The clean, friendly looking front panel of Denon’s AVC-A1H is all a front, because hiding behind that friendly looking facade is a true beast of an audio component.
Sure, it’s an integrated network AV amplifier, but it’s one that has 15 (that’s fifteen!) channels of power onboard, with each of those channels rated with a power output of 150 watts. The AVC-A11 also has four independent subwoofer outputs, so you could use it to drive a Dolby Atmos home theatre system in a seven-channel layout with both side surround speakers and surround back speakers, plus an extra pair of wide speakers at the front, six overhead speakers, and four subwoofers — all without the need to add anything except for speakers.
If you’re not quite up to installing the fifteen loudspeakers and four subwoofers you need to deliver the fullest, most immersive 3D Dolby Atmos experience the amplifier can facilitate, you can always make use of Denon’s Height Virtualisation Technology, which creates the sensation of overhead sound without those ceiling speakers… and perhaps forgo up to three of the subwoofers. As for those subwoofers, you can tune them with the built-in Audysseyto the full-range Audyssey Mult-EQ-X by paying the applicable licence fee, which then allows you to do this.)
