[ColinM]

Denon and Yamaha are both excellent. I've been with Denon for 4 years now.

Sorry, Jack. I forgot to add, "...for most users."

Most people don't have listening rooms or even budgets that justify a spearate pre-amp, left and right mono block amp, separate D/A converter, compact disc transit, blah, blah, blah...

Quality and multi use receivers are really the way to go for most of us. By typping that he didn't know the difference between A/V and 2 channel units, I would guess he would not be into Creek Audio, or Magnepan, or Rotel, or whatever.