Troll alert But in all honesty, the Denon receivers suck. My recommendation is Onkyo. They all have discrete output stages and will sound better. Plus, if you're building a home theater, you must have a THX receiver. It's amazing what the THX algorithms can do for movies. This is how 99.99% of all movies were mixed in a studio. It's a tremendous difference what the processor does to the soundtrack. If you want to hear how the movie was originally mixed, forget the Denon. This is just pure BS, so just stop spreading it as is stinks. Denon has a long history of producing solid preforming products and if you think THX processing makes that big of a difference then you've been drinking some serious marketing kool-aid. For full disclosure I do use THX Processing in my unit, but it is certainly not a requirement nor should it be top on someone's requirements when selecting a competent AV Receiver.