This is a really helpful review particularly the assessment about the balanced sound, thank you.

Keep up the great videos. Really enjoying your reviews.

I've been a Denon Fan for decades. I sold it, along with Adcom, Rotel, Bryston and Yamaha back in the 90s and early 2000s. I have a Denon PMA 2000R that is running some Dynaudio Audience 72SEs. I have used it to power my Dynaudio Focus 160s as well, with stellar results.

I like the pros and cons on a review, good job 👍

I have no intention of buying this amp but whoa, I have to thank you Z for introducing me to Ten Towers, the music of the intro. Great guitar piece!!

Really appreciate this review - plenty of relevant information with some nice, subjective thoughts mixed in to let us understand where it stands for you and in real world use. Super excited to delve into Denon products!

I like Denon sound signature. Distinctive and not harsh.

I can confirm.. I own Denon PMA-720ae and its a great one. Sound is very balanced and natural comparing to the others.

I really like your view on the tone controls-sometimes they just do the trick

This paired good with my infinity sl-50. Very happy with purchase.

Great work as usual man! That is a sharp looking unit, and looks like good build. I like the back panel, plenty of inputs, and nice layout. Thanks for the "under the hood" look. I like that isolation for the digital circuitry. I looks like it has some really decent internal components, especially for the price point. I have used Denon AVR's for years, and have always had a great experience with them. Thanks for this video, and have a great one man!

with so many rough recordings l, bass and treble controls are invaluable.

Thanks for sharing. I like Denon products, great natural sound and always give good fight to competitors.

This Denon matches great with my Klipsch RP-600Ms! Thanks ZF!

replaced Onkyo Integra M504 and P304 that were starting to age. Deftech Studiomonitor 350s and Energy C2s with a deftech sub, and I am blown away. It punches above its weight and sounds great.

Great review brother I paired it with 8000f sounds great for a newbie audiophile like myself

I have seen one of these units on sale and I must admit, I’m very tempted to go and give it a listen.

That unit reminds me of my first small Arcam integrated amp. Love it. Great entry level!

The matching streamer dac looks like a steal too. classic BB dac and decent price

gave you thumbs up for actually describing what is meant by balance. now i just need to know what do they mean by warm sound, and what is meant by neutral sound. imaging.

Great review Sean. I love your channel. I'd be grateful to hear a review of the Denon pma 1600ne (next model up), since it contains within it a USB DAC (handy to connect direct to a laptop) as well as an on board phono stage.

I have the amp and it runs with the kef q300 speakers. The sound is fine and the features are all there. I paid 340 € and for the price its a good deal.

In one word, I found the Denon to be Mature. Aged like fine wine. For reasons of conflict I settled for the Avr-x3500h as it sounded very close to 800 in 2 channel pure direct mode. Great review as always. Keep up the great work.

Excellent review!

Awesome review! The thing you talked about pure mode and poor recordings is what I also have experienced with my Onkyo A9030 amplifier. Your channel deserves more attentions, more views and more subscribers.👍

Nice series . i own the DCD-720AE CD player . Denon ....nice brand .

Had the 1600ne and it matched very well with the Totem Hawks. A+ combination. It really matches well with the speakers compared to my Hegel H160.

Great review as usual Sean UR Da man ! Your boy Ron never got back to me on my questions on the Parasound Intergrated. Obviously I still bought it and I'm enjoying it quite a bit even without the S400s I believe it was a great investment and will match up well once they arrive. Just for anyone interested including you I hooked up my iMac to the Hint 6 via the usb input and the built in ESS Sabre32 Reference DAC ES9018K2M is pretty sweet. It accepts up to 32 bit 384kHz native DSD & DoP I'm loving my digital library. This bit of info no pun intended on the dac hadn't been reviewed to my knowledge. I was not aware of the Dac's performance. I don't believe Ron in his review of the previous model did a critique in the DAC section. Enough of my rambling, have great day kid and I'm so glad you're back on the job all better. Peace yo.

