[kennyt]

Joe,

The NAD is a nice unit, but it doesn't seem to decode any of the new audio form,ats (DTS MA HD etc) and let's face it, you WILL own a Blu-ray (or maybe even an HD DVD) player someday, and will want to take advantage of the new uncompressed audio formats, so if you bought the NAD you'd have to replace it to do so, so I would look at the Marantz for that reason alone. Sonically I've never had the NAD in my home so I can't comment on it but have always been happy with their house sound.