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I recently bought a Sunfire TGIII ($3500 list) to replace my 3 year old Rotel 985 (list $2000). Rather than have one 5.1 analog input, the Sunfire can turn any analog input into direct analog. Now I have a solution if I decide to add a DVD-A player. Would also work well with the 777-XA's stereo and 5.1 outputs.
Unfortunately there's only one multichannel input. It's 7.1 if I remember correctly. Right now its unused, since I have a Stereo Sony 9000ES.The Sunfire has a very good bass mgt system, but only works with digital processing.
The Sunfire is vastly superior to the Rotel in regards to playing music through the digital processing.
Bass is vastly superior to the Rotel--deeper and more defined.
Comparing analog bypass, the Rotel and Sunfire mid-range and trebble are close, but the Sunfire is better.
The phono prepreamp in the Sunfire is superior to my 20 year old phono preamp that I've been using. Listened to 7-8 records since Saturday. I still prefer SACD to vinyl, but my vinyl never sounded better.
My SACDs sound better than ever.
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It's nice to see that pre/pro makers are slowly adding the features that consumers want. It always amazes me that pre/pros costing $1000 to $4000 lack some of the basic convenience features I have on my pitiful Pioneer Elite VSX-24TX receiver. Of course, it doesn't sound like those pre/pros, but, for two examples, it also can do any analog input in "direct" mode, and the subwoofer output still functions in direct mode if the mains are set to small. Simple, basic features that I bet everyone would like, but you'd be surprised how many pre/pros don't have.
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