Denon AVR 887 7 1 Channel Home Theater Receiver
Denon AVR 887 7 1 Channel Home Theater Receiver
Power up your home theater with the Denon AVR-887 surround sound receiver, which offers seven discrete amplifier channels (100 watts apiece, for 700 watts of total power). This includes for the surround back channel speakers to give you more clearly defined sound localization at the rear for 6.1-channel surround sources such as DTS-ES Discrete 6.1/Matrix 6.1/NEO:6 and Dolby Digital EX. The power amp circuits have been designed to reproduce exceptionally high sound quality with a wide frequency response from 10 Hz to 100 kHz. Denon’s multi-room entertainment system feature lets you select different audio sources for listening in different rooms, and the AVR-887 offers two zones. It’s XM Radio ready (optional XM tuner required) and offers XM-HD surround sound. It’s also compatible with Denon’s ASD-1R control dock for iPods. It features a 56-station AM/FM/XM random preset memory tuning.
The AVR-887 is equipped with two HDMI inputs as well as one HDMI output, allowing the selection of multiple digital video signals (up to 1080p). The HDMI terminals also accept multi-channel digital audio input and the input signals can be output via amps. It also includes a video up/down conversion function that allows the receiver to be connected to the video monitor via a single cable regardless of the video input signal’s format:
- Composite video signals are converted to HDMI, component, and S-Video
- S-Video signals are converted to HDMI, component video, and composite video
- Component video signals are converted to HDMI
With Denon’s Auto Setup feature, you can confirm speaker phase, assess the size of all your speakers, measure speaker-to-listener distances, and balance speaker levels. With the included DM-S205 microphone placed in your favorite listening position, Auto Setup uses a test tone generator and proprietary programming to precisely balance speaker levels and fine-tune the delay settings for each speaker. The result is optimized system performance for your specific home theater room.
You can customize the performance of this receiver to suit your home theater and enhance operating ease. Adjustments are easy to make via a dialog format on the fluorescent display on the front panel, and these customized settings are then stored, for each source input and surround mode, in a personal memory setting. Put yourself in the middle of your favorite concert hall and music environments with Denon’s DSP acoustic environment simulation modes, which include jazz club, rock arena, video game, virtual surround, and mono movie. Other features include:
- Surround playback formats: DTS 96/24 decoding for DVD video; DTS-ES 6.1 and Matrix 6.1; DTS NEO:6; Dolby Digital EX; Dolby Pro Logic IIx; Neural Surround
- Denon’s 7 Channel Stereo mode transforms 2-channel sources (such as CD, tape, stereo radio) into surround sound, free of delay effects and unnatural artifacts, from all 7 speakers.
- Audio delay function corrects slight lags between sound and picture that can occur when a video signal is processed.
- 8-channel external inputs
- Variable subwoofer crossover switching (40/60/80/90/100/110/120/150/200/250 Hz)
- Three sets of component video inputs that maintain a flat response up to 100 MHz to ensure sharp video quality
- Night mode
- Glow key remote control
- Power transformer for high power, twin drive rectifier, and large aluminum extruded heatsink
Cinema Equalizer
The sound from movie sources recorded in Dolby Digital, DTS, or other formats emphasizes high-frequency range due to a theater’s front speakers being placed behind the movie screen. If this sound is reproduced in the home theater without correction, the high-frequency range is too strong. This Denon receiver’s Cinema Equalizer feature corrects these high-frequency components so that the sound is clearer and easier to listen to when using Dolby Digital, Dolby Pro Logic II, Dolby Digital EX and DTS surround modes.
What’s in the Box
Receiver, power cord, remote control (with batteries), DM-S205 Auto Setup microphone, printed operating instructions
User Ratings and Reviews
3 Stars Compatibility W/Samsung DLP
Product has very nice audio/video qualities when compatibility is not a problem. I exchanged 3 receivers at the recommendation of Denon tech support. Last time I simply returned it. Denon has told me that Samsung DLP and Panasonic Plasma TV’s have repeatedly had compatibility problems with Denon products when using the HDMI conversion to display 480i signals. The receiver would not display S Video converted to HDMI on my DLP, nor would the on screen menu work (also 480i). Denon told me if I selected another brand I would have the same problem, but thus far with a Sony I do not have this issue. Beware if you have Samsung or Panasonic TV’s, they may not display HDMI from a 480i source.
4 Stars Solid entry-level high-end HT receiver
The Denon AVR-887 is a solid entry-level high-end home theater receiver. You can pay thousands for units that don’t do a whole lot more or sound exceptionally better.
A down side to high-end is that they are not always simple to set up and use, and the AVR-887 is no exception.
Not having a PhD in particle physics, electronics, or aerospace engineering, it had to read the manual and go online to find out how all of the I/O options worked.
Hooked up to a home-built subwoofer and a 5.1 set of Polk Audio RM-101 HT speakers, I have thoroughly enjoyed the music, gaming, and HT experience.
3 Stars AVR-887 7.1
Working with DENON products like usual with setup was great, the problem was the HDMI connection are very picky and if a flea so much as farts you can loose contact between the cable connector and receiver jack. Had to use multiple brands of HDMI cable only one brand fit a little better than all others.
1 Star Save your money
Worst interface ever. Worst manual ever. With that said, once you do have it set up and working properly, this unit is awesome. BUT, after just a few years the audio quality started to get a little weird and I could hear very slight popping noises. This degraded over time to the point that it’s now unusable. Mind you, this only happens when playing anything tat requires more than 2 channels of audio over optical. I’ve spent far too much time online in audio forums trying to troubleshoot this system. SInce the problem is intermittent, the local audio repair shop could never reproduce the problem. Google this unit with audio popping, static, noise, etc… you’ll see what I mean. Stay away.
5 Stars holy moly. this sounds great!
my old reciever Sony STR-DE875 sounded great to me. i bought it for 350 at circuit city in um 2003 i think.
i never turned it off and last year the right channel got a lot weaker than the left. i lived with it for a year and last week i started hearing crackling when playing cds at full volume. so i used this excuse to buy a new reciever hehe.
i frequently visit A/V science forum and always read about denon. so decided on this brand. next price. i only had like 500 to spend. oh and i needed a phono input and hdmi of course. i checked the denon site and decided on 887. got it from amzon for 599 shipped.
ok ugh too much writing. well holy geezus when i heard this machine. cds, lps, sacd dvdas, dvds all sounded so freakin amazing. like plasmas have 3d picture will this had 3d sound.
i am really impressed and can only imagine what the higher end models sound like. it cant get better can it?
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