Okay I really don't get what the BIG deal is with fancy audio equipments that cost hundreds of dollars and take so much space when their sound is not far from compact radios or bookshelf speakers anyways! I have an RCA 2044, and some songs being played with this system(
particularly music with high-pitched singers) sound better than when being played with a Yamaha v490(
hooked to Boston Acoustics speakers and Yamaha subwoofer)! But I'm not going to lie, when playing certain songs(by deeper/or whispery colder voice like Matt Nathanson) the Yamaha system sounds better than RCA! Now I don't know which one to keep!

But all I'm saying is for something that cost ALOT more *ahem* yamaha, the sound should be impeccable no matter what kind of music is being played!