It's a Denon, consistant sound quality from product-to-product
- by JMBP, October 21, 2009 at 1:56 pm
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Pros: HD Radio, Internet Radio, excellent 1080P up-scaling from 480p, GUI
Cons: expensive, remote can be better, gets pretty warm
Cons: expensive, remote can be better, gets pretty warm
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Purchase Date: October 2009
Purchase Price: $1,248.00
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This is to share my experience with a new 4310CI for the first week:
PRICE - I just upgraded to this 4310CI from an old Denon AVR3801 which has 7x110W. From all the articles I’ve read which indicated 4310CI is more likely an upgrade of the 3808CI instead of 4308CI, and the price was raised form 1699 for 3808CI to 1999 MSRP. However, I had my 4310 for 1248 (quoted from 6ave.com and PMed in a local Best Buy.) I paid ~800 for the 3801 in 2001. I think 1248 for the 4310CI is great as of this time.
AUDIO – 1) In pure stereo mode, I cannot tell immediately of any over the old 3801. However, 4310CI’s HD radio does lock-in more FM and AM stations (signal dropout completely if signal quality is poor) and offers pleasant radio listening experience. I don’t have XM and Sirius satellite; therefore, I cannot share any experience for those. 2) In AV mode, 4310CI does sound sensationally different and somewhat better than 3801; however, 3801 is doing great basic 5.1 decoding, IMO. No need to upgrade to 4310CI just for this if I am not looking for HDMI connections. 3) The internet radio is very cool and the sound quality is not bad at all. However, it froze on me twice thus far; power cycle brought it right back.
VIDEO – 1) no HDMI handshake issue thus far with my LN52A750 and the 1080P really does much better job than 1080i via component cables with my old 3801. Again, I wouldn’t make the upgrade just for only this subtle video quality improvement. 2) ABT-2010 does a super job up-scaling my DVD’s 480p output. IMO, it does the best up-scaling job (very SMOOTH, although yet Bluray quality) in contrast to letting PS3 (pretty decent) and Samsung LN52A750 (the worse, no acceptable) running the up-scale. This alone make 4310CI a good buy since I don’t have a higher end DVD player such as Oppo.
OTHER – 4310CI gets very warm. My 3808 is running cool to touch from the top, no heat at all. I was concerned about the heat when I first had the 4310CI all connected and ran for about 15 minutes in -30db. Don’t know if this is normal but the user manual does say it would get hot and it needs room for ventilation.
Sure it is costly; however, I’d recommend this 4310CI for the price I’ve paid for if you have the cash.
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