The 53Tx is an excellent receiver. MCACC is also a feature that can really dial in your HT environment. It is also 7.1 @ 100w. I sold my old flagship Rotel RSX-1065 receiver for this receiver because 53TX has features that surpass the Rotel receiver. It has an excellent auto calibrating feature to tonally matches all the speakers. It also has better digital 24/192 DACs than my Rotel. It sounds better in 2 channel DIRECT MODE. It upsamples my analog/digital sources to 24/96. It has DTS 24/96.

Saturn
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