I would much rather have a better sounding receiver over a receiver with a couple of extra features. Many of the receiver features like up scaling can be done by the display device or the source. Or say something like HDMI switching which can be done with a cheap Monoprice switch. But a person will probably have to live with inferior sound for the life of the receiver, and the only way to fix that is to replace it.
“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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I would much rather have a better sounding receiver over a receiver with a couple of extra features. Many of the receiver features like up scaling can be done by the display device or the source. Or say something like HDMI switching which can be done with a cheap Monoprice switch. But a person will probably have to live with inferior sound for the life of the receiver, and the only way to fix that is to replace it.