Thanks for your replies.

I get the impression that the average Japanese brand of processor/AVR has improved significantly in recent years with regards to the reproduction movie soundtracks.

In the era of Dolby Digital; there wasn’t any comparison between my 568.2MM and various Yamahas, Pioneers, Onkyo’s etc. that I listened to. With the advent of the lossless codecs; I think that gap has shrunk between M and the competition.

I have no doubt that with regard to two channel music reproduction; M processors still (and probably always will) have the upper hand.

It would be wonderful if M releases a product that supports the new object based codecs, but I guess with the launch of MQA, they already have their hands full.

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