One thing that Kevin Brown (one of the regulars around here) has often pointed out when looking at these two is the difference in bass management on the 5.1 analog input. Both pre/pros will exhibit a "double-bass" behavior with 5.1 analog input -- a low-pass crossover transfers a copy of everything below 80Hz from the five full-range channels to the LFE channel while leaving the data in place on the full-range channels. With the 950, this condition can be avoided by enabling the analog bass management on the 5.1 input (which adds a high-pass crossover to the full-range channels, eliminating the material under 80Hz from those channels). The Rotel reportedly has no way to prevent this double-bass condition.

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