Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler Denon 2200 on sale at ecost

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2061 Registered User(s). Welcome to our newest member, Ray3sWife!

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You're in trouble now, Ray!

Bren R.

WOOHOO!!! I'm getting mine tomorrow too. They tried delivering it this evening but no one was home. *GRRRR*

You have no idea...

I got my 2200 and set it up tonight. My first impressions are as follows...

Much better bass when listening to SACD's and DVDA's...this may be a calibration issue, however.

PQ is awesome...I've been watching "The Fifth Element" Superbit DVD, and I do not remember ever seeing something so lovely on my TV

There is an annoying distortion in the center channel as I watch above DVD...Yet to see if this is present on other discs as well.

Mark

Mark, as this was a refurb unit from an etailer, it might be worthwhile to share info like how it was to deal with them, the condition of the unit from a cosmetic perspective, the packing, etc. Any other upside/downside you think of. I expect some folks are squeamish about this kind of purchase and the details might help them decide if the $$ savings are worth the risk. I had a good experience with ecost on a Denon DVM-4800 and will go this route again.

The e-cost experience was very good. They originally said that the units would not be in stock until April 12, but when I checked on my order status on the 7th, I found that the unit had already shipped, and was to be delivered the next day.

The unit arrived in what looked like the original factory packaging, which appeared to have been opened and taped back up. Stamped on the carton was a notice that it was a B-stock unit, and had a 90 day warrantee.

Inside the box were the player, wrapped in a plastic bag, in intact styrofoam holders, and the usual packet containing the remote, manual, cables, and batteries. The unit has no cosmetic blemishes that I can detect, other than some of what appears to be a little adhesive (residue from tape?) on the top of the unit. So far, it works as it should.

The unit is guaranteed for 90 days, an extra 1 year of protection is available for about $30. My thinking is that if the unit is going to fail, it will probably do it immediately, so I am mostly interested in protection from a DOA, and I passed on the extended warrantee.

I would not hestiate to buy from them again. Last I checked, they had 2900's for about $500, and 5900's for about $1000.

Mark

Mark,

I've found that just about any of the "orange" cleaners work great in taking off adhesives. Ask the Mrs. to pick up a bottle of orange Fantastic next time shes shopping (unless of course, you do the shopping). A little shot of that on a paper towel should fix you right up.

Thanks. I was going to ignore it, as it is not visible with the player in my rack, but I'll keep the orange cleaner thing in mind.

MArk

I guess that I should chime in and give another thumbs up to eCost. The 2200 was very well packaged and I could only find one tiny nick on the faceplate. You have to be about 5" from the unit so I'll never notice it. My only frustration was getting the darn thing to send a signal to the sub. I had all the speakers set to "Large" and sub set to "Yes" which sounds correct, but NO. I had to set Filter to On and also set Bass Enhancement to On and them boom boom. I'd like to strangle the moron who came up with those EXTREMELY redundent settings. Just can't keep it simple can they? Anyway, I'm listening to my 2200 right now and it sounds great and the picture is just as good. There's my $.02

Have you thrown in the "In Absentia" DVD-A yet? My son now has all his friends listening to Porcupine Tree. I love my rep as the dad with the cool musical tastes.

I am also using my 2200 right now (LOTR:TTT), and it looks and sounds great

Mark