Denon AVR-X6300H - AV network receiver - 11.2 channel - black

I bought the x6300h brand new in mid-2017 (July) at an amazing price of around £1250. It stayed in its box new, untouched, and unused in storage for pretty much a full year due to a lengthy house purchase and move. Thankfully, it had a 2 year manufacturer warranty by Denon as luck would have it, my x6300h was defective out of the box with one of the malfunctioning soundboard issues that had, as I subsequently learned through research on the internet, had afflicted a number of batches for this model. Denon did their thing and got my new AVR sent (I dropped it in at a local authorised Denon retailer) off to an authorised repairer, whom solved the issue with a complete replacement of the soundboard. Once back in pristine condition and now fully working, the sound is absolutely phenomenal. I run a 7.2.4 configuration primarily for Dolby Atmos and DTS: X, plus getting the benefits of their new upmixing technologies, Dolby Surround and DTS: Neural X. The sound stage has a beautifully dynamic, nuanced, and well balanced sound and completely obliterates the often harsh sound that my previous Onkyo TX-NR626 - admittedly a decent budget receiver and was great for £250, but no comparison with the x6300h. Audyssey's flagship XT32 room correction is phenomenal and far better than the basic MultEQ on my Onkyo. Also, this AVR has plenty of power in the amps for me. Audyssey is one of the reasons I went for Denon as many other brands have ditched Audyssey for other room correction technologies. A great all in one system, and if the x6300h is anything to go by, then I'm sure its successors in both the x6400h and x6500h are well worth the money!

So far the setbup on screen menues sound quality and features are good. Heos function intermitent and a bit lacking. Would like to be able to set a sleep time and timed activation on heos devices and avr as source timed to start and sleep.

I bought this player to refresh my current Hi-Fi. Great features, providing everything you need to be totally future proof. Love it.

All the functionallity you could need and packaged up fantastically well.

The main benefit of this receiver is that its an 'all in one' solution for just about anyone. I upgraded from a 2011 era AV amp to this model for three reasons. 1. Atmos. 2. Remove dedicated power amps to declutter. 3. 4k compatibility via HDMI. I've had this for @ 4 months so far and today is the day that 4x height ceiling speakers were added. I'll be honest in my surprise of the benefit after trying out a single test blu-ray whilst the overall installation continues. I couldn't even wait to wire it all up neatly - the wires are pretty much dangling waiting for me to finish it all off. After just 5 minutes of Atmos, I'm now fully happy with the upgrade to this amp. My #2 and #3 upgrade reasons are relatively marginal benefits until I can change my display to HDR. I genuinely smiled a smile listening in the test just now and I'm immediately thinking of a number of movies to watch over. The value of this receiver is with Atmos and I'm now a believer! On a practical level, the amp/speaker options are great and easy to setup via the on screen displays.