New Denon Receivers vs. Onkyos

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ericlhyman

Audioholic Intern
How does the quality reputation and feature set of the new Onkyo 875 and 905 compare to the upcoming Denon receivers in the same $1500-2,000 list price range?
 
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HDaddict!

Audiophyte
No one knows yet. The better Onkyo's are adding the lastest DSP engines from TI in order to do TrueHD and Master Audio lossless decoding and Burr-Brown 1796 DAC's... but, if they aren't implemented correctly can have negative impacts on feature sets and audio quality. Will DeepColor support just mean pass-through, or will the Silicon Optix video processors be able to do upconversion of incoming signals to xvYCC color depth (if you run the HDMI feed to a DeepColor display), and by doing so eliminate 8 bit color banding and other errors associated with such consumer grade video?

I don't think anyone knows what Denon (and its sister Marantz) is going to do. Heck, they haven't come out with any literature or firm specs. yet. I smell a delay a-brewin'.

Dan
 

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