From bramblewolf

[ssurgul]

I need it.  Period.  My tech-geek overload circuit just burned out, hence, it's a must-have.

http://www.crutchfield.com/S-Nt8BeB5dkQQ/cgi-bin/ProdView.asp?g=10420&id=essential_info&i=033AV5805B

Comments

[dinosnake.livejournal.com]

Don't buy it. SERIOUSLY.

I was a dealer for Denon. I still might have the ability to buy it wholesale for you. If you Really want it and have the funds I can see what I can do.

[ssurgul.livejournal.com]

Oh, there's no 'actual' worry about me purchasing it. I'm still employed in retail, not IT, so my buying power is extraordinarily limited at this stage. At some point, once fully reemployed back in a market segment where I'm making more than 6 figures a year, I'll happily drop a heap-ton into something silly like that. But for now, BJ and I just have content myself on the wage-slave wage I make.

But thanks muchly for the notion of getting it wholesale.

Your warning seems to smack of other things, too, as in perhaps it's a pile of shit in a pretty package. Is this the case?

[dinosnake.livejournal.com]

Heh, a little. But not much. Denon's FM stage is just the smallest touch unsensitive, but really its the output stages. The Denons sound fine - very open, with an airy top and a decent midrange - but from the lower midrange and down to the bass the amp stage suffers from a general lack of maximum output current. So it sounds very airy, with excellent volume on the high power goods, but not "powerful", that is, not with a rock-solid bottom octave foundation. Deep bass response is generally a touch weak from the lack of absolute maximum current.

If your speakers work well with this type of voltage swing amp versus a high current swing style amp then a Denon is simply awesome. In other words they don't drive hard, reactive loads very well. Good volume on such a load but again will lack, I feel, a solid bottom octave foundation. In that case, in receivers, an H/K, Onkyo Integra or Marantz will do the best job with their higher output currents. H/K's being a touch dark, Onkyo being a touch grainy, while Marantz IMHO being the best of all worlds. But of course those are the family sounds of each manufacturer, and they generally stay within their family class.

[ssurgul.livejournal.com]

*grins* Well, unfortunately, based on that argument alone, you've just sold me on Denon for all time, then. I'm not as 'needy' for a deafening <1000Hz range as some of the kiddies driving around with 'only' bass exuding from their car. I'm actually much more in tune with the midrange in speaker response. I like to actually hear it all, and I've found over the years that a solid, high resolution midrange series with a bit of very low and very high chopped off actually sounds like auditory gold to me.

If it helps, what I'm driving right now is a pair of Energy 2.2 bookshelf speakers, and a matched center (though I can't recall the model for the life of me). And when I had it in the 5.0 surround (still don't have a subwoofer) I was just STUNNED at the audio clarity and resolution. For such tiny speakers they have a better sound than nearly all the tower speakers I've heard over the years save, possibly, for the very high end Infiniti's I'd heard many years ago.

[dinosnake.livejournal.com]

Oh, and of course you are welcome about the offer. :)

Makes me wonder. I probably could earn a fortune working "true" IT but since I dont...I don't :D But a lot of people tell me I do have the skills, as today's LJ update attests, but I just don't want to get into IT full time job-wise.

[bramblewolf.livejournal.com]

WHy not!? ITS ONLY 6K!!