You can get a great receiver

[Aaron Ledger]

You can get a great receiver for less than $500 these days. Those speakers are fairly sensitive. I would feel confident in any mid-range receiver from a manufacturer such as Denon or Onkyo unless you’re setting them up in a concert hall 😉 I purchased a Denon 2112 about a year ago and am pleased with it. Some of the benefits you realize from a receiver like that are easy to setup Audyssey room correction and dynamic volume along with ability to decode and cleanly amplify compressed and HD audio sources that are bitstreamed in from the PC or aother devices.