FWIW: I have an Arcam AVR300 and it slaughtered the corresponding Marantz for sound quality at the time I bought it.
I have had reliability issues with Arcam in the past, but they sound great. I am still using an Arcam Alpha 9P amplifier from the 90s in my office system. I don't know how the AVR400 sounds but it looks like a great unit.
At one point I was using three Alpha amps (10P-3, 10P, 9P) for 7 channels from my AVR300. That sounded fantastic.
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