I had my AV-10 for many moons, 20 or so. It's most important characteristics are that in never fails, just keeps going cool as a cat, and syncs really nicely. No confusion or restarts, but just plain performance. In my open rack that is not particularly big on clearance, it stays barely warm to touch. It locks on many signals instantaneously without any drop outs, but sometimes it does need 3 or so seconds to lock on. In my experience, that has more to do with title that anything else as happens both way on variety of streaming services.
Features it has are really amazing starting from independent output to 19 channels (4 out of which are subs), advanced D&M bass management (LFE+main, LFE distribution - directional LFE is useful addition to prove that concept is not fit for most rooms), and support of both Audyssey and Dirac room correction systems.
AV-10 and AV-20 are reference level processors and not much more to be added. Storm has an edge in higher channel count and apparently more robust implementation of Dirac, and Trinnov is also a different high-end story with their unique solutions. But I don't mind not having those in my rack as AV-10 does absolutely everything that I need at this point. And then there is that $10K or so more that is required for the Storm or Trinnov club entry ticket. That might be worth to some, but less so to the others.
Features it has are really amazing starting from independent output to 19 channels (4 out of which are subs), advanced D&M bass management (LFE+main, LFE distribution - directional LFE is useful addition to prove that concept is not fit for most rooms), and support of both Audyssey and Dirac room correction systems.
AV-10 and AV-20 are reference level processors and not much more to be added. Storm has an edge in higher channel count and apparently more robust implementation of Dirac, and Trinnov is also a different high-end story with their unique solutions. But I don't mind not having those in my rack as AV-10 does absolutely everything that I need at this point. And then there is that $10K or so more that is required for the Storm or Trinnov club entry ticket. That might be worth to some, but less so to the others.
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