We should start to see more and more subwoofers (like the svs ones) coming with high level input, so you will get the speaker amps coloring and send it to the subwoofer aswell.

Great review! I've had both Pm5005 and Denon720ae. The Marantz sounded thin, to much treble and no warmth. Denon sounds just great, similar to the what is being said about the 800ne

I went audio shopping with a friend of mine who wanted something nice, but not blow the bank.. We settled on this amp's less featured sibling (same power stage sans the digital input) with the Klipsch RP-600M.. Tbh I didn't know you could get that good a sound for the money.. Great review!

nice amp. it's good to see the wattage compared to some of the lower offerings in integrated amps being released in N.A. these days. seems like all the MFGs are omitting line out, pre out or sub out on most equipment.. Not sure why the engineers don't include these.. Would like to see Onkyo A-9150 review and how it stacks up ..

I wish Denon would import its bigger amps to the U.S. Such as the PMA-2500NE and up.

Three digital inputs. Sounds like my kind of amp!

One of the important questions I would want to know about the amplifier comparison is how to they image in respect to each other? Transparency? Tonal characteristics are definitely important, but the comparison is just a bit of an incomplete picture.

Thx for the review. Looks like a good little unit but no ethernet jack = deal breaker for me.

“Let’s be Honest here” 😂😂 I hope so... Great thoughts as usual.. Thanks,, love my Denon 5803 & oldie but goody DVD 955 (2950),, especially when the 955 is hooked up to Ray Samuels Raptor & HD 800’s.. The WoW factor 👍 Best2You...

The balance and flat sounding description... well that helped me to decide. Many people like warm sounds, but when a person's speaker is warm, that it's going to be a mismatch. What is not clear is the soundstage of this piece as well as the clarity and openness. I'm happy to know that you like tone controls; that's my main criteria for a good preamp of integrated amp. Not all music comes in perfect recording, and if you can't adjust it to your taste after spending $$$ or if you have to get a hernia unplugging and replugging in different speakers and gears... Sigh it's really an anti-climax and frankly very very tedious. And again, thank you Sean so much for doing what you do. You are dangerous, your mention of the Onkyo - well, it's on it's way to my home. One of my trips to the U.S. well, I hope I can route it to your home - one day.

I just got the Denon PMA 1600ne which l like alot. I had the Cambridge cxa81 for a week and the treble was too forward for me. This Denon sounds so much better in sound,looks and the DAC is better for connecting TuneIn music from my TV thru the optical port then the Cxa81.

good stuff.. thank you

Thank You, I replaced NAD class D with Denon 600 NE and sound quality is awesome. Will never buy class D amp in my life.

Wonder if this amp will sound good on a pair of Definitive Technology Demand 9 bookshelf speakers? Thanks for the review!

Denon have just released the PMA-600NE integrated amp, cheaper than the 800NE but it has a subwoofer out - a feature missing from the 800NE. 600NE has one less optical in, Phono is MM only and caters for one pair of speakers rather than the two in the 800NE and is 70W in 4ohms (compared to 85W )

Good review.

Good review....I am waiting on my new PMA 600NE....same Amp...just a little less power...55WPC 6ohms. which I'm going to pair with some ELAC debut 2.0 / 6.2 speakers

Thanks for this. Would love your take Dennon's high-end PMA-SX11.

Great review as always. Now those large capacitors that you refer to do ultimately have an influence on how much current and how much output power this amp will put out! But those are not output capacitors, they are power supply filter capacitors. Think of them as storage tanks for electrons!

they have a new model pma-600ne / 45 watts at 8 ohms , two speaker output but have an sub out and have bluetooth and the best part is only $399.00 !!! that’s the price that i was waiting for !

I have one of this. Very nice amplifier

I see (from the shadows on the wall) you move your hands even when the camera is not set on you lol Thank you for your review.

I paired my PMA800NE to a pair of Maggies LRS (with subwoofer). I love the sound in an apartment, but my neighbors may disagree. This is my entry level setup while saving for a "real system". Enjoy the music-- NOT the Gear!

Nice watch!

Hope you review the Denon PMA-A110 amp . Thanks

I rock the 600ne an think it's fine turned 30per an it's loud an clear

Run it off of 240 volts 60HZ if it is switchable from 120 volts 60 HZ. If you heard that on 250 50 hz overseas in like say France. 240 volts 60 HZ wakes things up big time. Some are only switchable inside. Depends on brand and models

you get the right speakers for these modest amps & they will suprise you The marantiz I say at a guess will be good for the club tipe " electronic " DENON ? Radio broadcast tipe of sound

Nice review. Always liked Denon. The Marantz is definitely better looking.

Also the no sub output is no big deal. As a lot of audio experts would agree the best way to hook up a sub in a two channel stereo setup is to connect the sub to the speaker outputs in parallel with the main speakers. Since the input impedance is very high in a subwoofers hi level speaker input it doesnt load down and draw any power from the amplifier. In this way it allows the subwoofer to take of the sound characteristics of the amp itself!

Great video ! Yamaha receiver RS700 ? Came out a few years ago. Any opinion on this one ?

I appreciate your approach, who is this for, what's typical at the price point.... early Denons had a nice warm sound but lacked a beautiful midrage. It took me years of listening and swapping gear to learn to hear that. There is something attractive about a basic integrated. Maybe less beautiful sound but less expensive and demanding of my time, if that makes sense.

How does it compare to the iotavx integrated amplifier?

Heard the little brother pma600 on Polk legend l200 and it was great match if you're into the sound. I'm not sure it's for me, but I have klipsch rp600m and rp280f floorstanders that I'm struggling to pair with a Cambridge and a NAD that are possibly too bright for those speakers. The denon would probably fit perfectly in a lot of respects, I just hope I don't give up too much of the separation in the highs that the klipsch can do well.

The model below is 400 USD and is very good

What was the piano music just before the “final thoughts”?

I had an old school denon integrated that had a lot more balls than similar integrateds near it's price. They had beefy power trains since the 80's at least.

I had the Denon PMA800NE hooked up to my Klipsch RP600M and it was a great match. Now the Denon is paired with KEF Q-150`s and a REL t-zero sub in a small room (10 X 12) and it sounds pretty damn good. Actually the Denon 800 series including the CD player and network player works very well and like ZF mentioned in this review, pairs very well with a wide variety of speakers.

I'd be interested in a comparison against an Audiolab 6000A.

In the 90s and early 2000's things were the other way around. At that price point the Marantz would be the more 'neutral' and balanced sounding amp compared to the Denon. I have experienced this myself when I bought my Marantz PM7200 (which I still own) Its competitor, the slightly more expensive Denon PMA 1500MKII was more bassy and trebly, at the expense of a clear midrange. The Denons in the budget and mid price range always were more powerful than the Marantzs, better at driving more difficult speakers. This still is the case I think. But Marantz then already went a bit further in the high-end with their product line than Denon did.

I have a monster Denon PMA 1080R its fabulous never thought of upgrading it. It has a great Phono stage MM/MC and sounds wonderful with A Denon 103R, rest of my system Ariston RD11S with an Infinity Black widow tonearm with damping through the Denon cart mentioned a fully restored Denon DCD 1420 Cd, and last but not least, Three way DIY open baffles speakers. All components have dedicated power cords and Furutech iec sockets. Speaker cable Transparent the wave 200. Pure Heaven. Did you try the phono stage on the 800ne? Great vid by the way.

