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Mike, welcome. There's no good reason to be concerned these days about the "sound quality" of receivers. The technology is at a point where even units with a modest cost have audibly flat response from 20-20KHz and inaudibly low noise and distortion within their designed power limits. So, they all amplify transparently and there's certainly no need to "audition" them. We of course read claims to the contrary, but these collapse when put to the(blind listening)test.

The Onkyo 805 which should be out in a week or two certainly does have most of the latest features and should be plenty for your speakers in your size room. If those are the features that you want, go with it.



If this is absolutely true, then why are there so many high end companies still in business?

I just don't understand how you can be so closed minded over this topic.

Mark Levinson, Lexicon, Adcom, McIntosh, Anthem, Parasound..... On and on without even mentioning all the units in excess of 50K.