US manufacturers still don't have access to chips that decode Dolby TrueHD and DTS HD audio. This is by far one of the best AVR's on the market. $4000 is not bad at all for this receiver. Funny that Glenn even tries comparing this to Denon or Yamaha.
Why not compare it to Denon and Yamaha? Why not compare it to Sony for that matter. Sunfire is supposed to be a top quality brand. They charge a high premium for their products. In order to justify that premium, they should be able to wipe the floor with the likes of Denon, Yamaha, and Sony. But they can't. They only thing marginally interesting about this unit is the balanced XLR outputs.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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What, no Dolby True HD or other current formats on Blue-ray for $4,000
US manufacturers still don't have access to chips that decode Dolby TrueHD and DTS HD audio. This is by far one of the best AVR's on the market. $4000 is not bad at all for this receiver. Funny that Glenn even tries comparing this to Denon or Yamaha.
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Why not compare it to Denon and Yamaha? Why not compare it to Sony for that matter. Sunfire is supposed to be a top quality brand. They charge a high premium for their products. In order to justify that premium, they should be able to wipe the floor with the likes of Denon, Yamaha, and Sony. But they can't. They only thing marginally interesting about this unit is the balanced XLR outputs.