You have lesser clues? I don't know what your problem is, but you're kinda "out there"
"lesser clues"?
Forget it.... you guys remind me of the people at reddit/audiophile who think themselves as audiophiles and then go buy a 50 year old Realistic 8 track unit and are proud of how it sounds.
You're practicing an ad hominem attack.... you made some claims, when I ask you to provide proof, you don't, instead you double down on your ad hominem attacks.
I want an audio decoder devoid of video processing. It's easy enough to make one, but it seems like the product doesn't exist in the consumer products world.... perhaps it does in the professional world... so I guess I will look there.
I do not want to buy an AVR just to throw money away on 90% of what's in the box.... just to get some cheapy audio electronics to do the decoding...
Simple as that.
And yes, I'm "out there"... I'm an audiophile, simple as that. Neither my den or living room have coffee tables because they will interfere with the imaging, there. Deal with it. Enjoy you 1000 watt AVR, while I fix my 35 wpc amp.