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Wil, I'm hardly the receiver expert as evidenced by the mass of "tell me what to buy dammit!!" posts I've made, haha, but as long as you're not in a huge room and aren't hindered by any lack of features on the 494 then it really comes down to whether it sounds good to you or not.

Neither the 494 nor the 595 convert the composite to S-Video. It kind of sucks and is sort of a problem for me since my Toshiba only has composite and S-Video on the Video 1 input and will only accept either one or the other (my Video 2 is reserved for component input). Then again, I don't...

Hmm, that's kind of odd. Well, I won't have mine until the end of the week, but I'll probably have it hooked up without a subwoofer the first day or so until I get a chance to go to Best Buy so I could let you know what it sounds like with the JBL N24's on large (I don't know how comparable...

Yeah, thanks partly to Jeremy I also went ahead and ordered my 595 from J&R this weekend. I paid $369 for it though, just asked for that price instead of $359 -- stupid me!! But he also gave me a price break on the speaker stands I ordered at the same time so it all evens out (it's only $10...

Ken, So you're using your DVD player as your CD player too, and just assigning your DVD source and CD source to both be OPT1? I think the note refers to physically attaching more than one source cable to the digital input. I don't think you can do that with optical, but maybe they just don't...

Great to hear!! Here's hoping the 494 I buy in a few days does as well as the 595 (unless I decide 20 extra watts is worth $100 more for a 15'- 11' room!)