isiolia wrote:Jagosaurus wrote:Sounds like we have 2 Denon units acting up reported on this thread before my post here. Is this normal of receivers?
To a point, I think it depends on where you look, since obviously looking at support type topics/threads will tend to show people having problems
That said, I do think that HDMI-era audio gear tends to be quirkier - both because of dealing with a fairly-quickly upgraded, copy-protected A/V path, and because of the sheer amount of tech that tends to get crammed into them these days. Typically, audio gear lasts quite a while - I've owned A/V receivers for over twenty years, and in that time (until today anyway) owned a grand total of three, which were upgraded for features, not because they failed. (I bought a particularly cheap open box one today for my PC, so that'd be a fourth I guess). The only one that ended up breaking was due to my brother borrowing it and blowing the amps running low ohm speakers on it
While I have had oddities with my (~9 year old) Denon in the living room, the only thing on it that actually doesn't work is one of the RCA audio jacks...which I only ever used for the Wii anyway, so I just moved it to a different set.
Rest of my family has pretty much the same story...other than my one brother who destroyed at least one other one in a similar fashion.
Still, I think far more often that gear gets replaced to support newer/better formats than actual failure. Which isn't to say that it
doesn't fail, or that you couldn't find relatively common failures for particular model years (HDMI boards on some Onkyos for instance)...but in general, it lasts.
marurun wrote:5.1 audio decoding and other digital functions really screwed with audio receiver longevity. The best receivers are classic stereo ones. You can't really count on a modern receiver to last you a lifetime.
Thanks, gentlemen. It's good to know I'm not crazy, but sad that's the lifespan. I'm not one to upgrade quickly to something like 4K or a new surround audio or something. This thing is probably overpowered for what it's used for upstairs. The more expensive one is downstairs and hopefully holds up better (it's actually a year older too).
I wonder if quantity of use on a certain input makes a difference. A lot of my downstairs usage is pure HDMI so it gets a lot less conversation activity.
I actually have to figure out how to get my component to show up through the receiver downstairs now that I have my HDRetrovision cables -- I've just been plugging them directly into the TV for now...
