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In Reply to: RE: not the latest dtsMA or Dolby TRue HD, the 1082 posted by Kal Rubinson on February 9, 2008 at 17:33:46:
"Better for the manufacturers to have a bigger mark-up on fewer items."
Denon has 13 (thirteen!) 7.1 channel Home Theater receivers listed on their Receivers page. Why the hell can't they put out one moderately priced surround preamp/processor? Surely the $1200 AVR-2808's seven internal 110wpc amps are worth 400 "marked-up" dollars, so that $800 example seems about right. If you want a separate (non-receiver) surround preamp/processor from Denon, it'll cost you $7k for their AVP-A1HDCI.
The rediculous part is that they don't offer preamp outputs until you get to the 4 highest priced models (the ones with the most amp output wattage for crying out loud!), coincidently one of which you would need to buy in order to get DTS-HD MA and Dolby TrueHD advanced audio decoding. If they are putting preamp outputs on a receiver, they must intend for the buyer to use them. But if the buyer intended to use the preamp outputs, they more than likely had no use for the receiver's amps in the first place! That's an evil strategy and that kind of shit needs to stop.
I'm not singling out Denon, either: Pioneer, Onkyo, Yamaha, Sony, etc get the same grade of "F" as well when it comes to this topic. They all need to stop dicking the consumers and show some sense of restraint re: their greed.
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Follow Ups
- fair enough, but... - Joe Murphy Jr 00:00:51 02/10/08 (4)
- Look at Marantz. - budget fi 07:27:18 02/10/08 (2)
- easy answer - Joe Murphy Jr 09:46:13 02/10/08 (1)
- If the only difference is the amps... - budget fi 16:22:16 02/10/08 (0)
- RE: fair enough, but... - Kal Rubinson 06:29:08 02/10/08 (0)
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