Denon AVR-787 7.1-Channel Home Theater Receiver

by Denon

Product Details

• Item Weight: 30 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 31 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B000HA85OQ
• Item model number: AVR787
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #153,443 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Power up your home theater with the Denon AVR-787 surround sound receiver, which offers seven discrete amplifier channels (85 watts apiece, for 595 watts of total power). This includes for the surround back channel speakers to give you more clearly defined sound localization at the rear for 6.1-channel surround sources such as DTS-ES Discrete 6.1/Matrix 6.1/NEO:6 and Dolby Digital EX. The power amp circuits have been designed to reproduce exceptionally high sound quality with a wide frequency response from 10 Hz to 100 kHz. Denon's multi-room entertainment system feature lets you select different audio sources for listening in different rooms, and the AVR-787 offers two zones.

The AVR-787 is XM Radio ready (optional XM tuner required) and offers XM-HD surround sound. It's also compatible with Denon's ASD-1R control dock for iPods. It features a 56-station AM/FM/XM random preset memory tuning. For video connections, this receiver offers three sets of component video inputs that maintain a flat response up to 100 MHz to ensure sharp video quality, as well as three sets of S-Video switching and a front composite video input. It also offers a video up/down conversion function (composite to/from S-Video; composite to S-Video/component).

With Denon's Auto Setup feature, you can confirm speaker phase, assess the size of all your speakers, measure speaker-to-listener distances, and balance speaker levels. With the included DM-S205 microphone placed in your favorite listening position, Auto Setup uses a test tone generator and proprietary programming to precisely balance speaker levels and fine-tune the delay settings for each speaker. The result is optimized system performance for your specific home theater room.

You can customize the performance of this receiver to suit your home theater and enhance operating ease. Adjustments are easy to make via a dialog format on the fluorescent display on the front panel, and these customized settings are then stored, for each source input and surround mode, in a personal memory setting. Put yourself in the middle of your favorite concert hall and music environments with Denon's DSP acoustic environment simulation modes, which include jazz club, rock arena, video game, virtual surround, and mono movie. Other features include:

• Surround playback formats: DTS 96/24 decoding for DVD video; DTS-ES 6.1 and Matrix 6.1; DTS NEO:6; Dolby Digital EX; Dolby Pro Logic IIx; Neural Surround
• Denon's 7 Channel Stereo mode transforms 2-channel sources (such as CD, tape, stereo radio) into surround sound, free of delay effects and unnatural artifacts, from all 7 speakers.
• Audio delay function corrects slight lags between sound and picture that can occur when a video signal is processed.
• 8-channel external inputs
• Variable subwoofer crossover switching (40/60/80/90/100/110/120/150/200/250 Hz)
• Night mode
• Glow key remote control
• Power transformer for high power, twin drive rectifier, and large aluminum extruded heatsink

Cinema Equalizer
The sound from movie sources recorded in Dolby Digital, DTS, or other formats emphasizes high-frequency range due to a theater's front speakers being placed behind the movie screen. If this sound is reproduced in the home theater without correction, the high-frequency range is too strong. This Denon receiver's Cinema Equalizer feature corrects these high-frequency components so that the sound is clearer and easier to listen to when using Dolby Digital, Dolby Pro Logic II, Dolby Digital EX and DTS surround modes.

What's in the Box
Receiver, power cord, remote control (with batteries), DM-S205 Auto Setup microphone, printed operating instructions

Product Description

Denon AVR787 Home Theater Receiver

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great performance for a reasonable price, July 9, 2007

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Charles E. Brown "Charles E. Brown" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Denon AVR-787 7.1-Channel Home Theater Receiver (Electronics)

I couldn't be more pleased with this purchase. But a little planning is advisable.

I ordered this unit on July 5th and received it on July 6th with overnight ordering using Amazon Prime. The additional shipping cost with Prime was only $1.99.

Right after I ordered it, I went on to the Denon site and decided to start to read the owner's manual. It was quite an education. Before you attempt to install the unit, make sure you study the wiring diagrams and the setup instructions in the first few pages of the manual.

That being said, plan on about $300 in additional costs buying the proper cabling. For maximum results, you need 3 sets of Video Composite cables (One from your television/DBS box, one from your DVD player, and from this unit to the video inputs on your television. Also plan on 2 optical cables for sound: one from the television DBS box and one from the DVD player.

Provided you did your homework in advance, and have the proper cables, the installation took me about 60 minutes or so. I used the provided microphone to do the automatic speaker balancing. However, after that, I did a little additional tweaking for my own taste.

If you set the TV/DBS box as Composite 2 and the DVD player as Composite 1 the default settings take over and there is little else to do in installation.

Past that, the sound is great and everything seems to be working flawlessly. I am going to get the iPod dock next.

Great performance at a reasonable price.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Very Happy, February 11, 2008

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Mark C. Hamer (Batesville, In USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Denon AVR-787 7.1-Channel Home Theater Receiver (Electronics)

So many choices from so many locations. I started thinking cheaper was better, WRONG! Cheaper is just cheap. I bought a 5.1 Yamaha speaker set. Then thought I'd buy a low cost system available from my local Wal Mart. The thinking was to scrap the receivers speakers & use the Yamaha set. Got home, read the reviews on the receiver and took that unit back. Returned home & did a little more reading. Read the 2 outstanding reviews here and made the purchase. This unit is very nice and I'm thrilled with it. Yes the owners manual can be difficult to decipher and if you've never ran a patch cable in your life... get some help from someone who has or pay the fee to have a pro do it. I was able to save a little on the cables by shopping around. I will buy Denon again. Heres an interesting observation that was made by my wife. This receiver on it's own actually outweighs the total weight of the returned system, box, speakers, cables and receiver.

8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great AV Receiver Value, April 12, 2007

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DigitalMan "DMAN" (Denver, CO) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Denon AVR-787 7.1-Channel Home Theater Receiver (Electronics)

I am a huge Denon fan. I own two high end Denon's (One I have had for 15 years and it is still rock solid). I bought this one for my inlaws (in their 70's) because I wanted a quality value product. Denon's value products are really just scaled down versions of their high end stuff. You cannot go wrong with this unit. It set up quickly and easily and performs flawlessly.