There lies the only problem I have with the Sherwood Newcastle line. There entry level component upconverting receiver is MSRP $1499 but it has a great feature set including upsampling for PCM audio, seperate Zone 2 remote and an URC MX500 remote control. Sounds great too. They are coming out with less expensive receivers with up sampling at CEDIA.

This is a bad thing?

" I Sherwood like a different receiver " !!!!!!!

The bad thing is the $1499. If it was $1000-1200 it would be in the ball park with the Denon 3805 which is my go to piece. I am a Sherwood Newcastle booster. I am expecting to see the $1000 receiver at CEDIA.

I was informed today that the R-671 has upconversion. MSRP wil lbe about $100.00 less than the R-756, which is still around at this time.

I'm having a meeting with the rep tomorrow, and I can then confirm this....But it sounds pretty firm.

I'd have to check the spec sheet again, but I too am pretty sure the 671 had conversion up to component, and Im PRETTY sure I was watching a VCR tape on component inputs before it crapped out. Has a MASRP around $499 if I remember correctly.

For that matter, I thought the other entry level models had up-conversion as well. Too bad I didnt get a chance to play w it too long.

Regaurdless of the price, It sucks when stuff doesn't work!!!

Worse yet when it fails when you are demoing it to the client!!!

Worse yet is when you actually do a bench test, only to have the item fail after being installed in the clients system.....