Gene had a talk with them yesterday. Around 27 minutes is when they start talking about the disconnect.
There is another thread that is saying you can disconnect just the L and R.
Not sure how true it is yet
They should just make a cheaper pure "pre" AVR with so many cheap powerful multi-channel power amps available.
They should just make a cheaper pure "pre" AVR...Ditch the internal power amps all together in a sub $1000 pre unit....
Actually if you don't have many customers, the small numbers greatly increase the production cost and that increases the price, plus more specialty items generally are sold for more profit margin, that's just business. Oh, and amortizing the design/testing engineering and tooling into the smaller quantity also drives up the price.It doesn't exist because there's no market for it...you can only justify manufacturing them in small numbers if you jack up the price.
New Convenient Audyssey Feature
The AVR-S960H now supports Dual Audyssey Preset function which allows users to store and instantly switch between two Audyssey configurations. For example, users can store both the Audyssey calibration result straight from the receiver and a customized MultEQ curve or frequency range made through the Audyssey MultEQ editor app on the receiver simultaneously, allowing users to easily compare differences and select their preference. Listeners can also perform Audyssey measurements for two different speaker settings, including 2.0 for music listening and 5.1.4 for movie surround.
A bit off topic but thought I'd add this to the thread anyway. The new additions to the lower-end Denon AVR line -- the "S" series -- have just been announced. Or at least the S960 has.
Not much to write home about, some HDMI 2.1 / 8k stuff, etc. But this did catch my eye: