As anticipated from the model, the amplifier integrates the HEOS platform for streaming audio and multiroom playback with suitable gear. It additionally handles the Dolby Atmos, DTS:X and Auro-3D immersive sound codecs, and helps IMAX Enhanced.
The headline energy score for the AVC-X6800H is 205W per channel, albeit measured into one channel at 6ohm, 1kHz with 1% THD. Extra indicative of the amp’s real-world grunt can be Denon’s 140W (0.05% THD, 20Hz-20kHz, 8ohm, two-channel) determine. The unit, which is manufactured within the firm’s Japanese facility, makes use of Denon’s discrete, ‘monolithic’ amplifier design.
Connections embrace seven HDMI inputs and three outputs, with assist for HDR10+ and Dolby Imaginative and prescient, plus variable refresh charges (VRR) and auto low latency mode (ALLM) gaming options. The AVC-X6800H additionally gives a bevy of additional hook-ups, together with MM phono, optical/coax digital, and analogue stereo.
Onboard processing is to 13.4 channels (with the assistance of exterior amplification) – the corresponding multichannel outputs embrace 4 unbiased subwoofer outs. Denon’s configurable pre-amp mode permits amplification to unused onboard channels to be switched off, ‘to get a clearer sign path for the channels pushed by exterior amplification.’
Out of the field room calibration is delivered by Audyssey’s MultEQ XT32 platform, with the choice of deeper management through the paid-for MultEQ Editor app. Alternatively, AVC-X6800H homeowners should purchase a licence to run Dirac Dwell Room Correction and Dirac Dwell Bass Management.
Denon’s new amp, out there in black or silver end, will hit UK retailers mid-February.
