Denon Receiver

[lanky]

Looking at purchasing the Denon AVR 2307 receiver to run my home audio surround sound as well as a few other zones. Am I making the best choice in equipment for the buck?

 

[Buckeyefan 1]

Looking at purchasing the Denon AVR 2307 receiver to run my home audio surround sound as well as a few other zones. Am I making the best choice in equipment for the buck?

How big is the room? What type and how many speakers are you running? What is your budget? How loud do you listen to music/movies? Do you need a lot of HDMI inputs?

 

[Leprkon]

if you don't mind a refurb, you can definitely call it the best receiver for the buck.

http://www.secondact.biz/product/AVR2307CIRB

although, for just a few bucks more than that, if you don't need HDMI, you can go up a couple of steps...

http://dakmart.com/itemdetails/28983/173/

it doesn't do the video magic, but it's a much more powerful piece of equipment.

 

[Seth=L]

The Denon AVR-3805 is a pretty nice unit, with solid build quality.

 

[avaserfi]

I love my denon receiver, I didn't get it quiet as cheap as those refurbs but I did get it cheap. My biggest complaint would have to be traversing that damn manual it might as well be in another language, but once you figure it out its pretty simple...for the most part.

 

[edmcanuck]

Looking at purchasing the Denon AVR 2307 receiver to run my home audio surround sound as well as a few other zones. Am I making the best choice in equipment for the buck?

A few other zones?? The Denon will give you one 5.1 zone and one 2.0 zone. That's it. If you want "zones" you're looking at a much pricier market.

 

[BabelFish]

if u don't mind waiting 30(ish) days.. the 3808 and 4308 will be coming out also (knock on wood). (not sure about ur budget though)

 

[Davemcc]

The AVR-2307 is a solid receiver with good power and plenty of connectivity, but it can be pricey. I am quite happy with mine.

You may also want to look at the Yamaha HTR-6060 or RX-V661 that seem to be equal to the AVR-2307 but mush less expensive.

 

[darien87]

My biggest complaint would have to be traversing that damn manual it might as well be in another language, but once you figure it out its pretty simple...for the most part.

I think that's pretty much all of them. The manual for my Yamaha was pretty lame. In the LFE set-up section, it says to set the output to "sub" if you want "natural" bass, and set it to "both" if you want "rich" bass. What the hell is the difference between "rich" and "natural" bass?!?!

I bet the engineers are writing the manuals in Japanese and then translating them to English.

 

[Davemcc]

I can't believe that an engineer wrote the Denon manual. The best description I've heard (can't remember who wrote it, sorry) is that they took all the instruction pages and threw them up into the air and arranged the manual according to the order in which they picked the pages up.

 

[Leprkon]

I bet the engineers are writing the manuals in Japanese and then translating them to English.

I think the engineers are writing in Japanese engineeringese and Japanese bookwriters are converting it to bookwriting English where it is eventually attempted to be read by American off-duty engineers....