RL, anyone who read the post knows what's wrong with Marantz. The guy wants something better, he tried two other products and knows, to his ears there is something better. He wants to know what others think is better.

Topspeed and the others are correct and have accurately pegged Mrtycraft. I don't know what his purpose here is but it's not to help or show much knowledge in audio. I think Mtrycraft needs a life. Is goal seems to be how many posts he can do and how much agitation he can cause. He is like the guy in the Monty Python skit, I came in here for an argument, no you didn't, yes I did. Your time is up. No it's not. etc.
I have to say though, I was patting him on the back when he gave Terrence a taste of his own medicine.

When you read the post "what audio equipment do you own?" you will notice the majority of responses are people who just own receivers. This tells me that not too many here really have experience or understand higher end equipment. I think that's why so many want to try to convince everyone that a receiver is as good as anything out there. On the other hand there are many here who are knowledgeable and can contribute and help. As you say though, one will have to read both sides and do some listening for themselves.