Oh, I can promise you guys that before I bought the Yamaha CX-A5100 and MX-A5000, I was an absolute diehard Denon fanboy. I have owned SO MANY Denon AVR, AVP, Integrated Amps, CD Players and Universal Media players over the years (AVP-A1HDCI, AVR-5308CI, etc.).
The ONLY Yamaha’s I owned were the Stereo Mixers for Karaoke. And even then, for years I was looking to see if Denon made a Stereo Mixer like Yamaha so that I could switch from the Yamaha to Denon. But I never found any.
In fact, until I actually bought the CX-A5100, I was NOT even a dealer for Yamaha! I had no intentions of EVER buying a Yamaha. But after I bought the CX-A5100, I knew I had to become a dealer for Yamaha.