On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:40:30 GMT, sploo
wrote:

Stewart Pinkerton wrote:
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:15:11 +0100, "Keith G"
wrote:
Immediate reaction - I never saw the name Denon on anything in the least bit
crappy...

I did, the POA 6600 monoblocs. Got rave reviews so I tried them
against my Audiolab. Shoulda been called the POS 6600......

Otherwise though, I tend to agree. The kitchen system's all Denon, and
they used to make a great turntable. Currently, Denon and Pioneer are
duking it out at the top end of the 'Home Cinema' mass market, and I
wouldn't care to split them. I've always considered the Denon 380X
series to be excellent value for money, I feel the 280X tends to show
the results of cutting back too far on the costly power supplies. I'd
tend to buy an 'end of line' or even used 3804 rather than a 2805.

I put my own money on a Pioneer 'universal' player, but it could
easily have been a Denon.

Stewart, thanks for the info.

Are you using a surround setup at home, and if so, are you happy with
music reproduction?

Only on the PC! :-)

OTOH, I have several friends with 'home cinema' setups, and current
Pioneer and Denon A/V receivers seem to do a very good job on
2-channel stereo music, as well as 'surround sound' music videos.
Admittedly, I'm talking about the 3804 and the monster VSXA10i, but so
long as you don't stress them with insensitive speakers and loud
playback, the cheaper models should now be pretty reasonable. With
multichannel, you do still get what you pay for (if you're careful!)
in AV amps up to the 2 grand mark or so. I do know a guy with a
Lexicon MC8 and several Audiolab 8000Ps and Ms, and his 7.1 system is
quite awesome, but I suspect that this has as much to do with the full
set of B&W N-series speakers as it does with the electronics.
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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering