For the money its a steel

tons of features to play with

dennons reciever lets you adjust all types of sound fields

extra spot for a second set of front speakers

Im good with this stuff and some of the features still came hard to figure out

The most confussing controller i have ever seen. More buttons than a apollo spaceship

lower amount of watts per channel

menu screnes are not easily accesable

only one coaxil input

The Dennon AVR 681 at the time had all the big is was of the best bangs for its buck. Dennon is a high end company that had taken a chance on marketing to the middle range to lower price recievers. This is why many people may not have heard of Dennon. If you go to dennon.com you will see that there cheepest reciever will start at 200.00 and got up to 7000.00.
For the price this is one of the best recievers you could get. It had all of the charicteristics off a high end for much much less. The true rating for surrond sound though it says 90 watts @ 6 ohms is the understanding of stereo sound which is 2 speakers and the sub. Surrond which is 5 channels is 60 watts @ 8 ohms.

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alot of features for the money

poor display , not detailed enough. low output signal on remote. too many functions on one button.

My unit came without a manual so it's hard to tell what level of dolby it has. I haven't had any serious problems with it but it does seem to run hot, even at low levels.the 90 watts is not true power,Its music power.

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Three problems in 16 months. First, a main resistor that shut down the entire system. Second and Third problems were the same: Left channel went silent during TV mode (was fine with CD, DVD, etc., however). All problems required repair from Denon. Don't buy this product unless you're prepared to have a significant amount of downtime while Denon takes 2-4 weeks to repair each issue. Unacceptable performance from a good name....a true lemon.

Stay away from this model.

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none for the price

i paid 120.oo for it and i had a kenwood before and the denon sounds great and have spent lots on others before and and not been near as happy!!!

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No Decent Help Line Without The Attitudes

Im Looking For A Copy Of The Origanal Manual For The AVR-681 Denons Help Stinks. So Does There Attitudes.

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I purchased the Denon,AVR 681 as part of a home theatre package that included six denon speakers. Inshort order I replaced the Denon speakers with klipsch speakers whic made a world of difference in the overall audio quality. The unit is hooked up to a Sony Wega and has worked very well. However, after nine months of use, the AVR 681 broke down. The unit clicks on, starts programing and then shuts down.I returned it to sears for service as it is still covered under warrenty. I would expect a better produict from Deno

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I bought this unit at Sears, it was an open box return, the customer did not even remove it from the box, he read the manual and thought that it was too complicated, i'm a salesperson at sears so I picked it up for a cool 92 bucks, with full 2 year warranty. I just purchased some JBL bookshelf speakers for my new system and wow, I much rather the warmer sound that denon has over the yamaha's which are too bright.

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This is my first true AV receiver