My $1200 Denon blew up after a year which is when I discovered that the large local chain I'd bought it from was not an authorized dealer and thus my 2 year warranty was worthless. Got a Sony DN1000 but the HDMI inputs didn't work and the Customer Service sucked.
This AVR sounds at least as good as the Denon using it bi-amped with my ancient Polk SRS3.1tl front speakers.
Features and drawbacks have been well documented by others. The manual is virtually worthless, but most of the functionality is intuitive, the rest just takes a little patience and luck.
I can't believe you can get this much AVR for so little money. For a hundred and fifty bucks more you can get the 1019 which has one more HDMI input and one more coax digital input but is otherwise IDENTICAL. I figure if I really need that fourth HDMI I'll buy a twenty dollar switch. They're just cables, they aren't magical.
One other note, it's a half inch narrower than all my other components (16.4 vs. 16.9), so Anal Retentives of the world beware.
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