All of this is fascinating! However, it seems as though the audio powers are in the midst of yet ANOTHER major set-up overhaul. Which makes it hard to go out and commit a major investment in a reciever. That happened to me when I bought my Denon 4808... it seemed like it had all the bells and whistles I could ever need for the next 15 to 20 years. However, just a few years after I bought it HDMI was introduced, and it quickly became obsolete there after.
So now I'm in the market for a reciever that will bring me up to date, but now I'm nervous that as soon as I buy one, the powers that be are going to completely revolutionize speaker placement, as well as the software to run them. Making it hard to know if I should still hold off until all of this is settled, or go ahead and make the plunge now and 'damn the torpedos'!!! After all, they'll never have EVERYTHING settled and permanent. This is just the way things are in hi-fi audio.
