Yamaha amps tend to have a warmer sound than amps in similar price ranges, at least their mid to upper line does. depends on your listening tastes though, as does everything, i persoanly find them more pleasent to listen to than many of their peers

If music is your goal you could do a lot worse, (and not much better, for the money), than the Yamaha.

Rock789, i didnt get a chance to call Denon today, we had some bad information on a job and it knida left us in the lurch of having more to do than we really had time for, got it all done, but without a moment to spare. I'll try to call them tomorrow.