Are one of these brands better than the other in the amp department? Or don't bother with either. I want 2 things, Quality and Value.

I've been trying to read some to educate myself, but to me receivers is all I knew in the home. Although I dealt with pro component Amps a lot in the stage/theater world, I certainly never got into A/B comparisons and performance testing, thus I don't know the intracacies.