Hello,
I haven't been around much because I've been happy with my gear
Well, I am ready to replace my Marantz SR-8400 in the living room. It has no HDMI and a couple of the connections are going bad on it. The onscreen display doesn't work either, so I cannot change the assigned inputs and am in need of doing so now. I do not want to spend the money to get the old thing repaired. Sadly, it still sounds fantastic and I hate to get rid of it but it's time.
What I'm looking for is simple. I want it to do what the Marantz did, with some added features. As for power, any modern receiver is capable of what I need it to do. I am looking for adequate sound and a decent feature set.
I need the following:
5.1 surround in the living room + 2.0 zone 2( audio only, internal amp) + 2.0 zone 3(audio only through an external amp)
HDMI in for blu ray player, XBox 360, HD Cable DVR, PC, and Roku XDS
Component in for Wii
And preferably:
Networking with airplay, pandora, DLNA streaming
ALL video in's out through HDMI (wife would LOVE a one cable to display setup if not too expensive)
OSD via HDMI (would go with above I would guess??)
iOS app control would be awesome, but certainly not required
An additional question I have is this. Currently on the SR-8400 I cannot output digital sources to zone 2 and zone 3 which really sucks because I have to hook up my iphone or ipad via analog connections to stream via the receiver currently. I realize digital output to additional zones is an expensive option. Can the internal streaming on these modern receivers be outputted to the additional zones?
Thanks,
Pat
I haven't been around much because I've been happy with my gear
What I'm looking for is simple. I want it to do what the Marantz did, with some added features. As for power, any modern receiver is capable of what I need it to do. I am looking for adequate sound and a decent feature set.
I need the following:
5.1 surround in the living room + 2.0 zone 2( audio only, internal amp) + 2.0 zone 3(audio only through an external amp)
HDMI in for blu ray player, XBox 360, HD Cable DVR, PC, and Roku XDS
Component in for Wii
And preferably:
Networking with airplay, pandora, DLNA streaming
ALL video in's out through HDMI (wife would LOVE a one cable to display setup if not too expensive)
OSD via HDMI (would go with above I would guess??)
iOS app control would be awesome, but certainly not required
An additional question I have is this. Currently on the SR-8400 I cannot output digital sources to zone 2 and zone 3 which really sucks because I have to hook up my iphone or ipad via analog connections to stream via the receiver currently. I realize digital output to additional zones is an expensive option. Can the internal streaming on these modern receivers be outputted to the additional zones?
Thanks,
Pat