I recently had the same problem. I prefer the sound of the Yamaha for music, but since my use is more movies/TV than music I went with the 1014 and saved a couple hundred dollars.
I found this review of the VSX-2014 (which appears to be a European(?) model similar to the 1014) and the RX-V1500. It's a PDF file and took a long time to load on my system.
http://www.yamaha.ca/av/PDFs/Reviews...Fi_RXV1500.pdf