{"id":91978,"date":"2018-06-07T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T15:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=91978"},"modified":"2018-08-27T18:09:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T01:09:52","slug":"denon-avrx8500h-receiver-unboxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/denon-avrx8500h-receiver-unboxing\/","title":{"rendered":"Denon AVR-X8500H Unboxing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our friends at Denon sent me a very nice new toy to test for review: the flagship AVR-X8500H A\/V receiver. Setting this thing up and putting it through its paces is going to take me a while. In the meantime, here are some photos to tantalize you.
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With a hefty MSRP of $3,999.00, the AVR-X8500H is Denon’s top-of-the-line model, replacing the AVR-X7200WA released in 2015. To justify that expense, the unit is fully equipped with all the latest bells and whistles, including Dolby Atmos and DTS:X, as well as the competing Auro3D format out-of-the-box. (Auro was previously a $200 add-on feature.) <\/p>\n

Most notably, it’s also the first mass-market A\/V receiver to offer 13.1 channel decoding, for a 7.1.6 immersive sound experience. Aside from some exponentially more expensive boutique processors, the X8500H is the only way to get more than 4 height channels in Atmos or DTS:X without an absurdly convoluted jury-rigged solution<\/a> requiring three or more A\/V receivers operating simultaneously.<\/p>\n

At 51.6 lbs, it’s also a heavy beast.<\/p>\n

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This is how the size of the X8500H compares to my existing X5200W.<\/p>\n

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Getting this installed into my system is going to be a real project, but I’m eager to give it a good run-through.<\/p>\n

Update: Here’s the full review<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[Find the Denon AVR-X8500H on Amazon.<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our friends at Denon sent me a very nice new toy to test for review: the flagship AVR-X8500H A\/V receiver. Setting this thing up and putting it through its paces is going to take me a while. In the meantime, here are some photos to tantalize you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":91979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[2765,4227,1669,5111,2545,8604,1674,4040],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91978"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93250,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91978\/revisions\/93250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}