Bear123
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How about this?:The crutch of the matter is, as I keep proving, there is no option on the “market” to allow using small speakers with a subwoofer other than the ubiquitous miniDSP (or a 5+ channel AVR) There seems to be a solution for a while but only in USA and even that no longer exists.
Anthem STR integrated amplifier
It's pricey, and lends some credibility to just using a Denon AVR instead, even if only for two channels. I suppose Denon could manufacture a 2 channel only device like this(with modern connectivity, Audyssey, SubEq HT, etc etc,) but the market for it would be so infinitesimally small that it probably wouldn't be lucrative, and the price wouldn't necessarily be low enough to justify vs their multi channel AVR's.
It seems as though maybe therein lies the problem. If Denon would produce such a device, it would not appeal at all to a huge percentage of the typical audiophile market, since it has eq, bass management, subwoofer outputs, etc. For those that it would appeal to, it seems like another big percentage of that group would simply just get an AVR in order to feed their center channel and surrounds speakers, or at least have the capability of adding them if they desired.