I dont think putting the SW level at -12 does anything becouse i tried it and it didnt do anything. It might be my speakers i have mini-monitors.

For those who have bass problem, try set your front speaker to LARGE and turn the SUB off. This will probably give your L/R speaker more bass.
This AV receiver it give you everything except a AC3 decoder. If you have a DVD player with AC3 decoder then this is what you need to get good HT effect and decent stereo music. The price and performance speak for itself.

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I made side by side comparison between the Denon AVR2400 and the Yamaha 793. To my surprise, the difference is quite obvious. Denon produces bright clean
sound in the full band, but the base is slightly in adequete. Yamaha does a
great job in the low band with the base extension on, but the high band is not
very clean. I played various music, and my personal conclusion is Yamaha definitely the better one for movies and heavy rok. On the contrary, Denon does
much better in soft music.

Is anybody aware of a good place for mail order a Denon AVR 2400?

For those who think the reciever doesn't have a good bass level, then I got a question for you: Do you own a subwoofer? if not, did you bring the subwoofer level down to -12? What's the frequency response of your speakers? Denon recievers are factory designed to work with a subwoofer, so if you don't own one, you should take the sw level to the bottom so that it enhances the bass in the speakers. Try that.

The Denon hometheater line of receivers in this price range is far superior to it competition(ie Yamaha, Onkyo, HK, Marantz). The 2400 is a great receiver forthe price. I'm considering upgrading to the new 2700 coming out this month, which has a built in Dolby Digital Decoder. If you want a smooth, natural sounding solid HT receiver go with the Denon 2400.

Saludos!!!!! About the bass problem (not the ale wich by the way its very good) I recently read the review on Home Theater mag about the 1400, wich is very similar to the 2400 you're right (off course you own it ) it doesn't have that feature the sub output its just that an output. So turning the sub level down if you don't have a sub won't do anything. If you do I recomend using the internal crossover on the sub that way you get a better integration of both and at the same time taking some load off your 2400 so it can play louder and more dinamically. Hope that helpede. ADIOS AMIGOS!!! Miguel

I bought this unit before 97' Christmast and I am considering an update to may be a Denon AVR5600. The unit sounds fine in movies in general but musically it sounds a little bright (the brightness could come from the cd player or the NHT speakers too in which I have not yet been able to pinpoint). The rest of my system consists of the Denon 1015 CD player, NHT VT-2/VS2A/HDP2 and Energy ES12 sub for the complete surround sound system and I'm using Kimber PBJ for interconnect and Monster Z-series for speaker cable.

i was wrong about the bass. For those of you who want thx like head shaking bass, then get a subwoofer, they are built for that.

ok guys, I think i solved the bass problem. In think the avr2400 has a built in crossover of 80hz (which by the way is a THX standard) which means the rest of your bass goes to the SW. I guess buying 28hz speakers wasnt such a smart idea, because the setting cannot be changed.For those who dont believe me test Independence day or event horizon´s explotions with and without subwoofer on this reciever.
the rest sounds O.K.

If it wasn´t for that I would give it a perfect 5.

I don't think it does anything by setting SW to -12dB either. I have a set ofSoundDynamics speakers, with Sound Dynamics 300ti in the front.