Nakamichi TA-2A help

If you can swing $300-400, you can buy a refurbed onkyo at shoponkyo.com that will be good for movies and music. Since this is stereo only, while it was a very nice tuner/receiver in its day, I'd be more interested in saving up a little more money for something that will last you longer.

My 2 cents.

Marshall

Nakamichi used to make really good stuff, but I haven't heard anything as of late. Sadly I'm not up on pricing. Have you checked out Audiogon? They have a "blue book" (or used to) of gear that helps people set a fair market value on stuff they are selling/auctioning/buying.

But if multi-channel is anywhere in your future, you can get some really good entry level receivers for under $400.

Good luck.