AV amp recommendations
 

After a new AV amp to replace my Sony 930 I have heard good things about the Yammaha stuff or maybe I should go Pioneer, ease of use is important along with multiple optical inputs :norty: any suggestions ?

Budget?

I have a Yamaha DSP-A1 - lots of optical inputs and it sounds fantastic, though I wouldn't exactly rate it as easy to use.

My Denon AVR 1905 was £260, and it has 3 optical inputs, 80 watts per channel, 6.1, 5.1 or 7 channel stereo.

As Daryl said, what budget do you have?

About £450 max :D

I recently changed my Sony 930 for a Denon AVR-2805. Probably a bit out of your budget, but the sound quality blows the Sony amp out of the water.

I've heard very good things about the Denon AVR-2105 (about 430 quid)...

http://www.av-sales.co.uk/html/denon_avr-2105.html

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...sPageName=WDVW

:D

loads of Denon AV amps on ebay...:D

Denon 2105 is £368 on kelkoo , you might pick up a 2805 with more searching about..

I love my 3300 , even though it's a few years old now.

Steve

Will that be enough to get a better sound than your 930? It might have more surround channels, but won't necessarily sound better. Or is your 930 broken?

Another one worth watching (if the Yammi goes into orbit..:D)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...sPageName=WDVW

The 930 is almost dead :(

my 940 is still going strong. have to admit i listened to a yamaha the other day and was well impressed, but again it was the flagship model and about 5 times your budget :eek:

I have a Pioneer VSX811X set up to run 7.1 and it's superb with movies, especially DTS :cool: but I do miss my old Yamaha DSP A2070 for the surround music effects. Will audition others when it comes to changing, but I feel it will probably be a switch back to Yammi, I just love classical on the "church" setting and blues in the "jazz club". I also have an audiophile stereo amp for true music listening, before anyone slates me using an AV amp for music :(

Don't buy on spec or reviews ! Take some discs along to a good retailer and have a proper demo. Try to audition with both DD and DTS, but also listen to some music and see what it can do with that. Like I said, my Pio is pants at surround music :(

Good advice that. That's what I did, and for me the Denon blew away both my old Sony 930 and the Yammi and Pioneers I listened to. All down to personal taste I guess :)

ditto,

my Denon mullered the Pioneer 814 I was comparing it to..

Yamaha is spot on. Havent tried the denon stuff though.

Bob

Denon.

I've got a new and completely unused silver one sitting here if you want it!

£150 :)

Yamaha RXV 750. Excellent bit of kit. Fairly east to use. Lots of Optical inputs.
Recomended.

Chip

I've got a Denon 3803 and it rocks with my Kefs....;)

Quite like the look of the Yamaha RXV 750 there's too many to choose from :eek: going to buy some magazines today and read up :D

Looks nice, (I still prefer the Denon though ;)) but I'd definitely want to hear it for myself rather than depend on magazine reviews. Might also be worth heading on over to avforums, as there is a lot of good information and reviews on there...

http://www.avforums.com

I have the Denon avr2805 tis a good bit of kit.

You really can't go too wrong with the majority of the current Denon Amps. I'd second a visit over to AV FOrums though - you're bound to find at least a few reviews of anything you're remotely interested in :)

K.

Will do :)