Denon 2807 Auto Setup (Audyssey)

[dyazdani]

For you techie gurus out there, do you know any specifics about the auto setup/eq features of the Denon receivers, e.g. 2807?

There is a thread on my Porsche forum regarding a receiver recommendation, the guy was planning on a 2807 and several of us suggested looking at Rotel, etc. A couple other guys said the auto setup routine of the Denon was a big selling point. I said (and so did others) to just buy a RS meter and calibrate it yourself and go with a Rotel unit.

The response I got was that the auto setup takes more into account than what you'd get out of a SPL meter/test, something about a fancy algorithm from Audyssey.

Anyone know how well it works? Here's a description - Manual

[BlazeMaster]

I have setup a few of the 07 series Denon for couple of customers before, but the main benefits of the Audyssey eq that's different for others is its ability to compensate for the viewers sitting outside of the sweet spot. Unless you have a lot of people "critically" watching a movie with you all the time, I'd still rather have the sweet spot when I watch the movies alone. Like many of us here, most of our friends just aren't as serious about home theater experience like we are.

OTOH, if you do want the best Audyssey algorithm, you're still better off buying the stand-alone version of the Audyssey EQ component.

[Kal Rubinson]

Audyssey does not do auto-setup; that is built into all Denons to begin with. Audyssey adds automatic EQ for each channel which operates in the amplitude and time domains. Using an RS meter only gets you more accurate level settings than you can do by ear.

You can look up reviews of the Audyssey EQ (including the one I did as part of my report on the Denon 4806) in many places.

Kal

[dyazdani]

Yeah, that's what confused me. They were talking about auto-setup and EQ seperately but only mentioned the setup...

I finally figured it out after someone mentioned the Audyssey functionality.