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What do you expect?

Posted by David Aiken on January 20, 2011 at 12:31:37:
"A good stereo amplifier for the same money will do much better than an AV receiver. "

A stereo amp has 2 channels of amplification and no provision for decoding bitstream digital signals, no DAC for converting the PCM signal obtained from the decoded bitstream to analog, no video processing facilities, no automated setup process, no room EQ, and it also doesn't have 5 or more channels of amplification.

Add all of the things that an AVR has and a stereo amplifier doesn't to a stereo amp and you're faced with 2 choices: keep the same price and reduce the quality of everything or keep the same quality and increase the price of the product. You have to do one or the other. You can't add all of those extra channels of sound, the additional processing functions, and deliver the same sound quality that your stereo amp has without either increasing the price if you're going to maintain sound quality or reducing sound quality if you're going to maintain the same price.

Simple fact of life.