I tried to get a similar reply in the past, but didn't have much luck so I figured I'd rephrase my question.
I bought one of the refurb'd 805's and it lasted a week before it died. I didn't really get a chance to try it on anything besides some music and a THX demo DVD.
I did set it up correctly, but wasn't blown away by the sound on music, but I also couldn't get it to go past 94db, so I'm thinking there might have been something wrong with the amp section since it did die. (Using Cerwin Vega's with 92db efficiency.)
I just today told Onkyo to credit me back the money instead of replacing it as I was going to get a HK 354. I love the warmer HK sound, but after reading for the last couple weeks I see the HK's are still having some problems so I kept on reading and ran across some good things being said about the Denon's. After checking them out the 2809 looks good, but in all honesty I really don't use the AVR for anything more than maybe 2% music listening.
So, is there really much difference in AVR's for strickly movies? I mean is DPLIIx going to basically sound the same on all receivers that have roughly the same power? Or is there as much difference as there is with music?
I got the 805 for $398. Since I only need it for movies I'm just not sure it's worth the extra $400 or so to move to the 2809? (Though I think Audyssey Dynamic Volume would be nice to have.)
Help me out pros.
Thanks!
I bought one of the refurb'd 805's and it lasted a week before it died. I didn't really get a chance to try it on anything besides some music and a THX demo DVD.
I did set it up correctly, but wasn't blown away by the sound on music, but I also couldn't get it to go past 94db, so I'm thinking there might have been something wrong with the amp section since it did die. (Using Cerwin Vega's with 92db efficiency.)
I just today told Onkyo to credit me back the money instead of replacing it as I was going to get a HK 354. I love the warmer HK sound, but after reading for the last couple weeks I see the HK's are still having some problems so I kept on reading and ran across some good things being said about the Denon's. After checking them out the 2809 looks good, but in all honesty I really don't use the AVR for anything more than maybe 2% music listening.
So, is there really much difference in AVR's for strickly movies? I mean is DPLIIx going to basically sound the same on all receivers that have roughly the same power? Or is there as much difference as there is with music?
I got the 805 for $398. Since I only need it for movies I'm just not sure it's worth the extra $400 or so to move to the 2809? (Though I think Audyssey Dynamic Volume would be nice to have.)
Help me out pros.
Thanks!