JVC RX-DP20V 7.1 Channels Receiver
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- Surround Sound: DTS® DTS ES® THX EX® Dolby Pro Logic II
- THX Certification: Ultra
- Number of Channels: 7.1 Channels
- Type: Receiver
- Surround Mode Power: 120 Watt @ 8 ohm, 20 Hz - 20 kHz, THD: 0.02%
- Stereo Mode Power: 120 Watt @ 8 ohm, 20 Hz - 20 kHz, THD: 0.02%
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Great receiver, ample power, excellent price
Pros
Great sound detail. Complete format compatibility. THX Ultra 2
Cons
Electronic front panel is very weird looking when opened.
Recommended it?
Yes
The Bottom Line:
This is a great receiver. JVC's digital expertise shines all over it. The price is the strong point. Format compatibility is a plus. And the performance is top notch.
I am probably the first one on the net to review this unit. But I am sure that many of you out there have been tracking it and trying to find out more about it.
I got one directly from JVC today.
UPS dropped it off this morning. It is a heavy one, 52lbs. It is not as heavy as the Pioneer Elite VSX-49TX or the Denon AVR-5800 I previously tested out, weighed in at 62lbs and 65lbs. Getting used to the exercise of moving the other two around, the JVC is a piece cake, but still get me sweat a little bit in a hot humid day like today.
Fist open the box, my impression is simple. The packaging and parts are lay out as clear and simple as possible. There is one plastic packaging and the unit. Unlike the other two models' box other box, packaging other packaging, it is very environmentally friendly.
Fist look at metal front panal, it is very elegant and simple. There are only seven buttons and one turning knob. Interestingly enough, the panel door operation took up 2 of the 7 buttons. It is a little bit too much. The setup is fast and easy. And the inputs are gold plated and easily lay out. One very valuable feature that is not listed in the specs on most of the JVC sites, There is a DVD Multi input plus an external 7.1 channel in. It is no big deal for people only interest in 2-channel music and movie. But it make a lot of sense for crazy audiophile like me who like both SACD and DVD-Audio unless you have an universal player like the Onkyo DV-SP800 I have on hand. The Denon AVR-5800, AVR-5803 and the Sony D7ES all have such feature as well. Another one, the unit convert everything video into component for you for easy hookup just like the AVR-5803. The speaker terminals are all multi-post. somewhat clusterly located on the left of the unit. I don't like it but it is not bad enough to make me start critizing.
Skip to the remote, the JVC beige color remote is big and long, but it is probably the best remote I ever used. First of all, I hate touch-screen remote. It gets dirty easy. It is even bigger. The JVC remote on the other hand is comfortable, fully backlit when you press the light button on the bottom and come with a LCD display is just big enough for me. Bravo. Also, the buttons are located nicely, and they feel comfortably nice.
First up, I hook my old Denon DCM-370 to the unit's digital input. The Denon is my beloved utility CD player. It has top notch performance of a high end unit. Best of all, it is also a changer. I put in Sinatra's September of My Years. Old blue eye's voice sounded convincingly real and powerful, and yet lovely. The strings are airy and sounded very detailed. I did noticed a little bit of kick in the upper end at very loud level. I will check more when the unit is burned in a lttle longer. Overall, 2 channel CD sounded great doesn't matter what kind of materials I fed to the unit. It might not sounded as powerful and airy as the Denon 5800/5803, or as warm and spacious as the Pioneer, but at 120W and half the price, the JVC sounded more detailed and accurate even with the CC (compensative Compression) converter off. Thanks to JVC's own K2 technology, digital music sounded better than ever before.
Next up, I hook the Onkyo SACD/DVD-A player up using the 7.1 input. Surround music is slowly becoming my favorite. I listen to both SACD and DVD Audio. They all sounded excellent on the unit. One thing I noticed is that the JVC has the most complete bass management of all receiver I ever tested. It works for both digital and analog domains. With the Ext. 7.1, you bypass the internal bass management if you choose the one in your outbound decoder or player. You can set delay', distance and levels for all channels. Impressive.
