Also keep in mind that I am trying to reproduce music at high definition.
For movies you can spend 1/4th of what I did and get virtually the same impact.
The higher priced Denons (and certainly the Adcoms and other fine separates that A Navy Vet mentioned) have massive Torodial (sp?) power supplies, large capacitors, expensive D/A converters etc. that do very little in distinguishing between a Glock and a Colt, but will show the difference between a Steinway and a Bosendorfer.
Whats the story with dolby vs. thx standards?
I went to Fry's. The audio guy said there were no 5.1 surround features for Windows Media Center. I went to the other side of the store and saw the 5.1 Yamaha system and a Creative THX system for sale.
How does an analog receiver distinguish the differences between 5.1 surround encoding vs. dolby surround?