This has probably been talked and debated to death already but I'm thinking. I run all my video direct between the output unit and TV and at this point don't see the need or advantage of using the AV receiver (could be wrong). It seems that as the price increases in receivers, most of the upgrade is in the video realm. The wattage goes up but there are alot of additional video bells and whistles. I don't care about those. Where can I spend the extra money and just get better audio? Is separates the answer or are there units (Denon, HK, Yamaha, etc) that just upgrade the audio and not so much the video? Does all my rambling make sense??