Video Asylum

Posted by DevillEars (A) on June 20, 2005 at 12:42:19

In Reply to: Home Theatre for the cheapskate? posted by Rich S. on May 22, 2005 at 11:37:44:

This package consists of: a one-box DVD Player/Receiver; a passive sub-woofer and 5 extruded aluminum speakers.

The speakers are 2-way, 3-driver designs comprising a 1" tweeter and 2 x 2.5" "yappers" (to call them "woofers" would be a gross exaggeration...) mounted in a cabinet consisting of a robust extruded aluminum section with two wood-grained fibre end-caps.

One of these is equipped for horizontal mounting as a centre channel.

The passive sub uses an 8" driver in a reflex cabinet - it is not particularly "seismic", but does the job.

The "head-unit" is a slim-line design (17" x 14" x 2.5") and features a single-disk transport, an RDS FM Tuner, and 6 x 100watt amplification channels. It supports MP3, WMA as well as DVD Video. It DOES NOT support either DVD-A or SACD (it was not intended as a multi-player).

It is also capable of de-interlacing to provide Progressive Scan feed from either PAL or NTSC media. Video outputs include Composite, S-Video and Component Video.

It can also be reconfigured to support 6.1 using an optional upgrade package which replaces the passive sub with an active sub and adds one more satellite speaker.

I've bought one and am very happy with what it does in the context of a separate, small-room AV set-up.

I don't know what the US list price would be, but the UK RRSP is GBP500, so should be around $800-$1,000.

I checked the Denon USA site, but they don't seem to show the 500, so check out the UK site in the link below.

Give it a audition/vidition (?)

DevillEars

• Denon UK Website   (Open in New Window)