This receiver is full digital class-d, aka power DAC implementation based on the original Toccata technology bought by TI. The gear got quite an unfavourable review here on ASR.
It used to have very warm reception by the audio community back then (mentioned 70+ pages user threads).
Don’t you think the measurements performed here are too loosely correlated to the collective although subjective user impressions ? (which still has a lot of value & power as e.g. James Surowiecki showed in his nice book …
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