I needed a home theater receiver capable of many more things than my "pre -HDMI," old power hoss was capable of doing.
In the business of retail, I find that, unimaginably, 3D nonsense has made many really cool things from a year or two ago very obsolete.
So obsolete, in fact, that even teh Denon website has failed me. So here is the residual Amazon listing of my "new receiver":
my new Denon HT receiver I bought New In The Box for two hundred bucksOK, so I have changed my stuff over the ages since i first started on this forum.
I am struggling with the notion of adding a second set of surrounds (completing teh 7.1 spec.) I have never had the option of 7.1 surround format in the past.
Of course, I have become very curious. Am I MISSING anything?
I know that this is not a movie forum, but in the interest of getting the most informed responses regarding efficient high quality sound, does anyone have an opinion on the 7.1 surround issue when compared to being "mostly satisfied" with old school 5.1 surround.
I can use either with my new receiver (and as I have experienced in the past week - it sounds great as it is, in 5.1 mode) and I am wondering if anyone has actually found 7.1 to be a benefit over 5.1.
I would welcome any responses, even if you have only tried the simplest of HTIBs, compared between the two surround formats.