![]() ![]() Most of my friends and acquaintances don't even have sound bars, much less discrete external speakers and subwoofers for their TV's. Unfortunately, for many retired expats like me living in a small rental house or apartment on an even more limited pension then mine, anything more than a Smart TV with an Amazon Firestick is out of reach. However, based on this ASR review and thread, I would not hesitate to recommend it highly for non-audiophile/videophile friends looking for a modern, good-performing "all-in-one" AVR and could afford it. The Denon looks good, but would be waaaay overkill for me. I think this is as close to a competent design with a minimalist approach that one can find in the AVP arena. I always seem to be a bit off the mainstream audio consumer track, but yet again in a long lifetime in the audio hobby, managed to assemble a system that suits me perfectly considering my room, budget and fairly wide-ranging taste in music. ![]() ![]() I get up-mixed center channel sound that I can defeat when it affects really good stereo recordings by simply turning off my center channel amplifier with its front switch. It wasn't festooned with "HiRes Audio" and other stickers when I got it, which is also good, because I like the "as simple as possible, but no simpler" approach. It works perfectly for me, which is good, because it cost a lot to ship it here to the mountains of Western Panama from the UK via Miami, USA, and would not be easy to get service or resell it. It is light on features - which I wanted, but it has all the basics - including center channel sound, basic room correction DSP, and XLR output. I paid £699/$862 for an IOTAVX 7.1 4K AVP (pic below). ![]()
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