Hello Semi-on
My Onkyo does a wonderful job with both music and HT. The Sony system appears to have more 'slam' in HT and HT sounds great but is not as musical. I had a Technics 5x100 watts SADX940 which I picked up for a song to hold me over until I chose a tube amp. That Technics was unbelievably musical, maybe the most musical of all the HT receivers I've used including some which cost more than 5 times as much. That's why I recommended the Panasonic so highly. Just a thought.

Enjoy the Music. Trust your ears. Laugh at Folks Who Claim to Know it All.