I got a pre-Dennon demo of Incog's system a couple weeks back. I thought the upper mid and highs were very suppressed and lacked clarity, air, and detail. I realized since he has fine equipment, that he must have preferred this sound and tuned his system to sound this way. I refrained from commenting on this aspect at the time, because I felt grateful for the Rocket demo, I hardly knew him, and if he prefers this sound, why rain on his parade. He would likely say my system sounds very bright in comparison, but I think it to be much more revealing and accurate to the recordings intent. Having said that, my system is lacking in other respects, like I notice compression at around 90db, and my smallish NHT VT1 speakers have to be driven harder to fill the much larger room, than what I purchased them for 12yrs ago. I'm currently demo-ing all the speakers I can, for choosing good replacements. I suspect I would like the sound out of his new Dennon much better than he does. I have read some reviews on DVE versus Avia, and some who have both say DVE is good for video, but they prefer Avia for sound. They said there are some problems with the subwoofer test tones on DVE. I will offer to loan him my Avia to try out and see if he likes it better! I think some peoples perception and preference for warm, is much different than others.

Just another opinion!