I've heard all about the flexibility and expandibility however, NO ONE has stated factually that in a side to side comparison, the 950/7100 sounds superior to the 1050.
I find this statement a bit puzzling. Rather than re-state my previous side-by-side comparison experience, I'll offer some quotes (all taken from earlier in this thread):
I would agree with Kevin on that one -- I recall a sonic improvement between the 1050 and the 950/750. Mrs. gonk agrees, too.
My initial post regarding your question, stating that I and my wife both found a sonic improvement (even though she could have cared less which box we used).
To clarify my previous (and brief) reply, when I replaced a 1050 with a 950, I was already using the 1050 purely as a pre/pro -- the 750 and Parasound HCA-800II amps that I am using with the 950 were already in the system. The improvements I heard were only related to the pre-amp and processing roles. Going from a standalone 1050 to a 950 and amp (be it the 7100 or the 770 or a stack of 200's) would offer the additional benefit of separate amplification.
A clarification of my post -- I noticed a sonic improvement between 1050 as pre/pro and 950 as pre/pro. The upgrade from 1050 to 1050/750 the previous year had already provided some improvement in sound, meaning the superior sound I noted in the 950 would likely be even
more pronounced for someone replacing a 1050 along with a 950/7100 or 950/770.
Obviously, different people will hear things differently, but I still feel that the upgrade from 1050 to 950 offered a definite sonic improvement.
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I guess what I'm saying is that I would not qualify the 1050 as sonically equal to the 950/7100. I still think that the 1050 sounds very good, but at the end of the day it is only a $500 receiver. The 950/7100 combo offers better sonic performance (emphasis added for this post, not in original post) as well as more power and more features.
I don't mean to seem as if I'm beating the issue to death here, so I will step away from the cut-and-paste, but there are some other posts in this thread that also speak toward the question. Bossobass, for example, went through a number of receivers -- receivers that are all similar in price and performance to the 1050, and in fact even including the 1050 -- before settling on the 950. TANGO replaced a receiver (a Sony, not the 1050) and found enough improvement to amaze his wife.
As for a 1050 vs. 950/7100 blind test? Not having actually tried it, none of us can speak with certainty to the outcome, but I would expect that most people would be able to hear the difference. I know I heard a difference between my 1050 and my 950, for what that's worth.
I hope this big, rambling mess of a reply helps...
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