True wired is best but WIFI is more convenient. No wires running
anyware. No messes. Now I know you may not care nor do I. But there are
those that do. The less and less wires the better. Look how home theater
geeks even joke about what they call the WAF or the Wife axeptency
factor. Cause it's assumed chicks like things all pretty so they don't
want wires everyware.
On 5/2/2018 5:30 AM, Dane Trethowan wrote:
Hi!
Obviously I've not had a chance to get this amp going yet so I can
only tell you what I've observed from glancing at the unit, I hope to
have a pair of eyeballs tomorrow to guide me through the setup process.
Anyway the AVRX3400h is of the same build as the AVR2113.
Cosmetically on the front they look a little different, on the AVR2113
the front USB port, HDMI port and audio/video RCA in jacks were found
under a removable trapdoor.
In this model the audio/video RCA jacks have been removed and the USB
and HDMI ports on the front - along with the Microphone and Headphone
socket - are clearly visible.
The Microphone's purpose is for test measurements so the system can
work out how best to adjust the speakers and their acoustic
characteristics to your room and a microphone along with stand comes
with the unit.
Front controls are very simple, a row of 10 below the display, a
source selection dial on the left and a volume control on the right.
On the rear its a different story, connections and sockets all over
the place though I'm glad to see that Denon have chosen to place all
the speaker terminals - 14 in all - in one long row across the near
bottom, they're out of the way and easy to get to not to mention wire up.
There are dozens of RCA'S about the place, two of those are digital
inputs, 2 are preamp outputs, many will befor composet and component
video inputs and outputs, two will be a fono input whilst the others
will be analogue inputs for older equipment, the second zone and so on.
The 10 HDMI ports run across the near top rear panel, 8 in and 2 out.
The difference here over the older model is the addition of the "Audio
Return" channel for the HDMI ports.
In the past I had to run two cables to my Television, a HDMI cable
from the HDMI out of the receiver - to feed the TV with the video from
other sources - and a toslink audio cable to take audio from the
Television into the amplifier.
Now I only need that one output cable which - as well as feed the
video output from the Amp to the Television - will return the audio
from the Television to the receiver so I may here it, looking forward
to trying that out.
Unlike the AVR2113 the AVRX3400H has an AM tuner along with the FM, FM
was very good on the 2113 so I doubt whether I'll be disappointed with
the AVRX3400H. I doubt the AM section will be much chop and I don't
think I'll even bother wiring up the loop antenna given I already have
a DAB/FM/AM tuner ready and waiting to plug into the system through
one of the digital inputs - the AVRX3400H has 4 of those -.
If home automation is your thing then it seems Denon have put quite a
bit of thought into this with the now all too familiar RS232 serial
port making an appearance for full programming and control of the
receivers functions, 12 volt triggering for compatibility etc.
Now to something I don't understand, why have Denon even bothered with
Wi-Fi connectivity? I understand that not everyone has the ability to
wire directly to Lan but frankly the two Wi-Fi antenna mounted on
either side of the receiver just get in the way and I can't see any
way of removing those antenna, if there were a way then I'd certainly
be onto it as I prefer to hard wire.
The AVRX3400H can connect to either the 2.4GHZ or 5.0GHZ bands in a
variety of ways so I'm going to take some time to read through the not
so well written manual tonight to find out all about that.
So yep I'm inpatient for tomorrow to come to get this thing going.
I really didn't want to upgrade to the AVRX3400H at this point.
Unfortunately the AVR2113 died so I'm now making arrangements to have
that looked at. I had planned on an upgrade to an AVRX3400H or
whatever was available around Christmas Time or early next years but
you know what they say, the best laid plans are the ones to ruin.
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