Denon manual Denon AVR-3300 Dolby Digital & dts A/V Receiver Overview, Front End

Denon AVR-3300 Dolby Digital & dts A/V Receiver

Overview

Denon’s flagship A/V receiver, the AVR-5700, set the standard for home theater and music reproduction accuracy, with a host of technological advances and user features that define the present state-of-the-art in a single A/V component.

Denon’s AVR-3300 A/V receiver has been specifically designed to incorporate as many of the AVR-5700’s technologies and features at a dramatically lower retail price.

AVR-3300 Technical Details

Front End

Inputs (analog) are provided for the following audio sources:

•AM/FM tuner (built-in); moving magnet phono; CD; MD/Tape Inputs are provided for the following video sources:

•DVD; VDP; TV/DBS (TV input, or satellite tuner); VCR 1; VCR 2/V AUX

Analog inputs are converted to digital via precision 20 bit oversampling A/D converters for deliv- ery to the DSP section. An analog 2 channel bypass routes stereo analog audio past the DSP section, providing straight-through signal purity. A parallel bass management circuit provides high pass/low pass filtering for the main left and right speakers and the subwoofer, so that the analog signals appearing at the left and right speaker jacks remain in analog form from the AVR- 3300’s input jacks all the way through to the outputs, when the ANALOG button is selected on the remote control (for stereo music listening without surround simulation enhancement). This feature is especially important if your CD player has HDCD decoding, as a digital connection does not provide the benefits of HDCD processing. The AVR-3300’s analog bypass mode pre - serves the full fidelity of your favorite HDCDs, LP recordings and other high quality sources. Competitive A/V receivers typically “digitize” all incoming analog signals, even during simple stereo operation. Not so with the AVR-3300 (or other Denon digital A/V components).

A record output function allows the user to select an audio source for direct delivery to the recording output jacks, while the user listens/watches another source.

A separate Multi-zone output selector delivers a fixed or variable level output to the multi-room output jacks (one stereo pair) for second zone music listening.

Cinema Equalizer tames overly bright movie soundtracks by gently tailoring (not filtering) the very top octaves of the three front channels.

Eight Channel External Inputs are provided for future 7.1 channel discrete surround formats. Newly proposed multi-channel music formats such as Super Audio CD and DVD-Audio may have up to eight discrete channels – the AVR-3300 is prepared for the future of multi-channel music reproduction.