So....I am confident that I personally can not distinguish the differences between "high-end" receivers when tested blind and equally configured.
That said, I don't much care to test them like that. While it may be meaningful for advertising and benchmarking, it's not how, IMO, people listen to them in their homes. (In other words "I'm a bunny rabbit with a pancake on its head"?)
What do people think about the sound of the receivers when they are *not* equally configured? Meaning:
YES equal volume levels.
But aside from that, let each company run with whatever effects it provides over the others.
And lets not limit this to receivers, since I'm operating under the assumptions I stated above about my hearing ability, lets open up the floor to pre-amps too (assume, if you will feel better about it, that they're connected to the same amp.)
