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Pioneer Electronics says:

The Pioneer® Elite® SC-07 A/V receiver boasts 140 Watts of power. Designed around a revolutionary ICEpower® Class D amplifier, the Elite SC-07 A/V delivers best in class multi-channel sound.

Built from the ground up for High-Definition surround sound, the SC-07 boasts 7 channels of surround sound, AIR Studios™ certification and Direct Energy amplification, allowing the SC-07 to operate at powerful levels with extremely low distortion and virtually no wasted energy. The result is enormous headroom and extraordinary detail, resulting in audio depth and richness that is truly breathtaking.

The SC-07 was designed to serve as the heart of the most complex of systems—to create a truly seamless experience. Four HDMI® inputs provide the highest quality connections for a full range of state of the art playback. The Faroudja® 1080p Video Scaler upscales video regardless of format, for exceptional picture quality. The SC-07 also features a Burr-Brown™ 8-channel Sampling Rate Converter for jitter reduction in all audio formats, as well as Wolfson digital to analog converters for full 192 khz audio performance.

Dual HDMI outputs provide the ultimate in flexibility. For example, in a home cinema configured with a plasma display for broadcast content and projection technology for Blu-ray Disc®, the SC-07 creates seamless integration and control…more