Have had the05 for almost a week now and I like it. I thought my Sunfire sounded good, but this has completely different sound. The Ultimate receiver would get harsh the closer I got to reference levels, the Elite sounds just as smooth at reference as it does at -20.
Before disconnecting the old receiver I played a few scenes from The Haunting so it would be fresh in my mind once I got the Pioneer hooked up. The 1st thing I noticed was the bass sounded and felt to have a faster response, the Sunfire was boomy in comparison. Much larger spacial soundfield and vocals were cleaner.
The ability to finally experience lossless audio is a joy!! There's no comparison to the Sunfire, which I thought sounded pretty good with the core dtsMA but the full codec is something else!!
Before disconnecting the old receiver I played a few scenes from The Haunting so it would be fresh in my mind once I got the Pioneer hooked up. The 1st thing I noticed was the bass sounded and felt to have a faster response, the Sunfire was boomy in comparison. Much larger spacial soundfield and vocals were cleaner.
The ability to finally experience lossless audio is a joy!! There's no comparison to the Sunfire, which I thought sounded pretty good with the core dtsMA but the full codec is something else!!