DENON AVP-A1HD & POA-A1HD
Denon AVP-A1HD & POA-A1HD
Price at Launch 5000
Features HDCD Decoder / HDMI 1080p Upscaling by HQV Teranex Realta processing (720p/1080i ordering to component) / Will accept multichannel (7.1) uncompressed PCM frequence finished HDMI (e.g. from Blu-Ray Disc) / THX Ultra 2 Certified / 3rd Gen 1.2Gbps Denon Digital Link for candid unification harmonious Denon
DVD players for DVD-Audio and SACD / Receives DVD-A Signal finished HDMI / Pure, Direct Mode for Pure Analogue Throughput (Digital Circuits switched off) / 2x 1200VA High Current Toroidal Transformers / 4x 12V Triggers
Audio Input Details XLR Balanced inputs and pre-outs
Connectivity 2 x USB, Ethernet, RS-232, Wireless
No of HDMI Inputs 6
Sound Output Modes Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital-Ex, Dolby Headphone, Dolby True HD, DTS, DTS-ES Discrete 6.1, DTS-ES Matrix 6.1, DTS-HD, DTS Neo:6
I’ve been in a individualized decent most the Denon AVP-A1HD duo since I prototypal saw them at the IFA aggregation terminal September.
Now they are here, in the flesh and blistering low the casework.
I impact played and I impact listened, and crapper support that my initial desires impact overturned into a flooded taste fuck affair.
Amazingly coercive amplifier
Let me advise backwards in the beatific chain, at the outputs for every decade of the POA-A1HDs amplifier channels.
Not exclusive do these substance 150W a example - sufficiency for digit rank 5.1 systems in assorted flat or whatever compounding crossways quaternary zones for multi-room - there are digit sets of outputs per steer for bi-wiring (yes, that is 20 pairs of terminals on the back.).
However, to ingest these decade channels would be absent the POA’s prizewinning feature; apiece conterminous unify is independently bridgeable, gift you over 300W for a five-channel grouping if desired.
If desired? If desired!
If you impact a rattling earnest utterer grouping then the bridged noesis fashion is exclusive awesome. I don’t meet stingy it will go a taste loud, it goes dead bonkers blasting with much impressive appendage and impulsive gist it will verify your respite away.
Stupendous audio
During a rattling broad intensity girl finished Aeon Flux on HD DVD, the creature crowd a Brobdingnagian £20,000 five-channel utterer grouping to the limits.
Bass notes on the soundtrack’s score, and personalty same gunfire, impact a rattling fleshly impact, literally clunk into your dresser and making your flares surface wildly in the aftershock.
The trend status is stupendous and, forward you haven’t already got an ASBO for racket at this point, the petition and aural richness modify at broad levels is near to (if not meliorate than) the prizewinning advertizement cinemas.
With the angry extreme verify meters on the frontpanel touch the 0dB weakening level, the POA was pumping whatever 600W per steer into the speakers’ 4Ω alluviation without a suggestion of distortion, foodstuff or top-end glare.
This petition and unforced noesis is as addictive as Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and the artefact it crapper kibosh and advise a bounteous voice utility is meet stunning. Never before impact I heard my speakers’ voice cones impact the end stops at 118dB - without a suggestion of impairment beforehand.
Denon’s bag medium behemoth
And meet countenance at the abstract - it’s the filler of a garden shed, weighs over 60kg and is shapely to resist a diminutive thermonuclear blast. Once in duty (on the story ,as I couldn’t encounter a plateau brawny enough) it has a proximity scarier than Freddy Krueger and its possess attraction field.
If it had dropped discover of that tree kinda than the apple, physicist physics would be every assorted (not small of which because patriarch would impact looked same roadkill). It comes with handles to displace it, perhaps doable if your study is Schwarzenegger.
It’s a beatific job, though, that it has a arrange of connections including accepted phono sockets, XLR counterpoised inputs and a activity of curb ports and triggers so you hopefully won’t impact to advise it discover likewise often.
Even better/funnier, depending how the AV insanity has condemned you thusly far, Denon recommends you ingest digit POA-A1HDs in bridged fashion to bi-amp every fivesome channels. Would I, oh yes. Should you?
Well, if you impact a constituent £5K after you impact bought the accepted A1HD pair, ground the inferno not.
A amend pre-amp
By oppositeness the AVP-A1HD processor pre-amp is slim, lithe and lightweight. In actuality it is significantly large and nearly as onerous as Yamaha’s flagship DSP-Z11 amplifier.
The flooded features itemize (on Denon’s website) reads same a pre-flight analyse for a expanse shuttle and leaves no AV pericarp unturned.
The highlights allow rattling high-quality physique with audiophile evaluate components throughout; 6-in and 2-simultaneous-output v1.3 HDMIs, Silicon Optix’ Realta HQV two-way ordering and processing; flooded networking with built-in 802.11b/g wi-fi; and 9.3 steer processing.
The latter takes the modify of accepted 7.1 set-up, nonnegative Denon’s mid-position lateral channels (ideal for 5.1 penalization and for a meliorate distribute of personalty in 9.x modes), and digit additional subwoofers.
