Classe SSP-800 - Time to move on?

So many choices in surround processors, but I think it's a good idea to bypass the processor for video...go direct from source to TV via HDMI due to all this HDR/4k/blah blah stuff.  With regards to room correction, boy, that's where stuff gets complicated.  Bryston doesn't even bother with it.  Anthem uses ARC, Krell uses ARES, Emotiva uses Dirac, NAD/Marantz/McIntosh(122) uses Audessey, Lyngdorf/McIntosh(160) uses Room Perfect...

I would argue that for a movie, audio quality isn't super important, right?  So regardless of how much processing "changes" the sound, the reality is, you just need the sound to work and be in the right spatially located area.  That means that ease of setup is probably the most important feature.  

I've used the AVM-60's ARC and Emotiva's Dirac (free and paid).  Personally, I think the SQ is all the same.  No big difference.  For me, at this point, for home theater, I want convenience and features at the right price.  I want a system that boots up quickly and is easy to set up.  My speaker/amp system uses RCA, so I don't really need balanced outputs.  I don't have more than 5 speakers so I don't care about Atmos X and whatnot.  I actually started with the AVM-60 but swapped it out (and saved a thousand bucks) by going with the emotiva XMC-1.  The only issue I have with it is the boot time.  I'm hard pressed to find a better processor with *some* room correction for a thousand, though. 

I replaced my Classe SSP800 in August with an Anthem AVM60 PrePro and a Hegel P30 Preamp with home theater bypass and it has worked out very well. I found the Anthem AVM60 has superior steering to the Classe and the ARC2 Room EQ is much better than the Classe SSP800 manual EQ. Surround sound movies sound fantastic. And it is nice that Anthem can pass 4k HDR through The HDMI versus running a separate hdmi cable for the video to the 4k tv. Two channel music sounds fantastic played through the Hegel. This was my solution and it has worked out very very well. 

Thanks jrn.   What do you mean by, "superior steering to the Classe"?

I have an ssp-800 with a Levinson 433 and 2x 431 amps in my HT. Stereo listening makes me warm and fuzzy but admittedly, from the HT standpoint I’ve looked high and low for a replacement and it’s all because of U4K video resolutions. From a purely sonic standpoint I couldn’t part with the Classe. In the end, I ended up with an outboard HDMI switcher, Crestron HD-MD6X2-4K-E 6x2.  They do have smaller ones.  I couldn’t be happier with the decision. In a perfect world, I’d forego golden convergence (audio, video and IP networking) for discrete components but manufacturers don’t seems to want to embrace such an old school line of thinking. The challenges of delay can be a real pain but where there’s a will there’s a way.

Thanks Ulmerc.  I decided to stick with my Classe SSP800 at least for the time being.   As I move toward a 4k player(oppo205) and a 4K projector, I'll definitely look in to the Crestron switcher you mentioned.