you lose the clarity and details necessary to accurately reproduce high frequency effects and imaging.
I've also heard praises about the HK-Wharfe Diamond combination, but I'm of a different opinion. To me, dialog is not clear enough; and high frequency effects are not sharp enough.
Maybe matching is very very important for wharfdales???
Actually, matching is critical for any receiver-speaker combination. If you don't get it right, it's going to be very hard to get a good-sounding system.
That's why I'm puzzled as to why the subject of matching has been neglected for some years in this forum.
As for Wharfedales, they are truly well-made speakers using top-notch design and materials.
The problem is that they are not neutral-sounding speakers. But there's nothing wrong with them; they're just intentionally designed that way.
Wharfedale's sound signature is characteristic of the "British sound", which is more laid-back than the more forward, in-your-face "American sound".
Wharfedales are designed to work well for receivers that are neutral-sounding to bright.
gonna buy those 9.1s din tomorrow, na audition ko na, ok lang ba i pair sa teac ag-15d or kenwood krf v6070?
Wala akong balita sa combination na yan. Pero ang napansin ko, kung TEAC or Kenwood, sa 5th Avenue ka siguro tumitingin?
They have a bad reputation in this forum. Please browse this before deciding:
http://pinoydvd.com/board/index.php?topic=42532.0
