One should consider an AVR with an analog input/passthrough that avoids any redigitizin of the signals.
How are AVRs for 2-channel music these days?
Thinking about using an AVR in my modestly-priced system for the use of surround in the future. It will be mostly for 2-channel music now. Just wondering how they stack up against a good integrated these days, are they sonically transparent? Let's say an AVR vs integrated in the $1k-1500 range, say something like a Pioneer Elite.