I've ever only owned 1 AVR... and that only cost me (a deeply discounted) ~$350 back near the end of the HD format war when I finally needed to adopt HDMI... and I actually literally only ever used that Yamaha AVR as a prepro -- the amp section has never even been tested at all.
The B&K...
Really? Certainly did not expect that. Very disappointing if true NVM the bugs that seem to inflict most every new prepro release nowadays though I understand better was expected from a select few like Anthem.
Guess I should be that much more glad I have no need for HDMI 2.1 and simply went...
LOL, Sam. There are always "lotta excuses being made for leading" whatever firms. Just as long as they don't matter to you, then they're only other people whining over nothing, LOL... ;) :D
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Don't really know why some new AVRs (NVM prepros) don't more fully support HDMI 2.1, but usually, there are simply plenty of tradeoffs to be made w/ each new piece of AV gear. And presumably, that might just be one of them right now.
Given how there are often IMHO more pressing issues to...
Like I'd been saying, people can always try the used market for an Anthem AVM-60 at roughly 1/2 the price of a new AVM-70 and not miss much, if anything at all, IMHO... ;)
From what's been mentioned here, some might possibly miss the duo/stereo/separately configurable sub outputs of the AVM-70...