I have risen to replace this device to my previous system. I do not know how old my old fivefold DVD AC 5.1 Complete system from Panasonic is now, but it's old. At least 15 years I would tap times. Quite apart from that there is not really sound much hergibt course no longer on the cutting edge. No HDMI connections, no networking capabilities, not even more DVDs has read the instrument, so much had to be something new, especially since my old tube TV has now been replaced by a Philips 6007er. He has a top image, and because I am a big movie buff has to, of course, a corresponding sound system here.
The X2000 delivers everything I need: many HDMI channels, network features, high Verarbeitunsqualität, very good sound, a very good remote control, I am very enthusiastic about the device after the first few days and would like to share my impressions here. Let me mention one on which I think is important or the coolest features in the following. On the whole audio formats, etc. I will not go into detail, all are already so in the product description, but the X2000 can actually everything is currently needed, Dolby True HD, DTS-HD, Dolby Pro Logic IIz, etc. pp.
Workmanship / Connections
The processing of the device can look very sophisticated. When the receiver on the shelf or cabinet is, it makes a pretty impression, although he would still act a little more noble, if the connections would disappear behind a screen. All the buttons on the front I find really necessary since you will almost never need, but if you should have but then once misplaced the remote control you will be thankful that they are there with you even in the case the receiver via app or can control laptop, but more on that later.
The unit has seven HDMI ports. Six of them on the back, one on the front. But even those who still have older devices can rest assured, there are plenty of connectivity for older analog devices that are not yet HDMIfähig. This video shows the more accurate because I do not need these connections, because I can not so much to say. There is an HDMI output, which is quite normal in this price range, and a connector for subwoofer.
If you want to integrate the receiver in a network, you must do so via cable. I guess that this is also still normal in this price range, here I would, however, strongly want a Wi-Fi module. Cables are not really up to date, but vlt. you will find that indeed in the higher-priced models, or it will be standard in one to two years.
The receiver is a 7.1 receiver. Say you can either make a real 7.1 system from it, or but, as I did a 5.1 system in one room and then connect two additional speakers to, eg bedroom or kitchen set up a so-called Second Zone in another room. Since the receiver has two power stages can be played in two zones different sources, such as the living room and in the kitchen BluRay Internet Radio. Or in two rooms the same, which is nice if you have to move between two spaces back and forth a lot.
Each channel is driven by 150 watts and is served above all by two transistors rather than of chips as we know it from cheaper models from other manufacturers.
Setup / calibration
If you connect the receiver for the first time on, one must in principle only connect the TV to the receiver via HDMI and power the receiver will power. Following a one guide on the television through the entire facility, it is said one when you have to connect what speakers, the network is configured, etc. pp.
Using the supplied Audyssey microphone you can then adapt the receiver to the room where it is positioned to an optimal sound experience to Reach.
Here, the receiver can measure up to 8 positions, which I would recommend to measure only the number of listening positions, as are actually needed, since that outcome is worse otherwise.
The whole process takes about 15 minutes and you should maintain peace in the area. Each speaker, including the subwoofer briefly sends some noise and distance, volume and quality are measured by the microphone, and the connection of the receiver, the corresponding values corrected automatically, where you can adjust everything later manually.
I was for example the bass a bit too weak, so I've increased it slightly. Although I find it very strange here, that you can not set directly by remote control the bass, in my very old system was that. But the system here you should probably really once perfectly set and then possible not much fiddle tuned.
Multimedia features
Multimedia is one of the great strengths of the X2000. And there are also predominantly meaningful and positive Multimediafuntkionen. You know what I mean by television, who in some cases much Mutlimediaschnickschnack to you but 99% not used often one uses even in 3D TVs 3D function rarely. Of course, there is something at the X2000 also (for example, very few people are probably their photos to Flickr via the receiver on the TV Show) but for me personally is the most very meaningful and useful. The most important multimedia features for me are:
- Internet Radio: For me very nicely because I here can not hear my favorite radio station from my home in Göttingen. Previously, I had to connect everything and connect and start and then go over and went times, did not say very stupid and complicated getting winded via Smartphone app via Bluetooth speaker. Now I just press a button on the remote of the receiver and I hear beautiful Delta Radio. And the display of the receiver is additionally the currently played track appears very cool.
Overall, you can save three favorite radio stations, what you should do, because it's very inconvenient to enter them each time again manually.
- Spotify / Last.FM: Last.FM I do not use, but I have a premium account with Spotify. After having betrayed the receiver's user data, his Spotify account you can then make use of means of receivers. While this is not nearly as comfortable as the PC or via a smartphone app but you can very easily reproduce its playlists, if you do not have hundreds of them. This works very well and smoothly and you can also directly from the remote control before the tracks and go back. Simply save the PC his favorite songs in a playlist and then play by receiver if necessary even without a PC.
