Slated for supply in 2024, the AVR-X6800H will characteristic quite a lot of upgrades, together with an 11.4 structure with 11 x 140 watts of amplification (up from 11.2) and help for 8K video on all of its seven HDMI inputs and two HDMI outputs. The receiver may even boast a preamplifier mode with as much as 13.4 channels of processing.
Not like a lot of at the moment’s audio electronics gear, which is made in China, the receiver was designed in Japan and shall be manufactured in that nation. The brand new mannequin shall be priced at $3,499, which is $500 greater than X6700H, which was launched in 2020.
Options that may carry over embrace Audyssey room correction with the choice of including Dirac Reside at additional price, help for Dolby Atmos and the opposite key immersive surround-sound codecs — DTS:X, IMAX Enhanced, and Auro-3D — plus pass-through help for the excessive dynamic vary (HDR) codecs Dolby Imaginative and prescient, HDR10+, HLG, HDR10, and Dynamic HDR.
Like the present X6700H, the substitute X6800H options multiroom wi-fi streaming by way of Denon’s HEOS platform and a large number of setup and configuration choices to accommodate most AV setups.
The early announcement of a substitute mannequin begs the query: Will Denon low cost the present mannequin and, if that’s the case, when? For extra data on the AVR-X6800H, go to denon.com.