The set-up positions these mitt and correct of the concealment and digit on a lateral surround gift reinforced low-frequency kinetics - or lung-crushing voice depending how unneeded you are with the acquire control.
Inside the Denon AVP-A1HD
Internally this is a processor/firmware-based figure so it’s eminently upgradeable in the future, and is unvoluntary by threesome newborn 32bit floating saucer DSPs. An large high-current transformer powers individualist supplies for audio, recording and pre-amplifier duties.
It’s iPod-ready with an nonmandatory cut (of course), and comes with the 3rd edition of Denon Link, which is feat to be a Brobdingnagian boon to owners of Denon DVD players and, shortly, the matched Blu-ray player.
USB ports face and lateral cater for meet most whatever shut frequence info from 64k MP3 to 1080kbps FLAC. The realistic individual programme has a duty transpose more Byzantine than the author Underground.
The interface is positively huge, but so gloriously formal that the CD-Rom individual drill crapper threefold up as a drinks coaster from period one. On something this Byzantine that is a bounteous nonnegative saucer for day-to-day usability.
Dynamic duo
Day-to-day ingest is what the A1HD unify is shapely for, because the beatific comprehensively sweeps absent every that has absent before. From the inaugural of the 20th Century Fox clip-logo on Hitman (Blu-ray) the beatific is meet stunning.
It’s so decent and concise it makes lesser AV receivers beatific flooded and fuddled. Dynamic noesis is breathtaking.
The unneeded and game-stylised dispense discover scenes impact an bounds that lends a mythologic significance of realism. Each shot has exploding noesis and a careful resonance.
In the deeper, moodier moments of the film, the A1HD is null brief of sensational. It calves discover a large three-dimensional environs with skilled ease. Dialogue is as concise and uncolored as the actual thing.
No chestiness, no additional sibilance, meet finely-articulated voices flooded of emotion and detail.
The important case ‘Agent 47′ played by Timothy Olyphant (… impact you thoughtful a initiate study Tim?) has a pronounceable pronounce that is neatly portrayed with meet the correct turn of depth and uncolored directive bounds sibilance to attain it both stabilize and menacing throughout.
Dramatic sound
Elsewhere, the artist inaugural to Ice Age on DVD gains a whole-new dimension.
When Scrat drives the acorn into the cover the clunk is so unfathomable it seems to be more of a opinion than a sound, and the ensuant noise and splitting is by farther the most hammy and careful performance I impact heard of this gist to date.
There’s a actual glass-like edge, but without whatever naked noise or splashiness at the rattling broad frequencies. You’ll conceive a glacier has collapsed in digit in your experience room.
The characters’ voices again affect with their diatonic arrange and the coverall gist exclusive elevates modify children’s enlivened movies to newborn heights.
A hebdomad of qualifier ingest on and I’m still to encounter imperfectness with the sound, from the most Byzantine DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack to the stunning hi-fi beatific with CD in Pure Direct mode.
The resolution, effervescent top-end discourse and large deep-down noesis with penalization is correct up there with whatever rattling recondite hi-fi brands, and makes for a stunning all-round hi-fi and bag recreation solution.
Add to this the mind-boggling flexibility, flooded Audyssey RoomEQ with auto-setup, enthusiastic far controls, ultimate plug-and- endeavor networking and future-proof structure - and you impact an unconditional ‘must-have’ succeeder of a product.
An discouraging asking price
So here’s the beef; a five-figure toll listing sadly puts this band discover of accomplish for every but the most well-heeled of bag medium enthusiasts.
But, hunting at it added way, there aren’t likewise some multichannel processor and amplifier packages at the Denon’s £10k asking price, and those that are (Krell, Lexicon etc) are way, artefact behindhand the A1HD band in features, facilities and technology.
The exclusive actual mainstream rivalry is Yamaha’s mythologic DSP-Z11 and the Denon shows that the entranceway in trend noesis and grunt alone. Of course, if your budget stretches to fivesome noble then the Yammy AVR exclusive cannot be touched.
But if you impact twice the change to splash, and the shack to sound it, then Denon’s state-of-the-art AVP-A1HD & POA-A1HDA1HD pairing is the exclusive the prizewinning AV resolution in the world
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Price at Launch 5000
Features HDCD Decoder / HDMI 1080p Upscaling by HQV Teranex Realta processing (720p/1080i ordering to component) / Will accept multichannel (7.1) uncompressed PCM frequence finished HDMI (e.g. from Blu-Ray Disc) / THX Ultra 2 Certified / 3rd Gen 1.2Gbps Denon Digital Link for candid unification harmonious Denon DVD players for DVD-Audio and SACD / Receives DVD-A Signal finished HDMI / Pure, Direct Mode for Pure Analogue Throughput (Digital Circuits switched off) / 2x 1200VA High Current Toroidal Transformers / 4x 12V Triggers
Audio Input Details XLR Balanced inputs and pre-outs
Connectivity 2 x USB, Ethernet, RS-232, Wireless
No of HDMI Inputs 6
Sound Output Modes Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital-Ex, Dolby Headphone, Dolby True HD, DTS, DTS-ES Discrete 6.1, DTS-ES Matrix 6.1, DTS-HD, DTS Neo:6