Now, here’s the clincher: As good as the Denon is, it just can’t match the spectacular soundstaging of the DX1000. The potential for those spooky out-of-head experiences is just greater with the DX1000. Yes, I’ve had some of those heck-the-speakers-are-on type jolts with the D7000, but not as often as with the DX1000. There’s something about the way air moves around voices and instruments, something about the way sounds seem to bounce off the walls and decay that’s so convincing in the way the DX1000 throws its soundstage... It’s a wider, slightly reverberant, life-like, immersive soundstage. It’s the knockout punch for me. It’s why I’d keep the DX1000 if you put a gun to my head and forced me to choose one of them. It’s a photo-finish win for the DX1000, but a definite win.