The Marantz was #2 on my list. Musically I rated it equal to the 3805 or maybe a *BIT* better. The HT portion of the Marantz was off in comparison to the Denon and the Yamaha. But the real killer for the M was the lack of a full digital transport system like DLINK or IEEE1394. Honestly, there is not 10% of difference between ANY of the systems I reviewed so it really comes down to feature set.

I always read that Denon is terrible about overrating their output power, but even driving 4(F)/6(C)/6(R) Ohm speakers I have not had the unit clip or go into thermal protection.

Think it ever will?