techsamurai
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I can only imagine that having decided to differentiate by having full pre-outs in the Cinema series they're then trying to avoid putting XT32 into the lower end (i.e. lower amp power/channel count) devices, otherwise dealers would sell the low end device and external power amps. The SR6011 would be a bargain if it was still available.
Well, that would be true if accoustic correction was the only difference between the models. Usually, the higher-end models use more expensive DACs as we see with the Aventage A4A, A6A, and A8A in addition to having more power.
However, it appears that Marantz is very hush hush about the DACs they use and their specs suggest that many Cinema AVRs use the same DAC including some Denon models. We don't know what it is but I'm sure someone will figure it out. Or their specs for the models may be false...