big black bad block of power

no digital and 5.1

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I have this receiver for over 12 years bought it when it just came out,hooking up with all KEF speaker and 200w watt polk audio sub. this thing still serve me for all this years very hard and til now I very happy with it
Thinking to upgrade to digital but I try to listen and review all the set up at the local store, only thing i can notice the different is a stereo fron the rear when watching movie otherwise all the unit outthere is not matched at all with the AVR3000 in stereo music,but do we really need to waisting this just for stereo in the movie ???...i don't

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I too bought an AVR 3000 used from a guy who wanted to go to Dolby Digital. He unloaded his $1,500 receiver on me for $500, then went and bought a Dolby Digital Yamaha for $900. To this day he doesn't own a DVD player, since his TV is apparently not compatable. Bottom line is he made a baaaad decision.
At first I was highly impressed with all of the different modes on the Denon, but soon was simply satisfied with Matrix for music (a fast, single, non altered echo that makes the room seem bigger) and Dolby for movies.

This receiver says boom. Up to half way on the volume (the highest I dare allow my irreplacable vintage KEF Q speakers go) the sound is perfectly clean. Since it is typically uncomfortable to listen at this volume, I typically run it at all of about 1/4 power. At that volume setting the receiver is hardly working at all. The secret to buying receivers/amps is to buy big, then use only a small portion of their power for absolute clarity.

If you are looking for regular Dolby and fantastic stereo at a bargain price, go with a used AVR-3000.

Just wanted to let everyone know how pleased I am with this receiver. I purchased it new around 1995. I had upgraded my Speakers to Digital Phase AP-4's and wasn't satisfied with my old receiver. I wanted surround sound and was told by the speaker manufacturer that the Luxman was the best reciever to buy for my speakers. I bought it and returned it after my wife and I were irritated by the harshness and other qualities like poor bass reproduction. She said go back to Denon, which we previously had.
Sure enough, we did an A-B comparison between the AVR3000 and the Luxman and sent the Luxman packing. The sound is full, clear, warm and the bass unbelievable. The high are all there and in surround mode this unit is awesome.

I have no plans to replace it. It is fabulous! My wife has heard many amps, receivers and won't buy anything else.

Perfect Pro Logic sound, Clean POWER Ijust love it

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I looked at lots of reviews on this Receiver, a lot of them
talked about over heating. So far mine is working great. I love it I would recommend it to my mother. IF your looking for a Receiver take a good look at this one.

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Remote is a pain. needs 5.1 . wish rears had more power

As I said I have had this unit for over 11 years and I think it has been great. I would like to upgrade my front speakers. I'm using a PSB subsonic-5 sub, and polk satellites up front I just removed the passive 10" sub.(And now for looking at some Linns or B&W 602 to replace the polks) rears are some bookshelf Advents. Will replace with some ceiling B&W or Sonnance 624?. Having a pain of a time trying to find a 5.1 decoder. For the money this Denon AVR-3000 has been good and never a problem and at less than $100.00 a year for good sounds what else can I say. I have had many speakers hooked to this Denon,JBL-L3, Polks, Advents and the first speakers IMC's and with some new bookshelf speakers and minor upgrades I think the AVR-3000 will last years to come.

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Harman/Kardon 5. waste of money

Well, what can I say about this model, I just recieved it two days ago, I bought it used through an add on this web site(Thanks James). If you haven't heard of this model, i'll give you the brief rundown. This was denons top model reciever for consumers listing new at close to 1500. This unit is big, weighs 33lbs. IT delivers 110 watts x 3 and 35 x 2 for the surround modes at 8 ohms. I had been searching for the perfect used DPL receiver for about 2-3 months and my choices came down to the Onkyo 636, 727, 646, Denon 2500, 2600. I had my heart set on the 2500 and realized that it was basically made as a cheaper alternative to the 3000, the amps in the 3000 are far superior, and now I see why, this thing is powerful. WHen I opened up the box, the first things I noticed was that this thing was a BEAST, its big. The only thing the 2500 had on it was a little newer dpl chip and the onscreen programming, but my main use for this unit will be for music. This unit was kept on denons line until 1996 i believe, I was scared that the technology on this unit was old or something, coming out probably in '93, but that is not the case, seems very hi-tech to me. This unit comes with S-video switching 7 in the back and also has a front input under a nice little metal flip down tray that smoothley flips down when you push it. It uses binding posts for all speakers, although they aren't that great, will only take bannana plugs. It will also take dual center channel speakers as well. There are 2 remotes, one very complicated and learning, and one with about 15 basic functions. It has i think 11 or more DSP modes, which aren't really necessary. It does have Normal, wide and Phantom modes for the center channel to allow for multiple speakers setups. There are also delay and effect settings for all the speakers. Its got a variety of other options I'm messing with such as room size, delays, auto setup for surround levels and center levels. The pro-logic processing so far is extremely supererior to the crappy JVC my roomate had hooked up over here. I never new the surrounds we had could perform like this. The bass response on the main speakers are also greatly improved. I don't have my own speakers yet, am running my roomates infinity reference 2000.4. If you've got any speakers to sell, drop me a line, I maybe interested, nothing too much though :) Another reason for choosing this unit, was there are like no other recievers that had this kind of power in a DPL model, the only other model is the Onkyo 919, which would be out of my price range. The remote also has macros and personel memory which are very convenient, but a problem with this remote is all the buttons are exactly the same shape and you can't see them in the dark! I'll live with it no problem. The main problem with this reciever is that it isn't dolby digital or dolby digital ready. If you don't care about dolby digital, like me, there isn't a new reciever you can buy for 500-1000 bucks that probably will compare to this receiver in any category, aside from the newer processing. This unit also has discrete amplifiers. If you don't know already, denon makes great products and is also well known for there amps. Not to mention for a DD reciever for 500 bucks you get probably 60 watts per channel and 1000 bucks maybe you get 80 or 85. If you are lucky, you can find someone upgrading to digital and getting rid of these cheap, look to pay anywhere from 250-450 dollars depending on the terms. I believe this unit is almost identical to the denon AVC-3030, which might be lacking a tuner or something, but read the review on that as well on this web site.