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i'm not extremely smart, but i did stay at a holiday inn express last night...

an "argument"? no. a "discussion"? sure.
having heard neither, but having owned a few avrs/pre-pros (including a sc-05 and a sc-09) over the years, i do have an opinion...

my opinion (which isn't a secret
), is that all avr's that aren't junk (and that starts a very low price these days) run flat and within spec, will be essentially indistinguishable in a controlled test... it is primarily 2 things that differentiate avrs, that being features (channels, robust amplification, "colored" dac settings
, etc.) and dsp (primarily room correction)...i grant that i may not hear as well as someone else does...
someone like filmmixer, for example, who has the bona fides (purty little statue) no doubt hears better than i... that, combined with an extensive posting history, has earned him the respect of having well-reasoned opinions considered, even though i may not "hear" what he does, and may not necessarily agree with him in the end... his thoughts can be read on this thread (and others) in several places...
not that you need to have an extensive posting history to have a valid opinion... but you do at least have to be well-reasoned... so far, your posts haven't really told us much other than you love the ice amp... you've been exhorting, not comparing...
look, i wasn't happy about it either, ice amps are part of the sc mystique... but you don't "hear" mystique...
for all intents and purposes, the new amplification section produces what the old one did... bench tests have shown that... enough "people i trust" own the units and have comments in line with the tests...
the dsp is the same... the feature set is essentially the same... watts are watts... etc.
given the above 3 paragraphs (and my "opinion" stated earlier), your posts are claiming what is referred to as "extraordinary results"... and "extraordinary results" require "extraordinary proof"... of which, you have provided none... all you've done is confirm your huge expectation bias for us...
clear now?































