DENON AVR-X2300W
How far do you want to go with your home theatre? You can spend, oh, hundreds of thousands of dollars if you want. Or a couple of thousand could get you a collection of gear that some might call home theatre. But we reckon there’s a sweet spot, beyond which performance and feature benefits diminish relatively rapidly when compared to the monetary costs. And we further reckon that the Denon AVR-X2300W sits very close to that sweet spot.
EQUIPMENT
Recently Denon has added a feature to some of its premium offerings: support for the HEOS multiroom system (see the next review for an example). But if you don’t need or want multiroom, or you’ve gone for a non-HEOS solution, then why spend on HEOS support? The Denon AVRX2300W does everything, network-wise, that those premium models do, short of HEOS, while also providing 7.1-channel sound, Dolby Atmos and DTS:X three-dimensional sound decoding, and full Ultra High Definition video
