How to Screw up a Good Buy (Denon AVR 2106}

[darvish]

It is Sunday, now, but only by 15 minutes...
Super Bowl Sunday, as a matter of pertinent fact:
Not that I'm particularly a huge "football" fan
(I got over that when Davis moved the Raiders to Los Angeles a few years ?? back...]

but I have a bunch of friends coming over for beers, burgers, dogs and lies.

And yesterday: I mean day before yesterday, this being Sunday now,
and "then" being Friday:

my 14 year old Onkyo TX NR636 made a giant POP sound,
and went into "protection mode" as at least one power amplifier section
sizzled it's diode's. (Die-odes??) [oh ha ha]]

Now, when i was young and foolish-er, I may have undertaken to replaced the departed parts,
but having noted the 6 circuit boards that would have to be removed before even getting to the
danged parts, and having learned that I'm really not as competent as I thought I was the past
many decades, and may not be diagnosing the matter correctly anyhow,

I decided to check in with my local on-line direct sale wheeler-dealer site and see if anyone had a tempting
Home Theater type receiver which sat at the intersection of the "cheap" and "serviceable" value-lines.

Having enjoyed the 7.1 Onkyo, I thought to replace it if one was offered by someone in the "Greater Sacramento" area:
which there was not one of (to end a sentence prepositionally): but there was a really clean 7.1 Denon nearby, to wit,
the one before me in all it's AVR 2106 Gloriousness, WITH NO GD HDMI connectors.!

I ASSumed that a 7.1 ANYTHING would fer shure have a few HDMI connectors:
and when I looked at PICTURES of the back I saw the 3 ventilation slots towards the middle AS the connectors,;;
and I am a JackAss .... [sob]

I read Glowing Reviews at various sites,
downloaded and skimmed {?scammed??}the owner's manual,
and
bf'd
myownself.

Let my example be a warning to ye:
Dinna blind yoself to reality:
Dinna let expectations cloud awareness,
as the bitter broth of disappointment will choke your drinking of it,
and you will feel the fool,
and forced to become an example of "stupid incarnate",
in hopes of expunging the stain.

And then to go forth once more,
more carefully, one would hope.

I'll "jury rig" something by game time:
May even have to (ugh) use the speakers in the TV.

Oh, to stoop to such depths!

 

[isolar8001]

I'm more concerned about how small your feet are....how did you not fall forward holding that ancient 20 year old beast ??
(it has optical by the way...you are good to go)

 

[Eppie]

Yeah, for an emergency get an optical cable and run it from the TV to the AVR for now. Pretty much every big screen TV has optical out. You may have to configure it in the TV settings (disable the built in speakers).

 

[lovinthehd]

Gotta do your research (and "glowing reviews" isn't really research)....but hopefully it does work well with the optical!

 

[TLS Guy]

It is Sunday, now, but only by 15 minutes...
Super Bowl Sunday, as a matter of pertinent fact:
Not that I'm particularly a huge "football" fan
(I got over that when Davis moved the Raiders to Los Angeles a few years ?? back...]

but I have a bunch of friends coming over for beers, burgers, dogs and lies.

And yesterday: I mean day before yesterday, this being Sunday now,
and "then" being Friday:

my 14 year old Onkyo TX NR636 made a giant POP sound,
and went into "protection mode" as at least one power amplifier section
sizzled it's diode's. (Die-odes??) [oh ha ha]]

Now, when i was young and foolish-er, I may have undertaken to replaced the departed parts,
but having noted the 6 circuit boards that would have to be removed before even getting to the
danged parts, and having learned that I'm really not as competent as I thought I was the past
many decades, and may not be diagnosing the matter correctly anyhow,

I decided to check in with my local on-line direct sale wheeler-dealer site and see if anyone had a tempting
Home Theater type receiver which sat at the intersection of the "cheap" and "serviceable" value-lines.

Having enjoyed the 7.1 Onkyo, I thought to replace it if one was offered by someone in the "Greater Sacramento" area:
which there was not one of (to end a sentence prepositionally): but there was a really clean 7.1 Denon nearby, to wit,
the one before me in all it's AVR 2106 Gloriousness, WITH NO GD HDMI connectors.!

I ASSumed that a 7.1 ANYTHING would fer shure have a few HDMI connectors:
and when I looked at PICTURES of the back I saw the 3 ventilation slots towards the middle AS the connectors,;;
and I am a JackAss .... [sob]

I read Glowing Reviews at various sites,
downloaded and skimmed {?scammed??}the owner's manual,
and
bf'd
myownself.

Let my example be a warning to ye:
Dinna blind yoself to reality:
Dinna let expectations cloud awareness,
as the bitter broth of disappointment will choke your drinking of it,
and you will feel the fool,
and forced to become an example of "stupid incarnate",
in hopes of expunging the stain.

And then to go forth once more,
more carefully, one would hope.

I'll "jury rig" something by game time:
May even have to (ugh) use the speakers in the TV.

Oh, to stoop to such depths!

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I like your poetry! But truly AV has been evolving fast, and buying an out of date AVR or AVP is never a good buy. Moving forward this may change as this field is maturing, and I think approaching maturity after 25 plus years or so.