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User Submitted Denon AVR-591 5.1 Channel A/V Home Theater Receiver with HDMI 1.4a supporting 1080p and 3D (Black) Reviews Date: 2010-09-03 Simple yet complicated receiver. I love playing around and experimenting with different sound settings. However, this receiver doesn't make that too easy. The manual is hard to follow, and they try to make the receiver simple for the user by having make most of the decisions for you. Setting up the speaker calibration/Audyssey EQ was very simple and works very well. It made my subwoofer a little quiet, but I just turned it up manually. What works best is to just run the Audyssey EQ setup and just let the receiver use all it's default settings. Playing around with the sound settings was difficult and uproductive. Just make sure that for each of your components, the amp is using some sort of surround sound decoder (DTS, Dolby, etc) and it will all sound great. The receiver sounds wonderful. Just let it do its own thing. Check out [...] for a simplified Denon-to-English dictionary. Date: 2010-08-25 Very good value, some minor words of caution I won't spend too much time repeating what the other reviewers have said, but I agree this product seems a very good value considering the price and features. Note that my setup is all HDMI, run through the receiver and out to the TV. A few words of caution that are not necessarily a fault of the receiver but can affect your overall experience: 1. Lip sync was a problem at first. There is an option to automatically handle it with the TV, but apparently my TV does not have this feature. I had to manually delay the audio about 40 ms to get it right (and it drove me crazy until I finally got the right delay). 2. I use the rocketfish wireless surround kit for the rear speakers. There is a delay inherent to that product, and after running Audyssey I had to manually change the distance to the rear speakers - due to the delay it calculated they were 28 feet away, instead of about 8. Easy fix, however just make sure you double-check. 3. I started playing with the surround features while playing Xbox360, and noticed it stopped outputting Dolby 5.1 and was only recognizing 2 channels of input. After driving myself crazy trying to fix it through the menu options (which are not always intuitive), I went into the Xbox settings and de-selected Dolby Digital, then re-selected it. This fixed it but again, other Xbox users take note. It took me days to figure it out and completely by accident. 4. After running Audyssey the subwoofer was way too loud, at least for an apartment. Easy fix, just turned the sub down. Overall I recommend this product, and suggest that once you do the initial setup don't fiddle with it! Date: 2010-08-04 Excellent receiver. It took me a bit of time to navigate through the menus and figure out how to calibrate it but after busting out the directions and allowing it to calibrate itself it has been amazing. The price was excellent and the sound quality is stunning. Date: 2010-08-03 Great Entry Level Receiver Great bare bones receiver for the price! Sound quality is excellent, and the speaker setup is a snap with the included microphone. Make sure to grab a cheap camera tripod for running the speaker setup. The on-screen menu is fairly easy to navigate, and the manual is comprehensive. AVSForum can take care of any questions you have left. Only real downsides I've found are that the remote isn't great, and Denon in general lacks some discrete controls that I'd like to have (e.g., disabling the subwoofer when watching at night without having to explicitly turn the sub volume down). Very pleased with my purchase all around, though. Date: 2010-07-29 Denon receiver Thus far excellent. Really impressed with the features given the price-point (paid $335 no tax, free shipping). Use it in the bedroom system with OPPO 83 (very good) and driving B&W in ceiling CCM65s; easy to set up, easy to calibrate; easy to tweak (although I'm pretty good with this stuff); manual is OK-ish, a little painful at times if you take it literally, but you'll get it right if you stick at it. Seems like there is plenty of slam at the bottom end, high end clarity and no muddy resonance (partly great speakers). Would think it's hard to beat, although to be fair, I didn't try the Onkyo at the same price point--I generally like Onkyo, but this is my third denon in as many years driving different room systems and am very impressed with quality all round. Probably couldn't go too far wrong * Price is subject to change. |
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