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My room is about 5000+cf and I'm using a Marantz 8300 THX Select receiver. It was fine when I was using 8 Ohm speakers, but I had to add external amplification when I moved to all 4 Ohm speakers. My receiver is rated at 120x6, and compared to the 1014 I tried, there's no way the 1014 would have...

That's what I'd suspect too. It just seems like you have to turn it up higher compared to the others because the operating point is that high for your setup (speakers, room). Your room is quite large and that receiver may be just a bit underpowered for that size of room, even with efficient...

This isn't unusual, and certainly not for the price range. In my smallish bedroom with just 2 speakers, I found that I needed to crank that guy to about -20 before I really got decent levels (MCACC off), and once it reached -12 it was starting to very audibly distort. IMO, the 1014 wasn't a bad...