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Batteries Included: 1Binding: Electronics Brand: Denon Color: Black EAN: 0081757507851 Item Dimensions: Label: Denon Manufacturer: Denon Model: AVR688 MPN: AVR688 Publisher: Denon Studio: Denon Features:
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Editorial Review: Product Description: The AVR-688 surround sound receiver is network ready and can integrate into a home networked system when used with the optional ASD-3W/3N iPod docks, allowing more sources for playback then ever before. HDMI 1.3a video switching has been employed for today's demanding HD sources providing rich color quality for 1080p signals. Digital audio is distributed by either optical or coaxial connections to high speed surround processing circuits, for premium quality Dolby Digital and dts Digital decoding. Seven high current style amplifiers are used in the AVR-688 to deliver clean clear performance for unmatched sound quality from your DVD or set top box digital devices. Analog video up conversion makes switching various types of analog video signals easy, as duplicate wiring can be eliminated and signals channeled into one single component video output. Audio Delay is provided to allow for exact matching of audio and video signals when signal delays occur from some audio video sources. Denon?s newly styled pre-programmed remote control provides ease of use for the newcomer, or enhanced use for the seasoned user. Amazon.com Product Description: The AVR-688 surround sound receiver is network ready and can integrate into a home networked system when used with the optional ASD-3W/3N iPod docks, allowing more sources for playback then ever before. HDMI 1.3a video switching has been employed for today's demanding HD sources, providing rich color quality for 1080p signals. Digital audio is distributed by either optical or coaxial connections to high speed surround processing circuits for premium quality Dolby Digital and DTS Digital decoding. Seven high-current style amplifiers are used in the AVR-688 to deliver clean, clear performance for unmatched sound quality from your DVD or set top box digital devices. Analog video up-conversion makes switching various types of analog video signals easy, as duplicate wiring can be eliminated and signals channeled into one single component video output. Audio Delay is provided to allow for exact matching of audio and video signals when signal delays occur from some audio/video sources. Our newly styled pre-programmed remote control provides ease of use for the newcomer, or enhanced use for the seasoned user. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Good value, but you need a digital coax cableWatch out for one thing: this unit does not accept audio IN over the HDMI cable. This means that if you are connecting your Blu-Ray player to this receiver, the HDMI cable will only carry the video signal. For the audio signal you need to use a digital coax cable. Now, this may seem like a drawback, but let's do the math; if you want the HDMI to carry audio, you need to step up to the Denon AVR-788, which is $100 more than this unit (you also get some more wattage with the 788, although this 688 ... Read More Rating:  - So much better than the Onkyo TX-SR605!!My 2005 Yamaha 650 series was very good to me until my dog chewed one of the speakers wires and shorted out the receiver, so I decided to try the new Onkyo TX-SR605 model everyone was raving about besides the overheating problem with Onkyo, everything I heard about the receiver was good. Which I agreed until I tried the Denon. I did all the automatic speaker calibration which worked very well. The sound was ok but not very impressed so I tried tweaking with the sound but did not get much better. Remember, ... Read More Rating:  - Horrible in every wayI purchased this receiver at Circuit City to replace an old Yamaha, having upgraded to a plasma tv, a Wii and an upconvert dvd. I wavered between the Denon and a comparably priced Onkyo (TX-SR605). What a mistake! After 3 days of attempting to get all of my components to work properly I gave up and hooked everything up through the tv and then out to the receiver. Meanwhile I attempted 3 times in the next week and a half to contact Denon customer service by email for some help without an answer. One big problem ... Read More Rating: - Good product, terrible manualI agree with the prior review that the manual for this product is near-useless. Looks like a robotic translation of the Japanese original. I was minutes away from returning it to Amazon after 3 days of frustration. Noticed quite by chance that the manual mentions in a footnote that HDMI cable attachmnents do NOT carry audio through the AVR 688. Had to use optical audio cables and finally figured out that these were assignable inputs. Once I assgned them correctly, everything works just fine. ... Read More Rating: - Bad purchaseI purchased this product and for the first time in my entire life had to spend 3 evenings setting it up. Read the manual 3 or 4 times but the explanations are weak at best. Overall, very unhappy with this and I plan on returning it. To give you a bit of background i have a HDTV, PS3 and Mac Mini hooked up to the receiver and was looking for a solution that would give me a single cord for each component. I was very surprised when i discovered that this was not the case (that or i just couldn't ... Read More |
