First, most receiver here combined with the AV amplifier. If you only listen to music, don't buy that kind of things. $500 AV receiver is no better than $200 pure amplifier.
Second, spend half of your money on your speakers. Buy a pair of bookshelf speakers if your room is not large enough. With $1000 you can buy quite nice speakers. DON'T buy SONY,YAMAHA,KENWOOD,they are not professional in speakers. I pefer some Europe brands, you can check it on the website.
If you want buy a CD player. I recomand you "NAD", simple design, not too expansive and good perfermance.
Than buy a pure A Amplifier. Don't need much power output. 50W X50W is enough.
The sound qulitiy of radio is not good enough. So you can not here much difference when you play radio on your $500 system and $2000 system.
Second, spend half of your money on your speakers. Buy a pair of bookshelf speakers if your room is not large enough. With $1000 you can buy quite nice speakers. DON'T buy SONY,YAMAHA,KENWOOD,they are not professional in speakers. I pefer some Europe brands, you can check it on the website.
If you want buy a CD player. I recomand you "NAD", simple design, not too expansive and good perfermance.
Than buy a pure A Amplifier. Don't need much power output. 50W X50W is enough.
The sound qulitiy of radio is not good enough. So you can not here much difference when you play radio on your $500 system and $2000 system.