DENON HOME THEATRE RECEIVERS

We keep finding ourselves attending press events in which the mega electronics makers reveal their latest products. Normally they are showing off their latest TVs and soundbars. These days the TVs are pretty uniformly first-class, but we feel distinctly uncomfortable as they tout the virtues of their soundbars. To be fair, many of these soundbars don’t sound too horrible these days, but neither do they produce effective surround sound, real high fidelity stereo or deep, extended bass.

If you want those things (and since you’re reading Best Buys Audio & AV we think there’s a good chance that you do), the starting point is a home theatre receiver. Which brings us to Denon.

For more than 20 years we’ve been impressed with Denon’s AV receivers. We’ve been using them and writing about them right back to the early days of the DVD. And as they have improved relentlessly over that time, their prices