What do you mean 'what the heck is happenning'? My advice is based upon the principle of providing people with the best possible performance for the budget allocated. $700 here at least would buy something like what I think in the USA was called the AVR-5803 in the second hand market. As an...
Do not be deceived by weight. Light though the Pioneer models unquestionably are, there are two other things to consider. The first is that the 'old' generation of Pioneers - pre-HDMI - had a lot of superfluous physical materials (oversized heat syncs, ferrous materials in the feet, 3D...