John, how do you know that? How can you say, with such authoritative confidence, that the front end of a given receiver will sound as good as the front end of a dedicated stand-alone separate processor?
I haven't listened to any NADs for many years, so I can't comment as to whether or not the processing sections of their receivers are as good as those in their separates, but I can tell you that as to Onkyo, the Integra DTC 9.4 processor is better than the front end of the Onkyo 797, and that the TA E9000ES processor is better than the processor in the STRDB 1070's front end.
