Review on Denon AVR-X2700H 8K Ultra HD 7.2 Channel (95W x 7) AV Receiver 2020 Model - Optimized for Gaming, Music Streaming, 3D Audio & Video, Alexa + HEOS by Jairo Cunha

It was a day for me so my experience is limited. Mechanical size is great, heat dissipation (which I've seen complaints about elsewhere) is decent, sound quality is good, features on offer are excellent, BUT. The firmware that controls the AVR-X2700H is simply unreliable and unreliable. FIRMWARE SCREWUP #1 A feature allows you to assign different inputs (HDMI_#, Optical_#) to different named outputs (Blu-ray, CATV, Game, etc.). All of this is very flexible but not reliable. For example, you can assign a non-existent input to a named output (like I don't know, but it happens). In one case, it was COAX2 on Blu-ray. There is NO COAX2 input in this unit, and if you try To assign it, it doesn't show up as an item in the list of inputs you FIRMWARE SCREW #2 Somehow the X2700 REALLY assigned that non-existent Blu-ray input and I tried no matter how hard I tried there was no way to change it or remove it trust me i tried but failed so i saved the x2700s settings to a usb stick (nice touch) and u.nit to factory defaults reset reinitialize device and finalize I have to redo all the settings, which may not seem like much until you realize you have to keep calibrating the Audyssey sound from scratch. FIRMWARE"AGGRESSIVE MARKETING"Odissi. Audyssey is said to be designed for an 8-seat room. That's an extremely generous claim unless you think it's possible to fit all 8 people with their heads within 2 feet of the central listening position. Maybe having everyone close together helps, but other than that, the Audyssey included in the X2700 is really meant to line up the speakers for a two-foot circle. They could seat two adults in this area. TWO, not EIGHT COSMETICS Also, right out of the box, there was a not very noticeable 7 foot strip on the front of my new device. It takes a keen eye to see, but I did. Since the block is behind glass doors, no one will notice. To my delight, Revain has addressed this issue, but it still conforms to Denon's quality control. extremely large (and flexible). Eventually the device stopped making any noise, so I spent about two hours trying to figure out what was wrong. The guide and troubleshooting tips/suggestions didn't help much. Quite by accident I found that when "MAIN ZONE" is turned off (god knows how it happened with the input assignment, but it did) you don't get any sound out of the unit even though everything seems fine. (and it was). You would think this would be clearly stated in the user manual. There is a section on page 254 called "No Sound". Is there something about "the main zone is disabled"? No no. Two hours. spent. And *I* didn't turn off the Man Zone. I suspect this is a firmware artifact, as well as the mysterious purpose of "COAX2". As it takes me most of the day to set these things up etc. I will not be returning the unit just because I don't want to go through the hassle of taking my setup apart, boxing it up, shipping it to my local UPS shop To wait for a new device, reconnect it and reconfigure the software. If I had known all this, I would have bought the receiver from someone whose name was not "Denon".