Was my friend given misinformation.

facten I think he got dazzled by all the features and inputs. I'm just a friend he got advice from a trained Audio Expert.🙄

facten did you not notice the rolling eyes at the end of my message 🙄🙄He likes the setup. But the fact that the salesman said that integrateds were nothing but stripped down AVR's wasn't correct. I guess Nelson Pass has been cheating us all these years.😲

About a week ago I saw a Seinfeld Episode where George was going to buy a highly rated Volvo. The Car Salesman then mentioned that the car a Chrysler LeBaron was once owned by Jon Voight. George took the LeBaron. and Jon Voight ended up being John Voight a Dentist.😀

What I basically objected to was the way the salesman described the differences between a AVR and an Integrated amp. Putting down an Integrated amp as just a stripped down AVR was wrong. Let’s face it he’s going to point out all the features you get w/the AVR and for most consumers they’ll go for the feature packed item. Plain Integrated's are just not as sexy.

An update. He seems pretty happy w/the purchase. However he's a bit overwhelmed buy the manual, 312 pages. I'm going over to help him navigate the instructions. A big difference from my Lo-Tech Luxman Tube Preamp Instruction Manual which is only 20 pages long. KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid)😎