- Airplay: In iTunes you can easily select the Denon as an output device and is already running the music from the PC iTunes plays through the speakers of the receiver. Exactly how it works with iPhone or iPad. I had the problem that it went straight up the receiver and then no more, the AirPlay icon in iTunes simply did not show up again. I then googled a bit and came across the man pages of Denon and after I did everything what was there, the Airplay worked again. Every now and then sometimes it chops, which I find odd because playback of Internet Radio works without any problems.
- DLNA / media server. Apple Airplay, all others have DLNA as standard. In principle, DLNA is the same can. Music playback from PC also works very well, too, but unfortunately it was not yet possible to date the media server Movies from the computer directly via streaming playback Photo playback via the receiver on the TV. If I find out yet how or whether this will work, I'm really pleased all around with this receiver.
Remote
Everyone who has ever had a quality receiver or somebody knows the one had certainly knows these huge remotes with dozens of buttons where no one knows which button is for what. My parents have a really expensive, now have come even in the years Yamaha receiver. I am actually very technologically adept, but with this remote control I never got really clear. Loud / quiet went there. Sometimes.
By contrast, the remote control is the Denon its current device attaches an absolute boon. There are not really many keys, everything is very straightforward, functional and above all very intuitive. Each button does exactly what it should. You can easily control the two zones, you can quickly control each input, you can easily access their favorite radio station, you can make loud and soft, easily switch between the various sound modes and has the usual buttons to control through menus. That's essentially. No unnecessary whistles and whistles, all very well manageable. The keyboard is large, but not huge and makes visually what her. Compared with the previous model, the material was improved. It is now matt and one sees no more fingerprints. Especially in regard to the multimedia functions is worth a good, usable remote gold.
Smartphoneapp / Web
Nowadays, there are an app for everything, including the Denon AVR X2000. With this app you can easily control the receiver using a smartphone. Although most functions can better serve directly by remote control, but just a lot of multimedia features are more comfortable adjustable via App.
Very nice is also the web interface. In the setup of the receiver may be under network settings look the IP address of the receiver has. If you give this IP then the Web browser can be the receiver for a per Browser control, but above all you can complete every detail that you can configure the receiver (and if you want you can configure a lot) set via browser. This is of course a lot more comfortable than using the keypad where you have to say that the OSD (On Screen Display) was designed on the receiver still relatively chic and very clear. But with keyboard and mouse go naturally still more convenient
Sound
Of course, all the great Feaatures useless if the receiver would not have a good, if not outstanding sound. Here is an objective assessment for the average Joe user then again, of course difficult, as the sound quality of course is highly dependent on the speaker and I can not say as Otto normal users in sound quality, what proportion of the sound have the speakers and what the receiver, at least not until to the smallest detail.
In my case, the receiver is as already mentioned on a Philips 6007 and as a speaker I use a 5.1 speaker system from Boston Acoustics, the A2310 HTS. The speakers have exactly 150 watts, which is ideally suited to the performance of the amplifier, which uses each channel with a maximum of 150 watts.
-Musik-
Konzertblurays are always very good to judge the sound quality in the music, as they provide a optmierten 5.1 sound, while most normal CD or MP3 Downloads yes are still stereo.
A BluRay on which one can very well judge the sound quality is such as Celine Dion Live in Las Vegas. One may of Celine Dion and her music so keep what you like, her voice is outstanding in any case and this concert recording emphasizes the whole thing again. Right in the first piece you can hear at the beginning of a shatter glass. This sounds so absolutely crystal clear, as if the glass break down next to you. Even the applause previously created a spatial atmosphere and immediately ensures mood. In Dion's voice one hears every nuance, every vibrate slightly, as if we were also sitting in the concert. The bass as it was adapted from the calibration system creates a pleasant atmosphere. Not too bulky, not too pervasive, none too gently, very atmospheric. If you have ignored not only the voice but also to the instruments to be able to hear almost feel where they are on stage. They are clearly identified and the applause at the end of the songs is not an impenetrable uniformity but is clear and differentiated.
Also a vocal prodigy is Adele. Live at Royal Albert Hall dating back to 2011 is a 90 minute live recording of her performance there. Here I can really only advise the 20 spending for the BluRay, just with this great receiver. Also Adele's voice is crystal clear. Wen she sings ballads she sounds also often very emotional and vulnerable, even here there create receivers and speakers each vibrate and tremble of votes Good map.
In a very different direction the BluRay goes by Tiesto In Concert in the director's cut. Here increasingly wirds electrically, the DJ sound is a completely different direction than the previous two musicians. Here is a completely different soundscape available and Denonreceiver also manages to produce these. Again, the bass is very good and to the point. Not too oppressive and too bold but always present and provides again for an entirely different atmosphere. The pressure to you need to make a good electrical Concert capture is for the X2000 no problem, even though I have the bass then turned up a little here. Overall, it's just there in the concert.