Last stop, I pop in the new Bond movie, "Die Another Day".
Like most of the receivers out there, the unit sounded excellent in THX EX, DD, DTS and DP II. The JVC are especially so thanks to its new TI 64bit DSP chip which is so fast that the digital effect proccessing is superb if not perfect. After a little, I am just enjoying watching 007 in action rather than being critical about the unit.
I got one directly from JVC today.
UPS dropped it off this morning. It is a heavy one, 52lbs. It is not as heavy as the Pioneer Elite VSX-49TX or the Denon AVR-5800 I previously tested out, weighed in at 62lbs and 65lbs. Getting used to the exercise of moving the other two around, the JVC is a piece cake, but still get me sweat a little bit in a hot humid day like today.
Fist open the box, my impression is simple. The packaging and parts are lay out as clear and simple as possible. There is one plastic packaging and the unit. Unlike the other two models' box other box, packaging other packaging, it is very environmentally friendly.
Fist look at metal front panal, it is very elegant and simple. There are only seven buttons and one turning knob. Interestingly enough, the panel door operation took up 2 of the 7 buttons. It is a little bit too much. The setup is fast and easy. And the inputs are gold plated and easily lay out. One very valuable feature that is not listed in the specs on most of the JVC sites, There is a DVD Multi input plus an external 7.1 channel in. It is no big deal for people only interest in 2-channel music and movie. But it make a lot of sense for crazy audiophile like me who like both SACD and DVD-Audio unless you have an universal player like the Onkyo DV-SP800 I have on hand. The Denon AVR-5800, AVR-5803 and the Sony D7ES all have such feature as well. Another one, the unit convert everything video into component for you for easy hookup just like the AVR-5803. The speaker terminals are all multi-post. somewhat clusterly located on the left of the unit. I don't like it but it is not bad enough to make me start critizing.
Skip to the remote, the JVC beige color remote is big and long, but it is probably the best remote I ever used. First of all, I hate touch-screen remote. It gets dirty easy. It is even bigger. The JVC remote on the other hand is comfortable, fully backlit when you press the light button on the bottom and come with a LCD display is just big enough for me. Bravo. Also, the buttons are located nicely, and they feel comfortably nice.
First up, I hook my old Denon DCM-370 to the unit's digital input. The Denon is my beloved utility CD player. It has top notch performance of a high end unit. Best of all, it is also a changer. I put in Sinatra's September of My Years. Old blue eye's voice sounded convincingly real and powerful, and yet lovely. The strings are airy and sounded very detailed. I did noticed a little bit of kick in the upper end at very loud level. I will check more when the unit is burned in a lttle longer. Overall, 2 channel CD sounded great doesn't matter what kind of materials I fed to the unit. It might not sounded as powerful and airy as the Denon 5800/5803, or as warm and spacious as the Pioneer, but at 120W and half the price, the JVC sounded more detailed and accurate even with the CC (compensative Compression) converter off. Thanks to JVC's own K2 technology, digital music sounded better than ever before.
Next up, I hook the Onkyo SACD/DVD-A player up using the 7.1 input. Surround music is slowly becoming my favorite. I listen to both SACD and DVD Audio. They all sounded excellent on the unit. One thing I noticed is that the JVC has the most complete bass management of all receiver I ever tested. It works for both digital and analog domains. With the Ext. 7.1, you bypass the internal bass management if you choose the one in your outbound decoder or player. You can set delay', distance and levels for all channels. Impressive.
Last stop, I pop in the new Bond movie, "Die Another Day".
Like most of the receivers out there, the unit sounded excellent in THX EX, DD, DTS and DP II. The JVC are especially so thanks to its new TI 64bit DSP chip which is so fast that the digital effect proccessing is superb if not perfect. After a little, I am just enjoying watching 007 in action rather than being critical about the unit.
