To understand why the unit gets hot during an update, one must understand the power state architecture of the X2300W.
Instead, if your receiver is stable, disable automatic firmware updates in the menu:
Finally, the AVR‑X2300W’s firmware story highlights a broader cultural shift: our devices live in time. We once judged products by their manufacturing quality or specs on release day; now we judge them by their trajectory—the frequency and quality of updates, the responsiveness of support, the alignment of future changes with user priorities. A “hot” firmware update is an inflection point in that trajectory: it can reinvigorate a product and its owners, or it can accelerate obsolescence and erode trust.
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