Oops, mine is the older Onkyo model 575, bought about a year and a half ago, and the second Onkyo I have owned. I WILL say that the 1050 blows the 575 away in A/B comparisons, especially in regards musical articulation, transparency, and power. Onkyo's ARE about the best one can expect from Circuit City, but I wouldn't go back to Onkyo from the 1050 until I got to their models that run over $1,000 and even then I think the Onk's "color" the sound a bit and muddle frequencies together in the extreme low and high ranges of frequencies. Some refer to this as the "Onkyo sound". I want my music as pure as possible in the price range.

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