Can someone please explain to me why Denon is adding more internal amplifiers to the new upcoming flagship AVR? Who's demanding this? Market, customers?
Is this for bragging rights? I mean how many customers will use 15 speakers? Or better yet, how many speakers can you fit in normal size room? If you have a dedicated theater room to fit all those speakers, it will have to be on a larger size, and depending on the type of speakers used, this AVR may not do the "best" job of powering them to THX reference levels.
Denon AVR-A1H
Features
- 8K and 4K/120 on all inputs and 2 outputs - total 7/3 HDMI
- 15.4 channel surround sound support
- 4 independent RCA and XLR subwoofer outputs
- Supports up to 9.1.6 Dolby Atmos speaker layout
- DTS:X Pro, Imax Enhanced, Auro 3D
- HEOS Built-in, with WiFi and Bluetooth
- Incredible configuration flexibility with 15.4 channel processing capability and Pre-Amplifier mode
- Dirac Live Upgradability
- New and modern HD GUI TV user interface for setup and daily use
Price: $6,499
avc-x8500h was around £3k the 8k video boards are around £450 the rest of the a1h seems bit extremely overpriced ? a modification for CB radio for extra bands or 40 channels of triple low/high on small circuit board less then £60 and that's 40 more channels for the upgrade , 40 more channels . and denon offers 2 more channels and possibly allows the , a1h to run
front wide L - L C R - front wide R
side sur L side sur R
rear sur L rear sur R
atmos format
overhead1 L overhead1 R
overhead2 L overhead2 R
overhead3 L overhead3 R
so with the above ^ are all those channels active without trading off two channels like the avc-x8500h , if want to use front wide L R the avr trades off the rear back surround ?
the front wide is rubbish a few little sounds i heard when testing with opening " midway " atmos , very disappointing re-recording mixing atmos
i guess overhead 4 is assignment switching for upper centre and auro middle upper centre overhead
overhead4 overhead4
i'd rather have one my CB radios modified to quadruple high band and low band , but no point today hardly anyone transmits down on these low bands nearer 24Mhz or 29Mhz pointless just ham uses up there and most of them are boring like most audiophiles are
so see my point ? so see my point ?
why the silly extreme prices for more of this " rubbish immersive " for rubbish woke movies that calm they are " storytelling " end up being woke rubbish like , top gun mavrick , worst boring disappointing Dolby atmos sound mix to come around in 36 years ? 36 years ?
more should be focused on
below surround all this overhead sound has been around since 1969 70mm cinerema gaumont/odeon bournemouth and experimental overhead surround at CIC/UCI tower park 10 plex m since 1989 .
where is below surround ? once that comes there be sort of no need for all this anymore
all these immersive formats are con . get us all buy a new avr that is totally rubbish now .
most of the sound formats on the denon avc-x8500h that i use are , ( multi ch stereo ) for sound testing alignment calibration as i can use REW and mute certain channels to align the sound with REW sound generator .
stereo mode hardly use it
dolby dsu is rubbish , centre has whooshy phasey ( yet when using proper Dolby pro logic on any of cinema processors i don't hear that flawed sound in the centre )
dts x , nev er will buy blu/4k with dts x again , mostly old movies are a scam they are cheap upmixes that sound like done in few hours rather than have access to the steam/tracks and spend months mixing , all new as its craft to do mixing with overhead surround , all " we " end up getting is woke-overhead scam , rip off , very disappointing .
dolby atmos hardly use it , hardly buy any new movies anymore and even old ones are just rubbish , cheap manual upmixes to sell the Dolby labs , atmos as cash cow . may as well call it , Dolby CowMos , Dolby MilkMos . fed up with the scamming by these cheap hollywood movie studios re-recording mixes . the trend for good decent Dolby mixes that was once called , DOLBY STEREO 35mmm or 70mm those mixes still wow me . the Dolby CowMos hardly wows me ?
only tiny % Dolby Atmos that wowed me out of 10 no - years , ten - no years , from opening to end credits has been , " Gravity " 2013 .
like , " superman the movie " 1978 theatrical 70mm was first ever 5.1 , no not that , " apocalypse now " dialogue mostly all dumped in the centre with tiny on-screen pans . the stereo surrounds aren't all that good . the LFE or baby boom on it not as good as , " superman the movie " which is a must listen to anyone that is old enough ? old enough ? anyone that saw 70mm back then or most cinemas would have only had 35mm still with the directional dialog on screen panning .
i not in the market for new Denon for sake of expensive 2 more channels that when e CB radio upgrade 40 extra channels . 40 . a trinnov32 with that extra box to expand the channels at greedy expense , i guess its such disappointing processor just like , storm-audio , sony , marantz , denon , yamaha , onkyo , anthem , and all the rest that are just copycatting the same more channels along the sidewalls speakers ->> OOOOOO and more overhead speakers -> OOOOOO and almost 0 zero for below surround ????? such a boring immersive format .
at least my THX cinema has below surround matrix which is more than a denon , trinnov even Dolby CP850