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Category: Electronics
Brand: Denon
Model: AVR3312CI
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Reviewed by 32 customers, 91% of respondents would recommend this to a friend.
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Denon AVR3312CI Review by Bacci (Brussels, BE)
CONNECTIONS
The rear panel of the AVR-3312 has a good layout, although the speaker terminals on top of each other make it more difficult than needed to get the speaker wire in place, especially when using thick high quality speaker cable, e.g. 2.5mm. Denon should take a leaf out of Onkyo's book about that. Assigning inputs is easy using a comprehensible table, but not all inputs are assignable to all devices, e.g. a Wii connected using component video should be hooked up to the DVR input because analog sound cannot be associated to GAME1/2.
Making the rear surround amp assignable is a very good idea, and that possibility should imho be extended to all but the front L/R amps. How great would it not be to have the possibility of a spouse-friendly front height and wide setup with no rear speakers?
SETUP and PERFORMANCE
Setting up the speakers/amps can be somewhat confusing, with parameters such as Large/Small speaker, LFE / LFE+Main and crossover frequencies all influencing which of the low frequencies are played through either the speakers and/or the subwoofer. Merely going through the setup wizard does not result in the best configuration, be prepared to spend some time getting familiar with the parameters.
After tweaking the system does sound great, there is not a hint of distortion even at loud playback levels. This is a fairly neutral sounding amp, which has my preference over a warmer sounding receiver such as e.g. Yamaha.
FEATURES
The AVR xx12 series are truly "receivers", no matter what media your songs are on (NAS, iPod, Phone, USB stick, cloud, ...) the Denon will fetch and play them. 192/24 FLAC support is a nice feature, although I don't like the way songs in general are displayed on the TV screen with text way too big and artwork too small. As if anyone with a new Denon 7.1 receiver would still hook it up to an old CRT television instead of a LED or plasma HDTV...
There were some issues with Airplay being sluggish, but iOS 5 seems to have resolved it, meaning the problem was on the Apple device end to begin with.
I like that the AVR-3312 remembers the last used DSP mode not only per source, but also per type of signal (PCM, DTS, ...). This is especially handy when using a computer like a Mac Mini as source, so height or wide speakers are automatically turned off for music (stereo) and on for video (Audyssey DSX).
The remote looks and feels like something that would come with a 50$ stereo from the 80's, not what one would expect for a 1000$ state of the art receiver... come on, Denon. Controlling the receiver with it feels snappy and range is okay but not great from angles.
CONCLUSION
Overall I'm pleased with the Denon. This is a great sounding amp packed with features.
EDIT: upgraded rating by one star now the Airplay issues are gone with iOS 5 installed on my iPhone and iPad.
Denon AVR3312CI Review by William Burzlaff "word" (word)
Finally after 10 1/2 years of my great Denon AVR3801, it was time to upgrade to new tech! I went with the Denon AVR 3312CI, and am absolutely blown away. Plenty of power, and every type of decoding you can imagine. Denon continues its amazing build quality, and design as usual. I have not run into any problems whatsoever, and it has been nothing short of amazing in quality with everything I throw at it. The only weakness has nothing to do with the receiver itself, it's the manual. It is very vague in how it lays things out, and describes how to do everything. If you are having a problem, it's only because the darn manual doesn't clearly explain things from time to time. Go search batpigworld and it will go over all in detail aka (plain clear english), and overview on how to set up the receiver if you have any problems. To end things I'll just say this...It's one hell of a piece of hardware, and there isn't any receiver on the market from $800-$1800 that can touch this performance, and quality. Love it.
Denon AVR3312CI Review by Agim Perolli
I struggled for 2 weeks trying to get this thing setup right. Running Audyssey setup was simple enough, though I wanted to tweak the channel imbalances, and the rear channels were set too high relative to the fronts, probably because of my dipolar front speakers confusing the setup algorithm. After tweaking channel levels, I chose to bypass Audyssey on the front channels, as it sounded better without the "corrrection" applied. Then, everyday, it seemed my settings had been reset to the ones that Audyssey had arrived at. Very frustrating. I suspected that the firmware update that I was told was available might fix it. But the firmware update just said "Authenticating..." forever, and never took (and still hasn't -- they evidently have a very slow, distant, low-capacity server serving up those firmware updates).
Finally, I decided to reset the microprocessor (a simple enough step of turning the unit off and on again while holding some buttons down -- clear enough from the manual). I re-ran the Audyssey setup (it came up with better results, probably because I used microphone locations which were all fairly close to the on-axis listening spot) -- still I wanted to bypass it for the front channels, and set the left/right front levels to be identical, and still needed to adjust the front/rear/sub balance to be right. Then the settings were retained, and all has been well since.
The sound of the unit is very good. Clear/clean sound is the hallmark of Denon. Onkyo's sound warmer/darker by comparison, Denon's cooler/brighter. My ears tell me that the Denon is the more accurate of the two. When fed native (or upsampled) content at 96KHz, the sounds is really really good. Interestingly, my Squeezebox feeding it internet radio sounds better than it's on-board internet radio capability -- not sure why, as it should be the other way around. Pandora works well on it, and is a joy to use.
My recommendations: do bypass audyssey for front L/R channels, do use Audyssey Dynamic EQ (a.k.a. advanced "loudness" control that adjusts per he volume level), do change the reference levels if using Audyssey EQ to reduce the amount of loudness control it applies (+10dB seems a good general setting), do NOT use Audyssey Dynamic Volume unless you like the sound of over-compressed music and "everything-the-same-volume" effect -- certainly don't use it for music, and even for theater/tv it seems annoying to me.
Bottom line: don't bother to do anything without first resetting the microprocessor. Then set it up, tweak your settings, and double check them a couple of days later, to make sure they "stuck". After that, enjoy the really good sound and feature set of this receiver.
Oh, and the web GUI is kinda cool too -- you can change settings and source and such from your web browser. Too bad it's menu is also weirdly laid out and klunky -- but it beats nothing, and after a few days, you get used to it (though it still won't make a lot of sense).
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