Denon's New AVR-4810CI 9.3 Channel Receiver
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Denon just introduced the AVR-4810CI Audio/Video Receiver (SRP: $2,999), a next-generation 9.3 channel multi-zone A/V receiver that offers high-quality distribution of audio and video throughout the home. With nine built-in amplifiers that can be configured to a host of system designs, the AVR-4810CI offers unprecedented flexibility and support for high-definition audio and video performance from all digital sources.
Along with many of today's most advanced surround sound and distribution capabilities, the AVR-4810CI includes 6 HDMI inputs/2 outputs, all certified for HDMI 1.3a. It includes support for Dolby Pro Logic IIz, featuring Front Height Effects Channels, as well as Dolby TrueHD/ DTS-HD Master audio support for decoding the multi-channel recordings featured on Blu-ray and HD-DVD discs. It also features a built-in HDCD decoder, as well as a wide variety of performance and convenience features, including Vertical Stretch (2.35:1 CinemaScope) Mode, and a Video Control Adjustments Memory by input feature. Analog Video Conversion with Scaling to 1080p/24 uses advanced Anchor Bay Technologies (ABT) video processing and scaling.
Among the AVR-4810CI's leading-edge features and capabilities is the inclusion of Audyssey DSX with front height and/or expanded width channels. This advancement allows for a dramatic enhancement of the listener's 5.1- or 7.1-channel surround experience, adding a vertical component to the horizontal soundfield and/or widening the image field to recreate a more realistic movie theater-like experience. The enhanced spatial audio effect provides added presence and depth while maintaining the integrity of the source mix and ensuring audio is always appropriate to the source material.
Advanced Whole-Home Networking
The AVR-4810CI also includes a host of 21st century networking capabilities, joining other leading-edge products in Denon's line to feature both Ethernet and Wi-Fi connectivity (Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g certified) for control and digital media steaming. In order to provide users with even more flexibility and convenience, second zone video output is available via component with onscreen display for meta-data from iPod®/XM/HD Radio/Streaming Audio, providing a second zone within a home to experience high-definition video signals, audio and meta-data from connected devices. Two discrete AM/FM tuners, one featuring HD Radio, as well as Sirius and XM readiness provide for multi-zone distribution. The AVR-4810CI also features Rhapsody and Napster streaming audio via Internet without the necessity of a connected PC. It provides audio and video processing capabilities for three independent home entertainment zones, plus connectivity and control of Apple iPods that can be streamed to any of these zones. The height of "future-readiness," the AVR-4810CI even features a special "Party Mode" multi-zone network streaming management system for use with the ASD-51N/W Network Server/Dock. Notably, thanks to its preout connections for another set of channels for Audyssey DSX, the AVR-4810CI is in actuality a 4-zone AVR with 11.3-channel capabilities.
Custom Installation-Friendly Features
In addition to built-in Wi-Fi and Ethernet, the AVR-4810CI includes a host of features geared toward custom integrators, including easy system setup and maintenance from a remote location. This allows custom integrators to diagnose and even fix a customer's problem from their office and not waste time traveling to a customer's home. Once the unit is installed, the integrator can simply log on via secure website hosted by Denon and correct or restore settings that may have accidentally changed. Additionally, it allows users to stream and listen to music stored on a Windows PC, Mac and media server products or NAS devices supporting the DLNA standard.
For total ease and accuracy of set-up, the unit features Audyssey MultEQ XT Auto Setup and Calibration, along with the ability to use the advanced Audyssey Pro installer package, which measures ideal sonic performance in up to 32 different positions. This allows installers to define the ultimate sound quality for virtually any size or shape room.
Like all Denon receivers, the AVR-4810CI includes Audyssey Dynamic Volume, a volume leveling technology that frees listeners from the disruptive changes in volume levels when broadcast material changes between television shows and commercials or even while watching a movie. Coupled with Audyssey Dynamic Volume is Audyssey Dynamic EQ, a loudness correction technology that enhances the overall entertainment experience even further. Audyssey Dynamic EQ solves the problem of deteriorating sound quality of movies and music as volume is decreased. By selecting the correct frequency response and surround volume levels moment-by-moment, Dynamic EQ lets users enjoy the full palette of original rich sound at any volume.
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I JUST installed the one below this (the 4310) for one of my twenty-year custom-install clients last night, his Rotel receiver giving up the ghost six months outside of their incredible five-year warranty. Go figure.
It took ME four hours to connect and program. (And I understand this stuff!)
I didn't even get into the Sirius or XM satellite radio or Networking!
Took an hour to figure out their VERY poor owner's manual instructions for the whole HD Radio portion, since I even store all the Detroit radio stations for my clients. I've been gathering data on the HD Radio roll-out for a while, and really wanted to experience the latest. (I've been very excited about HD Radio, they seem to be finally gaining some momentum.) Denon doesn't even USE the 'TUNER' button any longer, although it is still on the damn remote...you must punch the DTU button to get AM/FM in either analog or HD. This point alone lost me a very frustrating half hour of my life that I would like back.
One very cool thing, when changing stations, they introduced a volume FADE out and in, so the tuning capture delay isn't really an issue, a VERY elegant touch for radio lovers who change stations often (when y'all start getting into HD Radio, if your city has forward-thinking programmers, you will be wandering the dial as if you never HEARD radio before! Detroit has a few stations that are really doing something with this technology, showing that the programmers/engineers STILL have the old early-FM passion for music when their computers let them run free!).
What a mess this thing is, when it could be truly great. The "Swiss-Army Receiver", it can do it all. As long as you have your own programmer/installer, or a few weeks to decode the Owner's Manual language and graphics/charts. I just wish I was finished with everything in time to actually listen to it, although it 'seemed' to be doing a fine job pushing his ancient KEF 104/2 and a/d/s/ surrounds! (When the Rotel is finished from repair, I may just go out for a comparison, if somebody wants to pay for my time.)
If only Denon's people had spent some time actually USING it before they shipped it.
Made in Japan, too, not China. Perhaps they traded the cost of an actual quality control person for someone better in the Owner's Manual department?! (I am beginning to doubt that in all the Chinese language there is not even a glyph for 'quality control', they are making the end-user serve that function for free or worse!)
Cheers!
I revisited this install last night, to simplify the remote controls battling for dominance on his coffee table.
The Dish Network remote didn't have the 'new' Denon codes.
The Denon remote didn't have the old Rotel DVD player code. Wouldn't learn it face-to-face.
I gave up after another wasted couple of hours, and will sell him a Universal 980 instead...apparently there is a future for external automation and control companies still.
We need to create a support group for frustrated folk, perhaps one for dealers and one for the customers we make crazy with our infectious insanity induced by promises unfulfilled.
I don't see ANYONE working to clear up the confusion and worse in our industry...
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