Onkyo

It's now been over a month since Circuit City began its liquidation. We've covered the liquidation to death; you probably won't get any real deal at these stores unless you're both canny and lucky. They jack up prices to MSRP, then start shaving off the percents, all in the name of the liquidation. That isn't news.

Champagne dreams and caviar receivers . . . you know what I'm talking about. The new Onkyo TX-SA706X is a "champagne"-colored A/V receiver. They can call it what they want — I think it's a gilded gold receiver with plenty of processing power, if only for the Japanese market. The TX-SA706X is a 7.1 channel beauty that pumps out 200-watts per channel.