Denon dead?

I was reading Thomas J. Norton's test report. What a beast of an AV receiver! I'd like to own one just for the WOW factor. Especially if it came cheap - and kept working!

Okay well so it has one fan anyway. Being a receiver you will be happy to find it can be replaced with a much better sounding integrated for a lot less. Then if you also use this as the opportunity to ditch all your other surround gear, possibly maybe keeping two speakers, then you will be happy to look back on this as your lucky day. 

If you can’t fix Denon on hand, I would grab a Marantz. There is no one else that have been consistent in keeping their line up to date and best sounding HT receivers as Marantz.

I owned one of those beasts about 5 years ago before I woke up and Moved to class D for surround ht system and never looked back.

I remember I bought it fairly local , about 120 miles so collected it and paid $750.

I do have the say the SQ was far and away the best I ever had from a surround sound all in one.

However it was huge, heavy and hot.
Sold it few months later for $800 so no complaints.

The point is that it was good, indeed very good in its day but I think you can do much better today for less cash.

I moved to all Nuforce for 7.1 pre processor and 8 channel class D power amp. Sure a few more interconnect but it was a massive step up in flexibility and SQ and runs stone cold and never touched it bar dusting it in the 5 years of ownership.

Just one example, plenty of options to explore today.

I have looked at the D's but I'm afraid of getting away from what I might need for the B&W 800's. I've read that they've come a long way but you'll still be pressed to find many purists who use them. For all out surround sound yes but for my needs, I may have to go big A and wear shorts and flip flops when the amp is on.