And in this case, I'm pointing it out for you guys.
My Yamaha DSR-70 is a really nice unit and works quite well and the A700 is another good unit.
Some of you might recall I had an early ('99-'01-ish) Onkyo DR-90 with a bad STK on the right chs that I enjoyed a lot, with it's built-in DVD/CD drive, Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS. It was a solid musical amp as well as a great surround set. I sent it off to a friend for his classroom and unfortunately it quit again for him but I never had a problem I didn't recover from and it drove my homebrews happily mad!
I have more trouble with SONYS! A Sony employee told me on the phone that you cannot run all channels at once in Dolby mode, only A and Rears, center...as a result I had a few with a crippled A or B and working Dolby outputs and gave then to friends cheap with the instructions to run the working pair and rears for 4-speaker setups. This worked and since these friendd are even more broke than me they appreciated them a lot.
My stuff goes around the adult foster homes and other homes and sometimes in and out of the pawn shop and I've actually gone and repurchased some of it to send around again.
So if I point out a surround amp I try to point out what I think will work well.
I LIKE Yamahas from this period actually, as they aren't so busy with 'stuff' and the build looks nice.
