I forgot to mention that going back to 1977, I've never had a Yamaha made component have any problem more severe than a loose knob on my old R-700 receiver. Over thirty years after I bought it, some guy in Australia bought it from me and paid $100 to ship it over there. It took literally over 2...
My experience with non-Yamaha receivers over the last 20 years or so has not been a good one. My first "high end" surround receiver was a Marantz SR8000? that cost a ton of money and died once under warranty, and then again right after it expired. Off to the boneyard it went, as it cost too much...