great features marred by poor quality
Pros: Sounds Great, lots of features
Cons: Overly complex set up, no Sirrus/XM net client, poor quality components
Bought this to upgrade from another Denon and get HDMI handling, 1080p upscaling and all of those kind of things. The automated speaker set up is great but the mapping of the buttons and inputs is overly complex. The Network radio section has just about everything BUT Sirrus/XM much to my dismay.
My real heartburn is that it has been in the shop 4 times in the first year. I have been without it about 2 of the last 11 months and Denon doesn't seem to be concerned about it.
Had a cold solder joint that was intermittent that took the first two times in to find followed by a bad HDMI board and now it seems to have problems that are heat related and intermittently just shuts down. Denon keeps blaming my speakers (which is hilarious since they are the same that were on the previous Denon unit for 5 years) and claiming there is nothing wrong with the unit.
Summary: Great features and a quite good sound if you can get one that doesn't need to go in the shop. My experience with Denon on this one may get me to switch to Yamaha.
My real heartburn is that it has been in the shop 4 times in the first year. I have been without it about 2 of the last 11 months and Denon doesn't seem to be concerned about it.
Had a cold solder joint that was intermittent that took the first two times in to find followed by a bad HDMI board and now it seems to have problems that are heat related and intermittently just shuts down. Denon keeps blaming my speakers (which is hilarious since they are the same that were on the previous Denon unit for 5 years) and claiming there is nothing wrong with the unit.Summary: Great features and a quite good sound if you can get one that doesn't need to go in the shop. My experience with Denon on this one may get me to switch to Yamaha.
