The **OFFICIAL** Denon AVR-XX13 Model Owner's Thread & FAQ - Page 173

Originally Posted by Saliss 

For Airplay to work you need to be on the "same broadcast network domain" or simply put you need to be physically connected to the same switch/ Wireless AP. This is the limitation of the Apple's Bonjour Service, which is required for Apple network devices to find each other for services such as Airplay or Airprint. You can independently connect to internet and even your DLNA services will be running through Network but not Airplay if there is any issue with network broadcast domain.

Firstly, you need to ensure if your iOS device can discover Airplay service broadcast by Denon. For this download any Bonjour Browser App from App store and see if you can find Denon on it (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/discovery-bonjour-browser/id305441017?mt=8)

If it is not then in that case you need to do network troubleshooting rather do any setting on Denon. What Wi-fi device(s) are you using? there are certain settings on particular Wi-fi devices that are enabled by default and can interfere with Bonjour Service.

Originally Posted by highyellow1 

Saliss, thanks for the info. I've downloaded the app and only see the Apple TV and Macbook Pro (itunes library). So I understand that I need to adjust network settings. I'm currently using the ATV & multiple mobile devices (laptop/iphone/etc) on the wireless signal being sent out by the Actiontech MI424-WR. I also have the Western Digital LiveWires connected and feeding network capability to the PS3 and Denon receiver. I wonder if the LiveWire is where the problem lies?

Any suggestions?

Originally Posted by BBrix 

My components are the same as yours (phone is iPhone in case that matters). The Denon app will only play one song at a time, which means the app needs to be running to load successive songs; i.e., if you start playing an album, it will stop after playing after it finishes the song it was playing when you turned off the app. In this mode, it appears that the receiver is only capable of receiving a command to load a single song, after which it can work on its own until the song ends. At that point it needs another command from the external control.

In the DLNA world, you can involve a third component (DLNA control point) to direct streaming from your server (Serviio) to the render (Denon). I tried a few of the free apps without a lot of luck, though the focus was on playing albums as a playlist is something I would typically load when entertaining and was fine standing in front of the TV loading this via the IR remote.

As a quick experiment, I tried a playlist with Twonky Beam. It did not run the playlist directly, put allowed you to load the songs into its queue. After that, I turned off the phone (without running anything else on it), and the songs played to completion. My knowledge about running apps in the background or while the phone screen is off is limited, so I do not know how stable this solution would be. The App is free for both iOS and Android, so it would only cost time to try.

Originally Posted by jdvoracek 

You don't have to do anything to the AVR. With the default settings, it can even be powered off, and it will turn itself on. Sorry you're having trouble. .

Originally Posted by batpig 

Honestly, I highly doubt that power is an issue. All of the current Denon models are close enough in terms of power to have it be a relatively moot point when making a decision. Review the models in the first couple of posts in this thread where they are compared in detail, and choose the one which meets your needs in terms of FEATURES and connectivity.

Originally Posted by batpig 

No, what I am saying is that all of them should be able to get equally loud with your speakers. I simply don't think power is the issue.

The difference between 80 watts and 120 watts is maybe 2dB of MAX headroom. The sound quality differences you think you have noted are almost certainly NOT due to power, unless you can explain more clearly what you experienced and convince me otherwise

Originally Posted by batpig 

OK, that's the type of detail that is helpful. If you were actually driving the receivers into distortion / protect mode then, yes, you are going being their limits in terms of power. Most of what people do falls into the "normal listening" that you refer to, in which case people are typically only using 10 w/ch or less.

But power demands are exponential -- 10dB increase in SPL requires 10x the power! So you can run out of power really quick if you are trying to blast the roof off for parties.

