Upgrading Denon av4500 for the av4700 or av6700

[DodgeTheViper]

Personal opinions like yours are irrelevant.

Audioholics confirmed the same roll off issue with marantz AV pres.

No, they’re not irrelevant. And the fact that this person was caught out is not an opinion. Not many took notice of the so called reviews and there’s probably even less now that its been found out to be flawed.

But anyway, I’m off topic.

 

[Zarf2007]

Link to 550?

It was actually the 850 but the 390/550 and 850 share the same innards apart from amplification/psu types, read through this thread and look at the test results for the 850:

Arcam AVR850 Home Theater AVR Review

Hi When you wrote "CD Direct" improving the DAC performance just checking if you meant "Stereo Direct"? CD direct can be enabled in digital sources to enable this PCM-only processing and bypass format detection circuity (e.g. why when doing testing in REW via digital sources you need to use...

www.audiosciencereview.com

 

[rccarguy2]

t was actually the 850 but the 390/550 and 850 share the same innards apart from amplification/psu types, read through this thread and look at the test results for the 850:

Arcam AVR850 Home Theater AVR Review

Hi When you wrote "CD Direct" improving the DAC performance just checking if you meant "Stereo Direct"? CD direct can be enabled in digital sources to enable this PCM-only processing and bypass format detection circuity (e.g. why when doing testing in REW via digital sources you need to use...

www.audiosciencereview.com

Better but the arcam is still a broke product for such expensive item I would expect no large bug issue.

As for why wasn't avr350 tested again, owners usually send in their own iterm to be bench tested.

 

[rccarguy2]

Hey you now put that £200 sale of the Tag into one of these (the 32 channel version)

Trinnov Altitude 32 AV Cinema Processor

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[BigT]

I recently bought a Arcam 390 for £999 to replace my old Marantz 6003.
Its probably the best thing I have ever purchased.
I have had no issues at all, sure does a few things in a slightly different way, but once you get your head around its fine.
I was initially skeptical, especially around the power output, but again it continues to surpass all expectations.

£999 is a genuine bargain in my opinion

 

[kenshingintoki]

I recently bought a Arcam 390 for £999 to replace my old Marantz 6003.
Its probably the best thing I have ever purchased.
I have had no issues at all, sure does a few things in a slightly different way, but once you get your head around its fine.
I was initially skeptical, especially around the power output, but again it continues to surpass all expectations.

£999 is a genuine bargain in my opinion

Exactly. SQ is in a different stratosphere right?

I know early adopters had some MAJOR issues and bugs but they've all been ironed out now. Issues have raised from numbers changing to noise in the speakers etc. but DIRAC and the SQ from the Arcam really are in that next tier whcih D&M&Yamaha (and tone winner lol) don't really compete with IMO.

I think AVR390 + dedicated amp is better tho cos the AVR390 can struggle with 4ohm speakers if u go at reference or a bit above (but not many ppl do).

 

[BigT]

Exactly. SQ is in a different stratosphere right?

I know early adopters had some MAJOR issues and bugs but they've all been ironed out now. Issues have raised from numbers changing to noise in the speakers etc. but DIRAC and the SQ from the Arcam really are in that next tier whcih D&M&Yamaha (and tone winner lol) don't really compete with IMO.

I think AVR390 + dedicated amp is better tho cos the AVR390 can struggle with 4ohm speakers if u go at reference or a bit above (but not many ppl do).

Yeah totally agree.
I have always had modest but what I considered fairly good equipment, but the I'm rediscovering my CD collection .
If your into switching video sources and upscaling through the amp its not going to be for you. But is its sound quality then its a no brainer.

 

[rccarguy2]

I recently bought a Arcam 390 for £999 to replace my old Marantz 6003.
Its probably the best thing I have ever purchased.
I have had no issues at all, sure does a few things in a slightly different way, but once you get your head around its fine.
I was initially skeptical, especially around the power output, but again it continues to surpass all expectations.

£999 is a genuine bargain in my opinion

Arcam 390 is 90w both channels driven into 4ohm into 8ohm, 81w. Can't find FTC all channels driven.