Ultimately, even convinced the radio sound fully. I listen Delta Radio webstreamed, the transmission quality is not with 128kps MP3 really high. The X2000 has a Compressed Audio Restorer. This is the quality of data-reduced material as the MP3 codec so happens to be the case is improved. I do not know how it works, but it seems to work. The sound is very good. I do not know whether you know this, many radio stations and plants can not, but some plants produce a radio sound that simply feels only pleasant, good atmosphere. Not to be clear with not too many highs, but overall just very harmonious. Most of the tracks that are played on the radio have high dynamic range, but even if you as a listen, it makes a good picture.
-Film-
Ultimately, this is indeed a home theater receiver, so the surround and the dynamic performance in the film operation are critical. Again, I am again not an expert, but one has so his favorite movies or scenes in which you are particularly interested in a good sound. Previously to DVD times that were with me Pearl Harbour. When the planes are flown one could make the Dolby Surround capabilities of its system impressively demonstrated, then that was certainly something special. BluRay I have the film not, I would have him by now even the sound wegens. Exemplary I would like to highlight Avatar, Dredd and Skyfall here.
Avatar is through and through a film that shines on the technical side, as well as the tone range. Especially during the Battle of the tree at the end it comes down to business. Here, the X2000 can fully exploit its strengths. The many surround effects are always exactly as they are and everything is certain spaces. Even go in the fray trifles such steps not. The receiver provides here a good basis for the fray and effects and allows the ear but any time out to listen peculiarities.
Dredd is a film which is just about perfect for surround effects. Those who know the 2012 version still nciht should they look much much much better than the version with Stallone. The scene takes place over long distances in a high-rise building from where the two Dredds must make their way to the top. Through this cramped spatial scenery abounds at every corner of surround effects and this sets the receiver to wonderful. The permanent-threatening, cramped atmosphere is very well conveyed by the Tonffekte and you feel like an insider to it live.
In Skyfall is specifically single out the opening sequence. Again, there is constantly a high Tondynamik to business. The Oscar winner for Best Sound in 2013 should represent inherently a good reference. In all the films is that I preferred the original watch and my old system just had to separate clear and understandable from the rest of the action language in action sequences problems. When X2000 no problem.
Ultimately I would like to pick out football. At Sky one has the possibility to disable the commentator, whereby the stadium atmosphere can impressively depict sonically. If you then should turning up a little you feel ideally as if you were sitting right in the stadium, and so it is with this receiver. The stadium sound is not a mishmash that just sounds loud and blurring, but to an atmospheric soundscape that can immediately arise stadium atmosphere.
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CONCLUSION
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So, I wrote a lot about this receiver and I could write much more, because there are still many aspects that Dan could address, such as the excellent video characteristics of the receiver, which can scale up input signals to 4K, etc., etc.. But I want to leave with only half a novel this time. How has perhaps read out, I am very impressed by the receiver, even if he has a few small weaknesses that could be improved.
As example would be the wired network, here I would like to see a wireless adapter, factory. I think you can buy more wireless adapters, but beautiful it would be if it were integrated directly. The Airplay function has so many times made me worse and DLNA have I, at least filmmmäßig also not as hinbekommen as I imagine it in theory. Although I do not know if my idea really that much to do with practice. That you can connect an iPod via USB may be very useful in practice, you probably rarely use this feature and access rather directly via Airplay. The control at the external services like Spotify could be more comfortable.
Do I really want that one can regulate the bass remote control by pressing a button, I do not know yet. It's me still too much to expect from my old system that you can, but I think if everything is set correctly, you do not so much around the desire to turn it.
With what we already had in the numerous positive aspects. An Front Front ester is of course the sound of doing very good in all respects. Both music is very well done, even when silent Vocal pieces makes the X2000 a good figure, as well as MP3s that are very well improved. Even when filming the receiver for a good atmosphere makes, has no problem with high dynamics and the surround mode you can locate all the sounds accurately. Here you really feel in the movies sitting at home.
The whole is the result of a good establishment, by a calibration of the receiver in the room where he stands is completed. This is very simple and easily feasible for every amateur.
The multimedia features are great, just the Internet Radio feature I use almost daily.
All in all, high-quality receiver on the amount of time, with many connections and many mostly useful features. Not too cluttered, is set to Quality, 150 watts per channel, and each channel is controlled by two transistors. The sound is very good and atmospheric, even at low volume and sets course again when you turn a little. Outstanding is the remote control that clearly brings together only the most important functions, everything else you can, if you want even adjust easily to the computer via a web browser.
Satisfies both my home theater as well as my musical claims of X2000 fully. He gives me multiple connectivity options (7 HDMI ports) and I can adjust it perfectly on my räulimlichen circumstances. From me there is therefore a clear recommendation!
