You're going the wrong way. Do yourself a favor. Disregard all the advice on what to get. Go and listen. Hook one of these things up and listen to it- at home and with your gear! Do this and I promise you will understand why and thank me. Because no surround made at any price is as good as what you already have. The Home Theater market takes the 2 good channels of stereo and replaces it with five crap channels of dreck. If you compare you will see, its not even close.
Sorry, but its all lies. Wasted a whole year of my life trying to find a good processor. They do not exist. They get away with this because a) people are distracted by the video and b) compare against other surround gear. But since all surround gear is crap and they never compare against stereo then they never even have the chance to understand its all crap. Their crap HT sounds pretty good compared to all the other crap HT and besides oh look 4k.
But hey, don't take my word for it. Go and listen. You will see.
Sorry, but its all lies. Wasted a whole year of my life trying to find a good processor. They do not exist. They get away with this because a) people are distracted by the video and b) compare against other surround gear. But since all surround gear is crap and they never compare against stereo then they never even have the chance to understand its all crap. Their crap HT sounds pretty good compared to all the other crap HT and besides oh look 4k.
But hey, don't take my word for it. Go and listen. You will see.