No Sound Output from speakers connected to DENON AVR X7200W

Verdinut

Verdinut

Audioholic Spartan
You don't follow them much so not a surprise. Yes, some avrs can turn off amps when used as pre-amp.....not a lot, tho.
With my AVR-3700, the amps are not actually turned off but only their inputs are disconnected. It's too bad that this AVR is not more energy efficient.
 
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m. zillch

m. zillch

Audioholic
With my AVR-3700, the amps are not actually turned off but only their inputs are disconnected. It's too bad that this AVR is not more energy efficient.
Thanks for pointing that out. I don't follow that specific topic closely but I would assume how your Denon behaves is the same for all Denons with this feature.

If they were to instead design a " full/maximum energy efficiency " version as you quite reasonably suggested there would be a problem in that if a consumer later decided to switch the amp section back on there would need to be a 4 to 5 second muted delay, "warm up", before the sound successfully emerged [just like all of us are used to when we power up an AVR] and some consumers would be thrown by that ~5 second delay and assume something was "wrong", hence run to call their dealer/CSR.
 
TLS Guy

TLS Guy

Audioholic Jedi
That Denon AVR have the Preamp mode which turns off the Amp section?

Where have you been? Denon has implemented that feature for like 5 years now. :D
I don't use AVRs and never will. But I can't find any data that any receiver switches off the power amps, but disconnects inputs to the power amps. This would make sense as receivers have regulated power supplies and switching off the amps would be too great a current change for regulation to cope with most likely. So you would need a power supply for the amps and another for the preamp/processor stage.
 
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