I humbly bow to Norimasa Kitagawa and all the other great TX-NR818 engineers who are responsible for the electronics in my audio path. Without their ingenuity, my room-speaker-source system would still sound like total dog shit.
This is the last great receiver Onkyo built and the team that designed it, lived and breathed electronics and had a deep passion for audio. They worked around the clock to deliver functionality and performance you can't find in a receiver 3x the price. And the good folks at Visions let 7 of them go to me and my friends for what amounted to a song and a dance. I'll forever be in the debt of all those who had anything to do with this purchase and when I can no longer source components to repair it if it ever breaks down, I will keep it and take it to the crematorium where it and I can fuse for eternity.
I'm in a 4,200 ft^3 room, 14' away from my M80s and this integrated receiver ROCKS!
BTW, I see the same passion at Axiom. Passion matters. The 160 and 800 just might be coming on that joyride to eternity.
