Is on it's way. Wandered into best buy while SWMBO went into big lots
Looked at the rack of all these really good looking receivers and started to have a panic attack. Called up my fav forum that I haven't visited in way too long, and saw the yamaha 2020 review, and asked to listen to it. Magnolia mgr was helping me and asked if I done any research on the Pioneers... not yet, I wasn't even there to buy anything!
He set me up to listen to the SC-61 and 2020 , we got the volumes set to the same value. My 1/2 deaf ears thought the tone on the 2020 was a touch warmer, but he correctly pointed out the 61 had better sound separation. Their 65 wasn't hooked up, but I was heading towards the 61... right up until he pointed out they would meet any legitimate internet source, including amazon. Holy crap, that's like 30% off! They were out of stock, it will be delivered to the store Tuesday, but it will be Thursday before I can pick it up.
Really excited to finally join the modern world, what's this HDMI thingy
? No longer need to worry about buying new devices with optical and HDMI outputs, in fact struggling right now because I have to swap cables between devices. Probably most excited about letting the system tune itself, I have an extremely difficult room!