Direct, Pure Direct & Stereo with Audyssey by-pass

[Thomas_A]

No, analog.

Denon AVR-X3700H AVR Review

This is a review and detailed measurements of Denon AVR-X3700H 9.2 channel 8K Home Theater AV Receiver (AVR). It is kindly loaned to me by a local member and costs US $1,199. Visually, if you have seen one AVR, you have seen the look of the AVR-X3700H: The input selector is plastic and...

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AVR Amplifier Measurements

Maybe a typo then?

 

[peng]

Maybe a typo then?

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Oh yes, I missed that typo, you have sharp eyes.

 

[Thomas_A]

Reading about it more it "should be" analogue pass through as long as the L/R speakers are set to large and/or direct mode. Having speakers set to large and LFE+main would copy the bass to the subs, but then you are relying on having a 24 dB acoustic slope of the mains to integrate with the sub (otherwise "double bass"). To activate the 12 db/octave filter on the mains (i.e small speaker setting) to fit a 12 dB acoustical slope means you need to go through the ADC/DAC/DSP. The same should be the case if you activate Audyssey or any other processing mode when L/R is set to large.

I think the descriptions from Marantz/Denon are quite poor regarding the above.