Help choosing a Denon AVR X3600h or a Leak 230 for stereo listening?

[funkera91]

Dear colleagues, I have a dilemma!

Which one is better for listening to music?
Denon AVR X3600h - ( which I own at the moment ) https://manuals.denon.com/AVRX3600h/NA/EN/GFNFSYbsjxinov.php
Leak 230 - About to buy. https://www.leak-hifi.co.uk/stereo230/

Should I buy it, or the differecne would not be big for stereo listening to music?
If DAC matters:
AK4458VN DAC on DENON X3600h
ES909038Q2M DAC on LEAK 230

Thanks!
Every opinion matters!!!

 

[Rednaxela]

Do you feel there is absolutely nothing left to get out of your Denon’s processing power?

If not I’d keep the money and instead invest all your available time and energy there.

Hope this helps!

 

[funkera91]

Do you feel there is absolutely nothing left to get out of your Denon’s processing power?

If not I’d keep the money and instead invest all your available time and energy there.

Hope this helps!

I really dont know if I squeezed the best out of it, just I am not sure that the other AMP would not be much better, as I do not have chance to hear it. But everyone says that it is amazing the LEAK 230 and that DEnon is AVR and not good for stereo listening.

 

[Rednaxela]

But everyone says that it is amazing the LEAK 230 and that DEnon is AVR and not good for stereo listening.

Not here.

At ASR people say: get a measurement microphone, learn to use REW, take in-room measurements, look for or generate spinorama data of your speakers, understand how the two fit together, develop an effective EQ strategy, apply it and fine tune to your liking. Don't forget to look into Dynamic EQ and optionally in the future a subwoofer or two.

With your AVR, the Audyssey MultEQ Editor app, MultEQ-X or @OCA's work, you have basically everything it takes to do all of that. Certainly not so with the Leak.

From my own experience I can tell you that embarking on such a journey would be the best audio gift you can give yourself. You may in the end still long for something other than your AVR, nobody knows. You may even still long for the Leak. But whatever the reason, it won't be because it's better for stereo listening.

Sorry for the ramble. Hope it helps anyway.

 

[funkera91]

Not here.

At ASR people say: get a measurement microphone, learn to use REW, take in-room measurements, look for or generate spinorama data of your speakers, understand how the two fit together, develop an effective EQ strategy, apply it and fine tune to your liking. Don't forget to look into Dynamic EQ and optionally in the future a subwoofer or two.

With your AVR, the Audyssey MultEQ Editor app, MultEQ-X or @OCA's work, you have basically everything it takes to do all of that. Certainly not so with the Leak.

From my own experience I can tell you that embarking on such a journey would be the best audio gift you can give yourself. You may in the end still long for something other than your AVR, nobody knows. You may even still long for the Leak. But whatever the reason, it won't be because it's better for stereo listening.

Sorry for the ramble. Hope it helps anyway.

Thanks man, I have to learn how to use that A1 Multi EQ and see the differences. May be that Denon x3600h is not that bad in the end. Just everyone arround me says that AVR is for cinema and they are not that good for music listening, but I have never tried AMP at home. Always I have been wit AVR's - Yamaha RX V2500 for 12 years and now Denon X3600h from a year.