Im in need of a new home theater reciever for my room. My older sony reciever finally gave out the other day, and i cant stand listening to my games and movies through my tv speakers! I dont have too much money to spend on one(roughly $200). I found a couple Harman Kardon HK AVR 247's on ebay that were going for a good price, and i was wondering if that reciever will suit my setup. If not, could someone point me in the right direction? I have Polk monitor 50 floorstanders, polk r15 rears, and a Polk CS1 center. Its manly 50% games, 25% music, and 25% movies. thanks

Edited November 5, 200915 yr by mwerling1212

Anyone have input on this reciever? I need to get one before call of duty mw2 comes out!

I have not used that unit, but I have not heard any negative reviews on HK receivers. Are there any certain features other then a 5.1?

here are the features:

EzSet/EQ™ automated setup (microphone supplied)

Graphic on-screen display with HDMI, component, composite and S-video

Two-line dot-matrix front-panel display

Color-coded connections

Programmable 11-device main remote control

Source input renaming

A/V Sync Delay

RS-232 serial port for system upgrades

Switched accessory power outlet

Remote infrared (IR) input and output

Multiroom IR input

The AVR 247 is Simplay HD-verified for compatibility via the HDMI connection with other Simplay HD-verified products.

Audio Section

50 Watts x 7, seven channels driven at full power at 8 ohms, 20Hz – 20kHz, <0.07% THD (surround modes), 350 watts total

65 Watts x 2, two channels driven at full power at 8 ohms, 20Hz – 20kHz, <0.07% THD (surround off mode), 130 watts total

High-current capability, ultrawide-bandwidth amplifier design with low negative feedback

All-discrete amplifier circuitry

Dual independent power supplies, for front and surround channels

Quadruple-crossover bass management

24-Bit, twin-core Cirrus Logic® CS 49510 DSP processor with 32-bit postprocessor

192kHz/24-bit D/A conversion

Sampling upconversion to 96kHz

Surround Modes

Dolby® Digital EX

Dolby Pro Logic® II and IIx (Movie, Music and Game)

Dolby Virtual Speaker version 2 (Reference two- or three-speaker; wide two-, three-, four- or five-speaker)

Dolby Headphone Version 2

DTS® (5.1; DTS stereo; DTS-ES® 6.1 discrete and matrix)

DTS 96/24™ (DTS stereo)

DTS Neo:6® (Cinema 3-, 5- or 6-channel; music 5- or 6-channel)

Logic 7® (cinema, music and enhance – 5.1 and 7.1)

Hall 1 and Hall 2 (5- or 6-channel)

Theater (5- or 6-channel)

5- or 7-Channel stereo

Surround Off (DSP or analog bypass)

Audio Inputs

AM/FM/XM®* tuner

CD

Tape

6-/8-Channel direct

/DMP for iPod** connectivity with audio/video playback Audio/Video Inputs (With S-Video)

4 composite video, video 4 (on front panel)

DVD

Three assignable 100MHz component video inputs

Simplay HD™-verified HDMI™ 1 and 2 (with audio/video processing and 1080p pass-through)

DCDi® by Faroudja video processing

Transcodes composite and S-video to component video

Transcodes 480i video to HDMI format, with upscaling up to 720p

Upgraded graphic text-based on-screen displays

Digital Audio Inputs

Coaxial: two rear-panel/one front-panel

Optical: two rear-panel/one front-panel

Outputs

7.1-Channel preamp outputs

Tape (analog audio)

Video 1 (analog audio and video)

Video monitor (composite, S-video and component)

Digital audio (one coaxial, one optical

Hk has always been good quality stuff. I'd go with it, especially for that price.

thanks for the help once again guys!