I was surprised at how different the listening modes on my Onkyo 3007 are. Some modes sound great and some modes sound terrible with the exact same source material, so you are at the mercy of how the demo units are set up in store. It makes hard to say one AVR would sound better than the other since most of them are very adjustable. I would definitely recommend one with some type of automatic calibration process as described above as well.


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