Denon AVR-1906 7 Channels Home Theater A/V Receiver

by Denon

Product Details

• Item Weight: 30 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 31 pounds
• ASIN: B000AQQI1E
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #193,006 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 1, 2006

Product Description

This fine home-theater surround sound receiver has been Factory Refurbished to perform as new. It comes with 90-Day Denon Warranty coverage. The AVR1906 receiver delivers great home theater sound and offers convenience features to make your home entertainment system easy to use and enjoy. The high-current amplification drives up to 7 home theater speakers with power and precision with an additional port for adding a subwoofer. The built-in surround sound decoding options, including DTS Neo:6, Dolby Pro Logic II and Dolby Pro Logic Iix, let you enjoy high-impact surround sound from movies, TV shows, music and video games. The full on-screen display makes it easy to optimize the system performance. Just plug in the included microphone and the receiver automatically calibrates itself to your room and sets the settings for every speaker in your system. Use the 7 Channel Stereo Mode to turn single channel sources, including tapes, stereo radio and stereo video into surround sound. 32 bit SHARC DSP processor 85 Watts per channel into 8 ohms x up to 7 channels for home-theater surround Personal Memory Plus Virtual Surround (for use with 2 speakers) 24 bit, 96 kHz DACs with 24 bit, 96 kHz digital interface receiver Audio Delay Auto setup (microphone included) for optimal sound distribution Speaker A/B (front) selector Zone 2 audio out Subwoofer Pre-out, with Variable Hi/Low Pass Cross-over points (40/60/80/100/120/150/200/250Hz) Front Panel A/V inputs, including Optical Digital input 6 Channel External Input (for DVD-Audio & SACD) with wideband (100 kHz) frequency response Assignable digital inputs Banana plug compatible speaker terminals all channels (speaker connect wire is optional as are speakers) Pre-programmed remote control features TV, VCR, DVD codes from other manufacturers Remote in/out jacks

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4.0 out of 5 stars The candid balancer!, January 23, 2006

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vladimir yelbaev (moscow, russia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Denon AVR-1906 7 Channels Home Theater A/V Receiver (Electronics)

After you've obligatory discarded manual's usual messy setup blah-blah and diagrams, time to welcome the true boons that in this machine are:
1. Real 24-bar adjustable level on front speakers.
2. Same freedom of input source sensitivity adjustment.
3. No meaningless and nasal "special cinema modes" - and hence, well-controlled well-behaved DSP and generally unclustered DD/DTS decoder.
4. Choice of 5 to 7-channel stereo which is exactly the mode to call for anyway anytime.
5. Last not least, Denon's audiophile grade, heavy duty transformer which only prooves the industry's 10-year long infatuation with toroidal design a fad, to say least.
4. Mundane bass/treble - entailing wider and natural curve unlike no naggy 7-way graphic equalizer.
5. Mechanical switchbutton on mains PLUS standby one.
That takes care of the sheer sound quality and dismisses whatever speculation about "digital chip technology limitations" and "quantization errors" - to justify analog hi-end. In passing this Denon does credit to brands' very singular studio presence (being confirmed pro's N1 last year for sturdiness and service-free reliability) as well as literally bogging technicality. Luckily, the latter never cloggs the control domain - on the contrary, controls are piece of cake in use and logical as anything. User is strongly recommended to leave delays and room size alone (i.e. at minimal readings) and select all speakers as LARGE, no matter what. That'll furnish subwoofer with CORRECT frequencies (and depress the wrong) opening up for widerange vibrant and transparent sound quality that's immediately reminiscent of studio Denons. Speakers to select - anything receptive to the same (strongly suggest ProAc's as most tube-tuned I ever encountered)... What's not so good? Smallish caps in power supply which in no way justify the 80 watt per channel rating (told you to discard manual, haven't I?). Output stage could be larger, too (were it descreete - I didn't notice). No phono input - though no fault of Denon's, this. Still under 12 kg net weight - as BCAC factor (Buyer's Critical Appreciation Criteria) starts from 16 upward. 7 channels are okay for even 5-channel encoded program, but in real life it's the width of audioband that counts - and here, the less channels we have, the wider audioband gets. Splitting everything in tiny portions will stay the ploy for industry for quite some time, and consumer should know better that playing in. Me, I gave up balancing the rear surround to center channel, and ended up leaving off RS altogether. The set understands this move well, offering number of RS mixing options. Oh, and I was forgetting: if your system's cabling direction and mains plug phasing are correct (reverse those that are not), you'll get fantastic quality on Audio Direct mode.