RE: That has been my experience

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Posted by cfraser (A) on February 2, 2010 at 16:01:14

In Reply to: RE: That has been my experience posted by gordguide on February 2, 2010 at 07:07:59:

I have long considered Onkyo/Integra. I was really hoping the 80.1 would have a more appropriate/modern design considering what it does. Also it bugs me a bit that some of the Onkyo models have features I want that the supposedly "higher" Integras don't. Onkyo/Integra cost MUCH more in Canada than in the U.S., and have just started to go mainstream here in the last year. I could buy in the U.S., but no warranty, and a warranty is another thing I have learned not to go without for these processors. I trust Denon's engineering a lot more than Onkyo's, so that's in my mind too.

I am using a Denon 3808 AVR as a pre-pro. HDMI only. It has worked well, and I have been looking for a worthy replacement for 2 years. Not because I don't like it, just the opposite. I am sufficiently impressed by it that now I want "better", before I was a bit dubious about this whole HDMI thing but 2 years has more than convinced me.

What has me waffling on the Denon A1 is it's "old". I've been looking at it for ~2 years, so it ain't new anyway...I keeep thinking they'll replace it, not that it's really the slightest bit out of date, and prices will "plummet" (they usually have a big sale at the warehouse here, which isn't that far).

Anyway, for the OP, the point is to buy a pre-pro from somebody who has proven they can do it. Right now. And not from somebody who has a "name" from doing something else. And takes forever to get with it, by which time they're a few years and plenty of bugs behind again.

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Topic - Processor nightmare.... - ABliss 07:50:44 02/01/10 (13)

AVRs are getting a lot better but have limitations - John C. - Aussie 17:20:33 02/05/10 (4)

RE: AVRs are getting a lot better but have limitations - cfraser 19:17:48 02/05/10 (3)

Quite a few video items run very hot - John C. - Aussie 19:39:11 02/05/10 (2)

RE: Quite a few video items run very hot - ABliss 21:05:47 02/05/10 (1)

RE: Quite a few video items run very hot - John C. - Aussie 22:01:23 02/05/10 (0)

RE: Processor nightmare.... - Alex F. 11:59:25 02/02/10 (2)

That's what I getting at with my response below. - Prisoners 13:20:36 02/02/10 (0)

RE: Processor nightmare.... - ABliss 12:45:35 02/02/10 (0)

RE: Processor nightmare.... - cfraser 17:01:29 02/01/10 (4)

There's a lot to be said by going with a big company. - Prisoners 17:58:45 02/01/10 (3)

That has been my experience - cfraser 19:49:24 02/01/10 (2)

RE: That has been my experience - gordguide 07:07:59 02/02/10 (1)

RE: That has been my experience - cfraser 16:01:14 02/02/10 (0)

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