BudgetListener
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Hello good people,
Somewhat long story. The AV bug caught me in 2017. I purchased a Benq projector in 2017 and coupled it with a Samsung floor-standing 2.2 powered speakers for a long time. Post the lockdown towards the end of 2020, I planned to upgrade my audio setup. Since the AV receivers prices were high (I had been tracking the prices for a while), I went with pre-owned ones. I found a pretty good deal for an Onkyo receiver on Olx. I visited this person, late-40s with two grown kids. He was cordial and nothing looked fishy. I purchased the receiver and then ordered a pair of bookshelf speakers which was supposed to arrive 2 days later. The receiver + 2.0 setup worked fine. I was overjoyed. I added a center speaker of the same brand and then purchased a Polk HTS12. Everything was fine until I purchased surround speakers and connected them. Something was wrong. The left and right surround speakers always played the same sound even in the test tones. Even the AV receiver setup white noise would come from both the speakers in surround right, nothing would come when set to surround left. I was stupid and I did not even know about this way of testing receivers at that time, so I trusted this guy. I called him back and he refused to take it back. I sensed something fishy and researched further. Turns out he had posted an ad on Olx mentioning this issue a week ago, but had deleted it and then posted a new ad without a mention of the issue. I confronted him about this and he simply refunded 2000 bucks via Gpay and refused to take his receiver back. A lesson learned the hard way.
This AV receiver worked fine for 4 months and then died. It was a pretty old model so repairing it seems out of question. Now I started looking for brand new receivers and zeroed in on either Denon's X1600H or 2700H. This has been even more frustrating for me. Dealers here in Bangalore do not want to sell just the receiver at recent prices mentioned in the posts here unless you purchase "speakers and receiver packages" from them. Even sellers who members here have mentioned have given great deals refused that they have ever given such low prices (e.g. Pratham Arora AV shack quoted a final price of 60K for 1600H two months ago). ProFx Bangalore does not even budge from 67,000 for 1600H which is ridiculous, to be honest. Indiamart throws some shady unknown dealers and I do not want to risk getting burned again with a lemon or gray market product.
Now I am sitting with a 5.1 speaker package but without an AV receiver to power them. I would be glad if members here can help me out with a legitimate dealer where you got a good deal. Thank you.
Somewhat long story. The AV bug caught me in 2017. I purchased a Benq projector in 2017 and coupled it with a Samsung floor-standing 2.2 powered speakers for a long time. Post the lockdown towards the end of 2020, I planned to upgrade my audio setup. Since the AV receivers prices were high (I had been tracking the prices for a while), I went with pre-owned ones. I found a pretty good deal for an Onkyo receiver on Olx. I visited this person, late-40s with two grown kids. He was cordial and nothing looked fishy. I purchased the receiver and then ordered a pair of bookshelf speakers which was supposed to arrive 2 days later. The receiver + 2.0 setup worked fine. I was overjoyed. I added a center speaker of the same brand and then purchased a Polk HTS12. Everything was fine until I purchased surround speakers and connected them. Something was wrong. The left and right surround speakers always played the same sound even in the test tones. Even the AV receiver setup white noise would come from both the speakers in surround right, nothing would come when set to surround left. I was stupid and I did not even know about this way of testing receivers at that time, so I trusted this guy. I called him back and he refused to take it back. I sensed something fishy and researched further. Turns out he had posted an ad on Olx mentioning this issue a week ago, but had deleted it and then posted a new ad without a mention of the issue. I confronted him about this and he simply refunded 2000 bucks via Gpay and refused to take his receiver back. A lesson learned the hard way.
This AV receiver worked fine for 4 months and then died. It was a pretty old model so repairing it seems out of question. Now I started looking for brand new receivers and zeroed in on either Denon's X1600H or 2700H. This has been even more frustrating for me. Dealers here in Bangalore do not want to sell just the receiver at recent prices mentioned in the posts here unless you purchase "speakers and receiver packages" from them. Even sellers who members here have mentioned have given great deals refused that they have ever given such low prices (e.g. Pratham Arora AV shack quoted a final price of 60K for 1600H two months ago). ProFx Bangalore does not even budge from 67,000 for 1600H which is ridiculous, to be honest. Indiamart throws some shady unknown dealers and I do not want to risk getting burned again with a lemon or gray market product.
Now I am sitting with a 5.1 speaker package but without an AV receiver to power them. I would be glad if members here can help me out with a legitimate dealer where you got a good deal. Thank you.
