Denon AVRX-2000

vinniemac

Hi Guys,

I posted this at the end of the receiver clearance section on Friday, but it seems to have slipped through the net today, so apologies for the double post 

Thinking of replacing my receiver as my old one is not really doing the biz with the new Dali Zensors I got from you last week. I see the Denon AVRX2000 is going for £249 on a the Richer UK site and £239 on Amazon / £225 on ebay at the moment. Have you one in stock, or better still an open box or demo model?

Vinnie. 

The Ritz

Mod comment:

I've deleted your other post, just to keep things tidy :-)


Ritz

Richersounds.ie: Kenny

vinniemac wrote: »

Hi Guys,

I posted this at the end of the receiver clearance section on Friday, but it seems to have slipped through the net today, so apologies for the double post 

Thinking of replacing my receiver as my old one is not really doing the biz with the new Dali Zensors I got from you last week. I see the Denon AVRX2000 is going for £249 on a the Richer UK site and £239 on Amazon / £225 on ebay at the moment. Have you one in stock, or better still an open box or demo model?

Vinnie. 

Hi Vinnie.

I have had a check and there is none of the AVRX2000 left in our warehouse and it looks like it maybe finishing up. Here in Belfast we are also totally out of stock on this unit.

We do have the Yamaha RXV675 still in stock but you are jumping up to £299.95
http://www.richersounds.com/product/av-receivers/yamaha/rxv675/yama-rxv675-blk

This would be a much better receiver if you could stretch and would really get the best from the Dali speakers you purchased.

vinniemac

Thanks Kenny - The Yamaha would be great, but out of my reach I'm afraid :-(

vinniemac

As an alternative - is the Marantz NR1604 in the clearance thread still available?

Richersounds.ie: Kenny

vinniemac wrote: »

As an alternative - is the Marantz NR1604 in the clearance thread still available?

Hi Vinnie.

Yes the NR1604 is indeed still available and priced on the other thread at £249.95 (Ex-Display)

vinniemac

Thanks Kenny - I'll get back to you tomorrow on that - just checking out a couple of alternatives.

Vinnie

Richersounds.ie: Kenny

vinniemac wrote: »

Thanks Kenny - I'll get back to you tomorrow on that - just checking out a couple of alternatives.

Vinnie

Hi Vinnie.

No problem at all.

Let me know if you come up with anything else and I'll see what I can do.

vinniemac

Hi Kenny

I've been looking at the Cambridge Audio 351r as an alternative. Do you have one in stock in black?

Richersounds.ie: Kenny

vinniemac wrote: »

Hi Kenny

I've been looking at the Cambridge Audio 351r as an alternative. Do you have one in stock in black?

Hi Vinnie.

At the moment we do not have one of the 351R in stock.

I can get one ordered in from our main warehouse and then have it dispatched to you.

351R is currently priced at £199.95 and delivery would be £12.99.

Let me know what you think.

Richersounds.ie: John

vinniemac wrote: »

Hi Kenny

I've been looking at the Cambridge Audio 351r as an alternative. Do you have one in stock in black?

Vinnie,
just to add to the comments above - we can have one in for Friday for you - its an excellent receiver, not as many bells n whistles as the Denon, but it sounds amazing! Far better amp section than pretty much any sub £300 receiver and is great with music as well..

We can actually do it at £199.95 all in including delivery..

Keep us posted,

ATVB,

John Mc & Crew 

vinniemac

Thanks guys - I'll go ahead with the Azur :-) Do you still have my card details on file from last week?

Vinnie

Richersounds.ie: Kenny

vinniemac wrote: »

Thanks guys - I'll go ahead with the Azur :-) Do you still have my card details on file from last week?

Vinnie

Hi Vinnie.

Seems they made they way to the shredder already.

I'll give you a call with 10 minutes if that suits?

vinniemac

No prob. I'll pm you my number

Richersounds.ie: Kenny

vinniemac wrote: »

No prob. I'll pm you my number

Thanks Vinniemac.

vinniemac

Hoping this came in today as expected. Can you PM me a tracking number when you have it please?

Richersounds.ie: Kenny

vinniemac wrote: »

Hoping this came in today as expected. Can you PM me a tracking number when you have it please?

Hi Vinniemac. 

I put it on our direct ship yesterday for you.

It should be with you on Monday, Tuesday at the latest.

I don't have a tracking number as it went straight from our warehouse rather from the store. I'll make a few calls see if I can get one for you.

vinniemac

Hi guys,

Receiver arrived on Friday evening and I've been giving it a lot of use over the weekend. Big improvement in sound over my old Pioneer, although a little brighter sounding than I'd hoped. I've one problem though. When streaming music from my Apple TV the receiver drops the connection at the end of each track before restarting it once a new track begins. This results in the first 2 or 3 seconds of each track being lost. I emailed Cambridge about this and got the following response this morning. 

" I am afraid that this is an issue of implementation on the digital board of the 351R and is an issue with the Apple TV because it inserts a break in the digital signal between each track rather than only doing so when the signal is stopped. This has not been something we can correct on the 351R.
I am sorry I can't be more help in this instance.
Ed Selley"


I really like the Receiver apart from this. I chose it because of Cambridge prioritising sound quality as it'll mainly be used for music. So just wondering what my options are?


Vinnie

Richersounds.ie: John

vinniemac wrote: »

Hi guys,

Receiver arrived on Friday evening and I've been giving it a lot of use over the weekend. Big improvement in sound over my old Pioneer, although a little brighter sounding than I'd hoped. I've one problem though. When streaming music from my Apple TV the receiver drops the connection at the end of each track before restarting it once a new track begins. This results in the first 2 or 3 seconds of each track being lost. I emailed Cambridge about this and got the following response this morning. 

" I am afraid that this is an issue of implementation on the digital board of the 351R and is an issue with the Apple TV because it inserts a break in the digital signal between each track rather than only doing so when the signal is stopped. This has not been something we can correct on the 351R.
I am sorry I can't be more help in this instance.
Ed Selley"


I really like the Receiver apart from this. I chose it because of Cambridge prioritising sound quality as it'll mainly be used for music. So just wondering what my options are?


Vinnie

Vinnie,

thanks for the Post and great to hear that the 351R is a big improvement over your Pioneer - to be honest the guys at Cambridge normally say that the unit will get better after it has been properly run in and should continue to improve over the first 70 - 100 hours.

On the Apple TV issue unfortunately there is very little that I can do to cure this, depending on what source you music is streaming from you may be able to eliminate the gaps ( ie on iTunes there is an option to crossfade tracks) and most apple devices and pods seem to support gapless playback.

Keep us posted,

ATVB,

John Mc & Crew

vinniemac

Thanks for getting back John.

Enabling cross fade helps for albums and playlists, but not if I'm just picking tracks at random. Unfortunately it's also occurring with playing CDs (on a PS3). I'm really surprised that CA wouldn't address this in the firmware of the machine. I see in a review from last year on the Richer UK site that the 551r exhibits the same problem. For a receiver that's touted as ""designed to "sound first" principles" it's a major flaw IMHO.