Gee thanks bud,
but that was the whole point I tried to make. Isn't speaker quality and room treatment immensely more important that a few SINAD points. And when we worry about a AVR's weakness in amp power, again the speaker and it's sensitivity play the biggest roll in it's importance.
I don't believe we're going far OT at all, the thread is based on AVR's "what am I missing". My post above basicly states "almost nothing". How audible the AVR's failing have been in measurements is subtle in the extreme and highly dependent on speaker quality and design.
Stereo or Multich, They both have the exact same goals, to reproduce the source as accurately as possible.