No less than Ken Pohlman has given a positive review to this new HT receiver.....it uses digital amps, the benefit of that is cleaner sound, far less current demand, runs cooler, the weight of these things is like, 9 pounds!.....and they are much, much more compact looking than the typical huge HT receiver...they might be mistaken for a HTIB in looks ...I love the scaled down look...question is , does anyone have one of these?....the 1 negative I see seems to be no analog outs...I seem to have read this thing doesn't even use a DAC, your speakers are the DACS!, so to speak....