In Reply to: There's a lot to be said by going with a big company. posted by Prisoners on February 1, 2010 at 17:58:45:
Denon is not perfect, but they certainly do the job well enough. I would have said Marantz too (same company), but once I learned in practice the value of a half-decent Audyssey implementation, when I choose to use it, I could not choose their offerings in the same price range. At the time anyway, oughta check up what they're doing right now. I wish Integra would truly acknowledge their units are only good for digital sources, and design their boxes appropriately (see Denon). Look like late-70s/80s designs when all switching was analog. Who doesn't use a remote to do stuff 95% of the time with a pre-pro these days?The Denon pre-pro was ~$7k in Canada when I went shopping last time. Besides that I'd have to rearrange my house to fit it in :), that seemed a bit much. Now I know better, I would be very happy with it, based on that the cheap Denon substitute has acquitted itself so well. [I don't put analog signals into my digital pre-pro, so they don't matter to me.]
Edit: can you tell the cheapskate in me would really rather buy the Integra? It does the digital pre-pro job just fine. The design is just not to my taste, which is irrelevant to anybody else.
Edits: 02/01/10
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