Well I finally got the new receiver on Monday and I decided to do a complete clean re-installation, since I was back there. I've read some peoples comments regarding Yamaha's sound as being on the bright side

! Well I can safely attest to that myth, that its SQ is on par with with Denon and for me that is a positive thing. My only issue was getting use to the Yamaha's user menu interface( which imo was the difficult part), over that of my 3805, but once I was comfortable everything was rather easy(still like Denons better though)

. What really impressed me about this unit was its upscale ability to send out the incoming signals via hdmi, this was very useful and least we forget, finally seeing Dolby True HD or DTS HD-MA made all this worthwhile

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Regards, Bill
