I'm new to this forum. I've had Klipsch speakers for 4 years now and just love them.I have this receiver, just picked it up two weeks ago.It cost me $441. I havent had a chance to play around with everything it can do with it yet, but the DD-Ex and DTS-Es sound great. You can leave you main speakers as large to enhance the double bass it can perform. I had a HK and I can say they sound about the same. THe only thing is I have 85 watts per channel from the Onko compared to 45 from HK. They are both good receivers. Really the best way to do it is go out and test them with a set-up your looking at.
Art