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You've probably mentioned elsewhere, but remind me. What don't you like about the 1120? If there are basic functions they haven't mastered, I'll have to weigh that.

I've had an MRX720 for about 3/4 years.
Personally I still think it's the cats meow. Does everything I need. There's no Bluetooth is about the only thing lacking from most other AVRs. And DTS Playfi is so so
The ARC has recently been up dated we were getting most speaker set to their maxes from it. Mind you most on HTF I think, didn't have any other issues with it and it still worked great for them and I.

It runs hot and when the cooling fans run, they are noisy as hell. I had to buy an external fan for it. The GUI is clunky. Not as intuitive as a Denon - believe it or not..... It's missing some of the features that are pretty common on the better Denons. Lip sinc for example. Lack of discrete IR commands is kinda irritating. There's a few others, but mostily trivial.

I can comment on the NAD line being similar in clunky gui. Takes a knack and notes as you go along to keep it all straight. Would be nice if there was a advanced setup routine based in a browser or similar like the yamaha line.

No onscreen overlay either. Makes adjusting lipsync a headache as the hdmi handshake needs to happen to enter and exit the menu each time. Cumbersome for sure.

Just an FYI: Some interesting stuff on prepocessors from when as I was looking last year

First, and I'm not 100% sure about this, I kind of remember reading that a bunch of the 16 channel prepros cheated a bit on the wide channels for ATMOS. Instead of placing object using the ATMOS algorithm they derived it by matrixing the fronts and sides together. Might have been resolved by now as it had to do with something Dolby needed to support.

The 2nd thing you might what to look at is some processors include the subs out in the 16 channel count (like the RMC-1). Some like the prepros like AV8805 claim 13 channels + 2 subs so you could say it's a 15 channel processor.

Also the 8805 does a trick to support all channels on Aura 3d ... it provides 2 extra output which can drive two more speakers. When Aura 3d is in use it steals two channels and sends the VOG and center height info to the extra channels.

Well I need to wait an hour or so before posting something ...
Editing it in the moment I end up reading what I want it to say and not what's really written.
At least you can figure it out.

I think we all know what you mean rlev... especially mojo!

Makes sense everything as I write it I say as it's written Rebulx.

Are funny you mojo.

I end up using the edit button a lot.

Edit: See. Told ya.

LOL! My people and I laugh a lot. We find humor in everything. I used to be very critical but now I just laugh.