I've been looking into buying another hometheater receiver and moving my existing Yamaha dsp-a3090 into another room. The last time I spent significantly on audio product was in '97. At the time flagship receivers from the majors were around 2000-2500 dollars. Now they seem to be 4000-5000. Is going from 5.1 to 6.1/7.1 worth all this cash.? What the heck are we getting for our hard earned buck? Surely it's not inflation driving this. The only other differences I can see are modestly more powerful amps and some have microphones to help the setup process. Geez. It used to be that Yamaha flagship receivers were priced significantly lower thatn product from Denon and Onkyo for example. The only reason I could see for this at the time were licensing fees for thx. Am I right? The new yamaha flagship has an msrp of 4400. It now has THX and Farjouda technology. Could it be licensing fees driving these insane prices? And about the legacy classic... I purchased a pair new in '97 for 2400/pr. They're now 3195 - an increase of about 33%. Meanwhile the Focus and Sig III are priced the same as they were 7 years ago. What gives? The Focus has been significantly re-designed since '97. Not sure about the Sig. The Classic is exactly the same product it was 7 years ago as far as I can tell. Thanks.