Excellent sound quality

Graphical interface, complexity

All in all, I love it. It sounds great when playing music; it sounds great when watching movies. It has tons of inputs and outputs. It has plenty of surround modes (without burdening me with the overabundance of modes found in some recievers).

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Inputs for everything. Music and TV sound amazingly clear. Looks great. Remote is great! (If you don't like it, just sit down for 10 min. with the manual. once configured, amazing!)

Could use a little more power, but I guess you could just upgrade to the next model.

I have been using this reciever for TV, and music. I love it! The remote is great once you have it figured out (which wasn't that hard!) Nice clear smooth sound, I have had no problems with a lack of bass, just make sure the front speakers are set to large and the bass setting is set to front and sub. The on screen menu is easy and the setup is simple. Would recomend this to anyone!

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Crystal clear sound with optical inputs

Needs more bass, manual needs more work.

Excellent equipment, worth the $529 I paid for it. Beautiful sound reproduction and no loss in picture quality when you go through the reciever. It is a whole new listening experience for me after I upgraded from a Sony STD311 which I had for the past 5 years.

Great, clean sound. Easy to setup. Plenty of inputs.

I've had this receiver for about a month now and I just love it. This is my first real home theater quality receiver that I've owned. For $590, (from netmarket.com), it was a great deal. The local A/V store wanted $800+tax (no budging either, I tried). My roommates and friends who have come over are all highly impressed as well.

I have the receiver hooked up to 4 Infinity SM-65 speakers for the front and rears, an Infinity SM-Video for center and an Acoustic Reasearch S8-HO subwoofer. They match really well with the receiver, which seems to have no problem driving them.

I have no real qualms about the product and would highly recommend it to anyone as a great "mid-fi" receiver.

Easy setup, good manual, unbelievable sound quality, very solid unit

Remote control not that great

Upgraded from a Pioneer VSX-9500S last week and the difference is unbelievable. Absolutely no background noise or cross channel interference with or without an optical connection. Easy to use, superb with a good DVD. I wish I could afford Denon everything else.

Good, clean looking unit. No gimmick's, just pure clean power.

upgraded remote to Sony touch screen just for convenience of operating everything. ( Great remote for the money )

I just upgraded my front speakers from mission 737's to Paradign studio 80's and this system rocks. The two are a great match. I am hearing things that I have never heard before. I am running all paradign speakers including a PS-1200 down firing sub and the sound from DVD's is completey kick-ass. The AVR-2800 is a awesome piece of eqipment, and I would recomend Denon to anyone. Completely thrilled!!!
Keep up the good work Denon!!

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Great sound, versatility, set up ease, value

somewhat cryptic owners manual, although apparently improved over earlier Denon manuals

After studying reviews here and elsewhere and visiting stores I narrowed my choice to the 2800 for its features for price, Denon reputation for quality sound and construction and versatility for longterm use with future formats. It sounds great with movies, hve not tried it with music yet. The owners manual is 3 rated stars for what it leaves out. However overall it is easy to follow and I found the remote to be better than other reviewers. I bought it for $529 from Bid.com., including warranty. They shipped right away and I had it in a few days. They have been offering two 2800's per day for auction at this great price.

good, clear sound reproduction. On screen display.

truly ugly remote.

This is a great receiver. It has more than enough power to drive my JBL S312's. I do agree that the remote is ugly, but it is still very functional once you get to know it. From the first day I had it programmed to work my tv and dvd player. I really wish it had the option to change the input names. I have a lot of videogame systems and it's difficult to remember that the ps2 is on the cd input, the dreamcast is on vcr2, and the gamecube is on vdp. I'm gonna have to type up a legend just so that friends can figure it out for themselves and stop bothering me when they try to work my system. Is there any receiver out there that allows you to edit the input names? The only thing that gets annoying is when I forget that the input video types must match the video output type. Several times now I've forgotten, and i'll sit there staring at the receiver with my mouth hanging open for about 5 minutes till it dawns on me.

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A lot of features for the money. Pre-outs for front main speakers. DTS support.

Reliability? Build quality.

I use this product for home theatre only. I have it configured so that the audio pre-outs for the front left and right speakers are run directly into the AUX inputs of my Mission Cyrus 2 / PSX combo. This prevents me from having to run speaker wire in parrallel from each amp to my main speakers. I then set the volume on the main speakers using the level utility on the AVR. This is quite easy and only takes a second. Originally I was going to replace my Cyrus 2 / PSX with an AV receiver but none of the ones that I auditioned sounded even close, in two channel stereo, to the Cyrus gear, hence my configuration as above. Over all in two channel stereo the AVR performed rather poorly. It sounded congested in the mid, loose in the base and veiled over all. With home theatre however it performs very well. I didn't want to spend tons of money on an HT system as the sound being reproduced are mostly sound effects made up in a sound room anyway. Take for example the movie Mouse Hunt. I read a review where the author stated how realistic the sounds of the mice scampering were. Then I saw the making of the film and those sounds the reviewer were claiming were realistic were really just a guy using his fingers on paper to simulate the sounds! LOL. So as you can see what I was looking for were features, such as DTS support, and overall value for the money. I have to add that DTS on this unit sounds much better than Dolby Digital. One feature that is lacking are co-axial digital inputs. The unit has only one. As far as reliability is concerned, I did have a problem with it going into protection mode for no apparent reason. I replaced all of my speaker wire and moved it to a more ventilated area and things have been OK since. It still worries me though. Overall I am happy with this unit and would recommend it.

Equipment used with this review.
Arcam Alpha 6 CD player
Mission Cyrus 2 / PSX amplifier
Mission 753 front speakers
Paradigm C120 centre channel
Tannoy M1 rear speakers
Toshiba SD2100 DVD player
Vandenhul and Audioquest cables

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Lots of features/functions per $; quiet; simple to use; more than enough power

Selecting functions (preset stations, input source) could be made a little easier, but this is minor.

My family has been using this unit for about a year now and we've had no problems or complaints. For us it was a trade-off of $ to simplicity, function, and space. Setup was pretty straight forward, and as far as the remote, just give to the nearest 13 yr old to program (we rarely use the remote but it seems fine, and yes, the remote cover/door is cheezy).

It is a very quiet unit - no hum or other noise. It has many features we'll probably never use but we do like the 5-channel stereo and the fact that you can "balance" each speaker to compensate for speaker efficiencies. Haven't yet got a subwoofer (I am looking for suggestions of a good value unit) hooked up to it.

Overall performance is very good. The sound is great. I've read reviews where the unit overheats but we haven't experienced that problem, even when it plays at a fairly high volume setting for an extended period. (I suppose if you play this or any unit at "punk rock club" volumes it might tend to overheat.) It is warm however. We mistakenly left the unit on and in the closed entertainment center overnite -- it was very warm the next morning but it didn't seem to hurt it.

Lastly, an important factor in the purchase decision was ease of use. It is a unit that those not mechanically/electronically inclined (i.e. spouse) can easily use.

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replaced 15 yr old NAD. Looked at NAD, Onyko, Adcom, and others < $1000.