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DENON AVR-1912 - Impedance and calibration mic questions

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#1 ·
Hello everyone, i recently purchased a DENON AVR-1912 to start me on the home theater journey and i have a couple of questions:

I don't have the calibration mic unfortunately and they are not that easy to come by here. I found a DM-A405 for sale and i was wondering if it'd work properly with Audyssey on this model. I understand it came with the DM-A409 from the factory.

Also, I'm being offered a Dynaudio Focus 210 C center speaker, which is 4 ohms. This amp is rated 6-16 ohms, but can it handle 4 ohm center and maybe surround speakers?

Thanks a lot!
 
#3 ·
I found a DM-A405 for sale and i was wondering if it'd work properly with Audyssey on this model.
Well here is a 409 for sale
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and some others, though I don't know about shipping to...Argentina? (The flags by our names are very tiny, hard to see)
The microphones all look similar. If the price is not crazy I would want the correct microphone. But if not, hey, better to use a -405 with Audyssey than no Audyssey at all; my area is loudspeakers not microphones but as a transducer guy I would expect differences more at high frequencies than in the bass.
  • Is the -1912 compatible to the Audyssey App? That lets you adjust the curve if not quite to your taste.
  • REW and UMIK are great stuff but won't help you run the Audyssey on the -1912

As for the center, 4 ohm is fine. Impedance only matters at maximum volume and most 8 ohm speakers are really 4 ohm these days but receivers don't rate at 4 ohms due to some European heat test or such so nobody wants to rate their speakers as the 4 ohms they really are. And the "ohms" are much more complicated than that anyway. Do your AVR a favor though and get a fan like this
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