I've only ever bought two AV receivers in my life :

A Yamaha A590 Dolby Pro Logic system in the 90's, and
An Onkyo 575 5.1 system in 2001

The feature I loved most on the Onkyo was each source was independant of each other - both volume wise and processing-wise. I can have CD 'direct' , DVD 'surround', Tuner 'stereo', and Video 'pro logic II'. Each source has it's own volume so you weren't blown away or adjusting volume for every source chosen! I know the feature wasn't on all te receivers at the time - but I was wondering if they all had this now?

It's such a small feature - but I love it!