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I've been underwhelmed by the Denon BluRay players but Marantz could have come up with the goods.
The 10-bit Silicon Optix Realta Chipset could put DVD on a par with my Denon DVD A1XV and I'd imagine audio would be much better given Marantz's pedigree in this area.
Finally, I'm interested in a BluRay player.
Best Regards,
Chris redmond.
Follow Ups:
The Denon made a very brief appearance in my home theater about two months ago. Good picture and reasonable sound via the analog outputs, but a fair amount of fan noise. Yes, a $2000 "audiophile" player with a loud cooling fan! The Sony BDP-S300 has significantly less mechanical noise and costs about seven times less. Be careful with the new Marantz, it appears to be a nearly identical design.
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that concern you or your setup (see the link below), welcome to the party.
All of the audio (except for AL24 on the Denon vs ? on the Marantz) and video processing issues that are present in the Denon 3800 are expected to be present in the Marantz 8002: in these areas, the two are identical. The Marantz step-up features from the Denon are supposedly copper shielding (More? Better?) and a "Marantz" power supply.
Ironically, both players are built by Funai (Funai, Sylvania, Symphonic, Emerson, Magnavox -- home of the $298 Blu-ray player, etc).
> > I've been underwhelmed by the Denon BluRay players but Marantz could have come up with the goods. < <
Guess what? It's a Denon DVD-3800BDCI under the covers :-)
"Guess what? It's a Denon DVD-3800BDCI under the covers :-)"
I know, and I've no complaints with Denon when it comes to the technology behind the video which is the best I've seen (and why I have a Denon now), but the Denon house 'sound' is underwhelming and the build quality of their latest BluRay players is a backwards step from their DVD players.
Marantz can be expected to deliver a far better sound quality from the audiophiles point of view with better analogue output stages and better power supplies, which is also important for HT when I'll be using the 7.1 analogue outputs.
That's what I expect then from Marantz, but whether that's what will be delivered we'll have to wait and see. :0)
Best Regards,
Chris redmond.
Concur. All that I'm hoping for is that Marantz improves the audio on the unit. It's also nice that Marantz is confirming that DD+ is internally decoded leaving only DTS-HD incapable of being internally decoded (although lossless DTS-HD MA is able to be internally decoded); although from what I can tell, very few discs have only DTS-HD so it's a non-issue in any case.
Shouldn't be long now as first units have shipped.
I am also interested in the Marantz and I am mostly interested in the audio support. I want to get something that internally decodes all of the new HD audio codecs because I do not have a receiver, nor do I want one. According to this -
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=980672
the Marantz streams and internally decodes all of the new audio codecs but the Denon does not.
Not sure what to believe. Will wait until it hits the street and see, or try the new Pioneer.
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