Quote Originally Posted by RGA
I've owned several receivers over the last 12 years - I've heard the top models from Yamaha, Denon, Marantz, Pioneer Elite, Sony, NAD among others over the years as well.
Several? You've only mentioned two that you actually owned, a Pro Logic Pioneer Elite and your current entry level Marantz, which you earlier said that you primarily use as a headphone amp. I guess your usage of "several" has the same validity as your assessment of "sucking donkey balls"? Given that none of us (at least that I'm aware of) have an obsession with donkeys, their balls, and/or sucking things that approximate them, I guess you're making up a point of reference that nobody else can relate to, or wants to for that matter.

Quote Originally Posted by RGA
I currently own a Donkey ball sucking receiver in the Marantz 4300. Which I recently bought even with my Donkey Ball sucking sentiment towards receivers. Receivers are quite handy little boxes I have found and I greatly enjoyed watching the new Spidey Flick with the big booms and cool little train screeches and the neato sound effects Doc Ock crushing everything as he goes by. Quite a fun and might I say relatively inespensive receiver - musically? Sucks Donkey Balls - but having heard a lot better this is very easy to notice - not having heard better - well I might foolishly think that my Marantz was remotely competant for music replay - or the top Yammaha or Denon or Marantz - which are a "little" better musically - though a lot better moviely.
Oh yeah, you've heard better, therefore everything else is a donkey ball sucker. Interesting that you enjoyed watching the Spidey flick through your receiver, given that you don't even have the thing set up for multichannel or to accommodate the LFE channel for that matter (assuming that you use an analog audio connection between the DVD player and the receiver). Indeed, I guess with how you have your receiver set up, you "might foolishly think" that it was "remotely competant [sp] for" movie playback! Playing a 5.1 soundtrack through a two-channel mixdown at the source? No LFE accommodation? You haven't even optimized your multichannel playback, yet you enjoy it. Yet again, by castigating an entire class of product, you accuse others of having low standards because they enjoy playing music through their receivers?