That has been my experience

Posted by cfraser (A) on February 1, 2010 at 19:49:24

In Reply to: There's a lot to be said by going with a big company. posted by Prisoners on February 1, 2010 at 17:58:45:

Denon is not perfect, but they certainly do the job well enough. I would have said Marantz too (same company), but once I learned in practice the value of a half-decent Audyssey implementation, when I choose to use it, I could not choose their offerings in the same price range. At the time anyway, oughta check up what they're doing right now. I wish Integra would truly acknowledge their units are only good for digital sources, and design their boxes appropriately (see Denon). Look like late-70s/80s designs when all switching was analog. Who doesn't use a remote to do stuff 95% of the time with a pre-pro these days?

The Denon pre-pro was ~$7k in Canada when I went shopping last time. Besides that I'd have to rearrange my house to fit it in :), that seemed a bit much. Now I know better, I would be very happy with it, based on that the cheap Denon substitute has acquitted itself so well. [I don't put analog signals into my digital pre-pro, so they don't matter to me.]

Edit: can you tell the cheapskate in me would really rather buy the Integra? It does the digital pre-pro job just fine. The design is just not to my taste, which is irrelevant to anybody else.

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Topic - Processor nightmare.... - ABliss 07:50:44 02/01/10 (13)

AVRs are getting a lot better but have limitations - John C. - Aussie 17:20:33 02/05/10 (4)

RE: AVRs are getting a lot better but have limitations - cfraser 19:17:48 02/05/10 (3)

Quite a few video items run very hot - John C. - Aussie 19:39:11 02/05/10 (2)

RE: Quite a few video items run very hot - ABliss 21:05:47 02/05/10 (1)

RE: Quite a few video items run very hot - John C. - Aussie 22:01:23 02/05/10 (0)

RE: Processor nightmare.... - Alex F. 11:59:25 02/02/10 (2)

That's what I getting at with my response below. - Prisoners 13:20:36 02/02/10 (0)

RE: Processor nightmare.... - ABliss 12:45:35 02/02/10 (0)

RE: Processor nightmare.... - cfraser 17:01:29 02/01/10 (4)

There's a lot to be said by going with a big company. - Prisoners 17:58:45 02/01/10 (3)

That has been my experience - cfraser 19:49:24 02/01/10 (2)

RE: That has been my experience - gordguide 07:07:59 02/02/10 (1)

RE: That has been my experience - cfraser 16:01:14 02/02/10 (0)

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That has been my experience - cfraser 19:49:24 02/01/10 (2)

RE: That has been my experience - gordguide 07:07:59 02/02/10 (1)

RE: That has been my experience - cfraser 16:01:14 02/02/10 (0)

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