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"The SR4500 may not be perfectly neutral, but it comes closer than any other budget receiver I've ever heard. The midrange is just slightly warm; compared with the $1,699 Marantz receiver I reviewed two years ago, it has a little less extension in the highest audible frequencies?not a meat-cleaver chopping-off of highs, just a subtle reduction in air. The soundstage is not humongous but is well defined, and you can use the HT-EQ circuit to trade off some detail for size. What's remarkable, though, is how strongly the SR4500 retains the family resemblance. I never felt the need to avoid violins. In fact, the receiver stood up well to Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, with its massed strings and brass delivering storms of dissonance. Hearing this surround mix on Telarc's SACD release with Paavo J?rvi and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra was thrilling, not irritating. While my system's 12- and 8-inch subs were in charge of the thundering tympani?ah, the joys of biamplification?a lot of the percussive information fell above the 80-Hz crossover, and the receiver handled the transition with aplomb."
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