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Back in the day, I had subscriptions to Sound & Vision, Home Theater Mag, Stereophile etc. I'm familiar w/ the methods used to analytically measure/quantify specs and throw "real world" scenarios at a receiver. Basic concepts like quality toroidal transformers, individual amp modules w/ dedicated power supplies, shielding, thicker gauge cases etc. do make a difference to an extent. It's what the Pioneer Elite, Sony ES and higher Denon/Marantz models employed, for their $1k+ models.

As w/ any subjective opinions, such as wine or other things, if it's good to you, that's all that matters. As some have noted, wattage/power is relevant as far sound pressure levels relating to the efficiency of your speakers and the size of your room. If you're in an apartment/condo, no sense in trying to create theater-level sound levels. Good enough is good enough.

My rants are simply an effort to point out to anyone interested, the value proposition of recent models and where they focus, and whether the value is there for some but not for others. If it's a fit, buy it.

Yes people have been trying to universally define what we hear since the dawn of time and it will continue.

All that reading/talk is ONE factor of a vast many when it comes to what we hear,you pointed a few other/more important ones.
Now if you could actually pick out everything you just read/talked about by merely listening, I would agree it would be more "relevant".

This is extremely subjective, take for instance your "create theater-level sound levels" comment, what does that mean!?

For me I would tell you a optimal "Atmos" setup in home easily out performs any movie theater.

My point/opinion you upgrade a receiver because of features not to improve the sound.

Does one make a "sound" difference in the end, yes but there are far many of factors ahead of it.

You will always have people pointing to some spec or measurement and proclaim the product is good or bad as a universal fact.

I do agree if it fits and you believe it's worth it by all means buy it.

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