I'm with tbng on this one. For my situation (and apparently for his), he's dead-on with his list.

What I really care about is how it sounds. If it sounds better than my 950, at that price, I will be all over it.

One feature I do really like is the sub offset for two channel sources. I don't know why, as I've calibrated my speaker levels, but I always have to turn down the sub for two channel CD listening vs DD & DTS with movies.

Cary