Excellent performer for both music and movies, extremely easy to set up and use.

No DTS decoder.

This is an excellent and affordable receiver that excels at both home theater and music. It is extremely easy to use and has been trouble free for the 6 months I have had it. I would highly recommend the Denon AVR 2700.

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5 channel stereo, excellent input, good build quality, On screen display

Remote control-No direct access to the audio/DSP mode, need to cycle through one by one. No DTS

I owned this 2700 for 5 months and I love it so much. I upgrade this from a 2 year old JVC 770 and I could tell a big different why people go for Denon. The sound is so clean and sweet, not like JVC, the sound is bright at high and very unnatural. I like the Dolby Digital mode. I don’t have the sub yet but the neighbor already complaint the bass that rattles their carpeted floor. I can’t imagine how it sounds when I put on a sub with its LFE.
Now I spend more time to baby-sit my HT system at home than watching movie in the theater. I love the 5-channel stereo. My guests were impressed when I used it during party. It is a great receiver for the its price and value.

Here is my system : Receiver : Denon AVR-2700,
CD player: Denon DCM-360,
DVD player: Toshiba 2109,
Front Speaker: AR 310HO,
Center channel speakers :AR CS25,
Surround : Cheepo KLH bookself

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Denon DCM-360 CD player, Toshiba 2109 DVD player, AR 310HO main speakers. AR CS25 center channel speaker.

Price and sound

Setup instructions suck

Good unit for the price but very difficult to understand the setup instructions. I have a AVR 3300 on order.

Dolby Digital is so real, and music sounds great

No stanby power button on the front! Bad manual

This is one hell of a receiver, very nice bass, 6ch. inputs for upgrading to DTS. I only hate that there is not a stanby button on the front of the receiver itself, but that isn't really bad, but the manual could be much much better, i.e: on screen display should be read on another device, your tv or monitor, and some functions aren't explained. Here a few examples: 5ch. stereo? direct-stereo(what's the difference) and some other things. But now some very positive things, even most important, it sounds very very nice, I haven't noticed the lack of bass, hell no the bass can be cranked out as high as you want, maybe it is because I have a sub connected. The highs are not harse, they are very smooth and DD is just great, the HK AVR35 is just a little boy compared to this one. Value 5 stars cause it was not expensive and it works fine and sounds even better, but four stars overall cause of the lack of some functions.

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Just picked up this unit for a good price. It seems that it is discountinued by Denon or will be soon. So you can get the unit at around $565 if you push for the discount. I use the unit at the moment in Pro Logic Mode. I am waiting till the DVD video + DVD audio comes out after the first of the year to buy a DVD player. I am very impressed with the sound of this unit in Stereo. The receiver really puts out the sound. It made some old Boston Acoustic T830 sound very good. The Pro Logic Mode is much improved over my old first generation Pro Logic receiver. The unit seems to be well built. On the negative side the manual is a joke. It is very poorly written and in many cases different features are not even talked about in the manual. The remote is not well laid out. The best thing to do is when you get the unit is sit down and play with the remote and figure out how the unit works. One would think that Denon could do a better job of writing the manual. However, the sound of the unit is very good. I liked it much better than the Yamaha units I listen to. For me that is the most important aspect in deciding on what receiver to buy.

Fairly easy to use.

None other than no dts

I owned a denon 1100 reciever for about a year. The reciever was excellent for music, but when it came dowm to watching movies it was so so. The main problem was the center channel was muffled. I started looking for another reciever two weeks ago. I had no intention on buying one. I started talking with the manager of the store and come to find out they had a few denons reduced because they were discontinued. After a while I was still not impressed and I started to leave. The manager stopped me (it might have been a ploy) and said, "I have one more reciever, but it is not here." It was the denon 2700. He showed me the specs 80w * 5 channels, dolby digital, dts ready (I do not think I will be using DTS in the near future), and on and on. I asked the price. It was 450 dollars. Wow! I bought it with terms of bringing it back for cash exchange if I did not like it, becuase I did not get to test it to see how well it preforms. I still have it, and it plays music and cinema like a dream. The system is very easy to use if you look at te instruction manual first.
For the price and quality I have to give it 5 Stars.

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The AVR2700 is a fine reciever for the money. It fits well into my 'cheapo' HT system including Sharpvision front projector, KlipschKSB, Panasonic DVD A110.
As I am unable to spend $100000 on my system I had to make many compromises but in my view all are acceptable. For most folks the AVR will be acceptable. For people who use stones on their speakers and spend $10,000 on their wire it is insufficiently expensive and exotic. The good news is that it probably sounds as good as any system under $5000 for one tenth of the price. A sensible if slightly boring buy.Due to my ingrained snobbishness only a 4 from me(-1 point for total lack of style)

The Denon AVR 2700 is one AWESOME receiver. The Dolby Digital sound and even the Dolby Prologic sound simply incredible. Whoever has been complaining about lack of bass simply isn't seting up the receiver right. The onscreen menus/setup are nice, as is the 5 channel stereo (great for listening to some tunes). One of the biggest selling points for me is the memory. It "remembers" how each input is setup, so if you switch from DVD to CD, it also changes sound fields from DD to 5 chan. stereo. This is huge for me, my wife always had trouble adjusting/setting the sound fields.
Anyway, this unit, for the money, won hands down over everything else I listened to at the stores (Onkyo 656, Yamaha 795, HK 45) You will not be disappointed in this unit!

Upon purchasing the AVR3200 I discovered that it didn't have multi-room capabilities. And running a separate amplifier for the whole house speakers through the pre-outs I soon found out that all the other speakers in the house were controlled by the main volume. Through experimentation, I found that I could run my amp through the VCR out terminals in the back of my AVR3200 and get much more wattage response than that of the pre-outs. By using the REC out I was able to control which component I wanted to listen to.

After many weeks of study, review and A/B comparison, I settled on the Denon rather than the Yamaha, Onkyo or Nakamichi units within the same price range. I also was impressed by the Sony 925 feature to control levels of volume, bass, mid and highs on all 5 speakers. I did not buy the Sony because they home-cook the specs and this unit has a history of heat problems. I was replacing a unit with heat problems so I did not want any more of that.
The Onkyo sounded plastic and the Nakamichi brand has not convinced me that they are back to reliable products again. The Yamaha 795 was a very impressive unit (hate the remote) and came in a close second place.

The Denon 2700 won me over with the 5-channel stereo feature - I listen to more music rather than watch movies. Once you get the system configuration down and add a good powered subwoofer, the Denon kicks. Plenty of power with good tone and the features are not silly like on some brands we know. Remote becomes easy to use after only a few tries and it glows in the dark. The Dolby AC3 is really clear and segregated. You may compare the audio to any movie theater in town. For the money, the Denon is a very good product.

If the unit allowed control of all frequencies in all 5 channels, I would have given it 5 stars. As is, I'll go with 4&1/2.