HK been passed by the Denon's and Yamaha's? I don't understand. They are all decent manufacturers. Each company has somewhat different feature sets they market to set themselves apart (e.g. Yamaha has tons of custom surround programs for those that like to experiment with that and HK has the most versatile bass management system and room EQ).

There are lots of folks on this board that have HK's and are quite happy with them.

Paul