Mad_Chesser. you are likely very right that the older stuff did more right than an awful lot of the newer stuff. As I eluded to in a previous post, the sound I got from my old Nakamichi AV1 seemed to blow away anything that I had bought post (except for my Anthem).

I think that the trend with modern mainstream receivers and pre's is to put far too much post-processing inside the unit that has a detrimental effect to the sound when you have some great speakers that are very revealing like the Axioms


Anthem: AVM60, Fosi DAC-Q5
Axiom: ADA1500, LFR1100 Actiive, QS8, EP500, M3, M3comp, M5