Hey Sean, saw this review last night. That is a very interesting piece for $500 from Denon. One thing I did not expect is the ability to shut off the unused inputs such as digital, not for $500. While Denon and Marantz are both under the umbrella of DM Holdings it looks like Denon borrowed from Marantz on that one. My Marantz ND8006 has that feature and more, but it is also about twice the price and it is source as opposed to amp. I can see how easy it would be to recommend that Denon to someone for either a stop over while saving for something on a higher rung or to simply fulfill a need. What is also interesting is the native signature sound difference between the two. I would have thought the Marantz to best the Denon, but it seems the other way around in this case. I am one who prefers a balanced sound. That said, I strongly suspect that as one moves up the Marantz chain it would be a different story with Marantz out-performing Denon. (Two different build philosophies in the upper levels). Of course, then we are talking about products with cost where one would be better served procuring a dealer rather than going through a Best Buy or something. Yes, then there are speakers with some pairing better for one or the other. Yes, ones such as Paradigm and Revel would go well with the Marantz and likely allow to tame the signature sound to balance. I know my Paradigms, which happen to be the Studio 100 V5 would do well, then again, they do well with almost anything! (The discontinued studio line from Paradigm are not tilted, in fact, they are extremely efficient and balanced, not to mention revealing. As for the Monitor line and new more expensive lines….all I can say, is what the heck happened? Talk about tilted)! I digress..

I have 1981 Bang and Olufsen Beovox S80 would one of these amps be a good match?

please Denon add loudness and a sub out !!!

Hi I've got the 600 it fabulous for the money Evo 44s and reloop RP 7000mk2 with a shibater stylus

Two things: 1. I like the way you think. 2. Yeah, forget sound clips. No calibration.

marantz pm6006 has noise on optical ports when volume is above 40%, tons of ppl with same issue.

im curious witch denon eu model u mean that you liked so much . do you mean the denon pma-720ae ? i wanna pear it up with the jamo s803 but i realy wanna maintain the boosted character .will the marantz better for that?

to me, denon is like the "cerwin vega" of amplifiers. i had both :)

Great review! Did you have anytime to assess the quality of the digital portion this amp?

Could you please name the model of Denon you've heard, that was not imported in the US?

Hi, beautiful video, analytic review and easy to follow for a common music lover. I would like to ask your opinion, for 500$ what you would u suggest a second hand Rotel RA1520(silver) or brand new denon pm800? (Speakers: b&w 602 s2)...music preference rock metal, mostly. Format vinyl and Cds. Thank you

After all the favorable reviews I've ordered this. Should be arriving 22 settember.I'll give my review after the "warmup" period.

Would this have enough power for wharfedale diamond 10.7 towers?

I have a pair of vintage KLH 17's. Would this be a good match?

Can you please tell me which amp would be a better match with PSB Alpha T20 speakers, the Denon or the Marantz? Thanks.

Does it have a tape loop monitor so u can hookup a 24 band eq ?

Good evening from greece to all of you. To which marantz does this amplifier compare to? Is it Better than 5005 from marantz? Sorry for a silly question

Hi, can you do a review on the Technics SU - V40 amplifier? I know it's an old amplifier, but I am interested to hear your opinion on it. Thanks.

Can you also test stuff like network streamers? The latest Denon network streamer looks pretty nice.

How would compare/preferred between Cambridge axr100 vs denon pma 800ne? I have focal chora 826 for music listening only! I would highly appreciate your input!

can you review the new cheaper model ? pma 600 ne $399

Could you review the new Denon DRA-800H receiver to see how it stacks up to the Denon PMA800NE integrated amp.

How about a combo of triangle br03 with either marantz or denon? Which one is the best combo in your opinion?

Please explain why warmth in the mid-range from an iron core transformer??

Do you think this would mate well, with the Lsi m703's??

Hey, I am looking to have ELAC Debut 6.2, and need an integrated amp for it. Eyeing Marantz PM6006 or the Denon PMA 600NE, or any other option under 600USD. I hope you can help, which would be better. I hear a lot of progressive rock and jazz. Thanks

Man I had my eye on the PMA-2500NE, and after seeing this review I wish the 2500NE could drive a pair of Infinity renaissance 90.

i am looking for an amplifier for my record player (pro-ject debut carbon esprit dc hg). Would you recommend the Denon PMA800NE?

How do these compare to the Yamaha A-S801 homey? What is the primary sonic difference between the Denon and Yamaha? (for someone who's always been a Yamaha man)

Are you using car Jumper cables for speaker wires into hay intro? Certainly looks like it

I got the 600 great amp👍