Hi L.J.; I think you made a great choice. I read the review on C-NET. Guttenburg and Falcone are excellent and experienced audio people. I listened to Denon's in surround sound last December in some stores and found their performance to be superb. It might have to do with that Sharc 32 bit processor that they deploy in their receivers. The good thing that I have noticed with Blue Ray is that many discs come with the uncompressed PCM channels. I personally am not sure how this audio is outputted to a receiver; meaning whether it can travel through the standard toslink/coaxial cables we generally use for listening to multi-channel sound from regular dvd players, or whether that audio can only be reproduce from an hdmi cable from the BD player to the receiver. The price is great I believe for this well rated unit. Good luck. Let us know how it works and sounds once you have analyzed its performance.