Yep, just about as useful as this sort of grouping:

Two recent vintage fun to drive imported coupes

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Originally Posted By: Ritz2
Originally Posted By: skiman


There may be a lot of budget priced receivers currently on the market, but very few processors at the 978's price (and none with it's feature set, i.e. XT32).


I posted a list not long ago of 3 different Onkyo AVR's with Audyssey XT32 ranging in price from $999 to $1350. And they all were much more full featured than the specs quoted for the 978. It's not a big stretch of the imagination to think that we'll be seeing XT32 in more sub $1000 AVRs soon. And as long as those AVR's have pre-outs....they're effectively processors.

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