Sub £400 Atmos AV amp, new or second hand?
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Going to be setting up a budget Home cinema set up for kids in the garage, have some old B&W VM-1 and M1 and looking to do a 7.1 Atmos set up. Have a budget of £400 for AV amp and was looking at a denon-avr-s760hgb https://www.richersounds.com/denon-avr-s760hgb-bla...
But just wondering if I would be better going second hand at this budget and if so what would you look out for ?
But just wondering if I would be better going second hand at this budget and if so what would you look out for ?
Can't really help other than to say that I went from a high end Yamaha AV amp (admittedly quite old) to a Denon AVC-X4700H and the Denon was a HUGE improvement.
I was really blown away by how much better it was than the Yamaha so I'd say that your suggested Denon option would be a good bet.
In terms of second hand options this is the model I have on ebay currently at £499.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/335767895014?_skw=denon...
I think I paid about £1600 for mine new. Probably massive overkill for what you are looking for though. And you also need a PhD to work out how set it up and use it to its full potential, but that is probably true of all AV stuff.
I was really blown away by how much better it was than the Yamaha so I'd say that your suggested Denon option would be a good bet.
In terms of second hand options this is the model I have on ebay currently at £499.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/335767895014?_skw=denon...
I think I paid about £1600 for mine new. Probably massive overkill for what you are looking for though. And you also need a PhD to work out how set it up and use it to its full potential, but that is probably true of all AV stuff.
In terms of longevity, I've had the Denon AVR 2300 for nearly 7 years now, it works flawlessly, the only issue was the internet radio licensing means I need to pay a small fee to still use it.
https://www.whathifi.com/denon/avr-x2300w/review
https://www.whathifi.com/denon/avr-x2300w/review
TorqueDirty said:
Can't really help other than to say that I went from a high end Yamaha AV amp (admittedly quite old) to a Denon AVC-X4700H and the Denon was a HUGE improvement.
I was really blown away by how much better it was than the Yamaha so I'd say that your suggested Denon option would be a good bet.
Thanks that was my suspicion that technology moves so fast that a current £400 av amp my actual be far better than a 5-6 year old second hand £1600 ampI was really blown away by how much better it was than the Yamaha so I'd say that your suggested Denon option would be a good bet.
TEKNOPUG said:
Thats a very appealing bit of kit! Andeh1 said:
TEKNOPUG said:
Thats a very appealing bit of kit! V6Nelo said:
In terms of longevity, I've had the Denon AVR 2300 for nearly 7 years now, it works flawlessly, the only issue was the internet radio licensing means I need to pay a small fee to still use it.
https://www.whathifi.com/denon/avr-x2300w/review
My 4311 is coming up to 15 years old, delivers fantastic sound. The only thing making it feel old is lack of 4K pass through, for actual sound, I find it hard to fault.https://www.whathifi.com/denon/avr-x2300w/review
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