The Pio 1021 only tested out at around 45-55 watts/ch with 5 channels driven: http://www.hometheater.com/content/pioneer-vsx-1021-av-receiver-ht-labs-measures

The mid level 1913 tested at around 70-80: http://www.hometheater.com/content/denon-avr-1913-av-receiver-ht-labs-measures

Whereas the top level Denon 3312 (should be the same as the 3313) tested at around 80-100: http://www.hometheater.com/content/denon-avr-3312ci-av-receiver-ht-labs-measures

So realistically, best case, the 33xx level would have about double the "real world" power, which would actually only give you about 3dB of extra headroom. So the honest truth is that if you are going agro at your parties, you may even go into auto protect mode with a $1k unit like the 3313ci.

I do think the mid level Denons will sound better due to their Audyssey features, but you may still be hitting the wall when you go into party mode.

Originally Posted by EL Duke 

Ive just got a 2113,this is my first receiver and have got it set up fine however i am having a problem with gettin dts hd ma with my blurays. So far I have only tried the dark knight rises, lawless and dredd. Dredd shows in the display dts hd ma no problem, the other two however are only showing dts. I tried a few things before i left for work and am pretty stumped as to what to do. I went into my bluray audio settings and it is set to bitstream. I popped in lawless got to the title screen went into audio and the 2 options are dts hd ma and 2 channel audio description. Played the film, 2113 shows dts. Held the film button for 3 seconds to pull up the audio options and it is set to dolby digital surround. No option for dts hd. I then checked the audio settings on the bluray player and it shows the master track as being dts hd master audio.
Popped in dredd got to title screen and the only audio options are 5.1 dts hd ma, played the film and low amd behold it shows dts hd ma on the 2113. When i held the film button to pull up the audio options it shows dts hd audio as a setting.

Originally Posted by Saliss 

I downloaded the app on both iOS and Android devices. The app shows 2 Denon AVR 3313 entries and none of them seems to work. When I did a complete power recycle of the AVR it just played the first note of the first song and got disconnected.

Note that the Direct Denon to Serviio operation is working ok i.e.; playing 1 song at a time from Serviio as before and Twonky Beam is also seems to be working well when I play any content from Serviio to another DLNA Renderer (Samsung ES7500 series TV) .

Any ideas?

Originally Posted by EL Duke 

Ive just got a 2113,this is my first receiver and have got it set up fine however i am having a problem with gettin dts hd ma with my blurays. So far I have only tried the dark knight rises, lawless and dredd. Dredd shows in the display dts hd ma no problem, the other two however are only showing dts. I tried a few things before i left for work and am pretty stumped as to what to do. I went into my bluray audio settings and it is set to bitstream. I popped in lawless got to the title screen went into audio and the 2 options are dts hd ma and 2 channel audio description. Played the film, 2113 shows dts. Held the film button for 3 seconds to pull up the audio options and it is set to dolby digital surround. No option for dts hd. I then checked the audio settings on the bluray player and it shows the master track as being dts hd master audio.
Popped in dredd got to title screen and the only audio options are 5.1 dts hd ma, played the film and low amd behold it shows dts hd ma on the 2113. When i held the film button to pull up the audio options it shows dts hd audio as a setting.

Originally Posted by JVL 

Hi all,

I just upgraded from an Denon AVR3806 to the AVR3313 and am experiencing video "distortion" with the new setup. I have a Dish Network 211 HD STB connected thru the AVR3313 to a Samsung SP710 projector (720p DLP). The picture from the STB seems to be zoomed and stretched to the point that the left and right side of the picture is severely cropped. As an example, half of the Science Channels "bug" is cropped. I have tried all combinations of AVR, STB and projector settings with no luck in resolving this issue but there doesn't seem to be any controls that fix this scaling issue. The AVR3806 did not exhibit this, but this is to be expected as this model had only HDMI switching with no video processing.

I have not tried to replicate this on my other sources yet (Oppo BDP83, XBOX), nor have I tried putting the AVR in standby bypass mode yet.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks,
Joe

Originally Posted by jdsmoothie 

^^
You may want to try powering off the AVR and unplugging it for 10 minutes to see if that resolves the issue. Also try backing out of the Internet radio and then going back in to it.