Hey this is JR, training manager here at Crutchfield, and this is the Denon AVR-X6500H. It is a
beast of a home theater receiver. There are 11 channels of power with 140 watts per channel,
and a ton of connections on the back. So if you like a receiver with enough connections
to really hook up just about anything, this might be perfect for you. Let's talk about all
of the cool ways you can take those 11 channels of power and really put 'em to use. You of course
can set up a nice, full Dolby Atmos system with every speaker powered by the receiver.
That's 7 speakers surrounding you, and for Atmos, speakers up in the ceiling above you.
That's a pretty great surround sound system. If you don't have 11 speakers in your home
theater system, that's okay, you don't have to. You can bi-amp your front speakers, maybe
have a nice large pair of floor-standing speakers that could use a little bit of extra juice.
you can do that. You can also split it up into multiple zones and use some of those channels
to power speakers in other rooms. Let's talk about how this receiver and all of your speakers
can sound really good in whatever room you put it in, and that's because of Audyssey. Audyssey
is a room calibration system built into the Denon, and it's got a lot of Audyssey features,
including Multi EQ 32, so that you can make sure every seat in the house is a sweet spot of
sound. You have dynamic volume, which allows you to sort of even out the sound so that
if you're watching a movie at night and something loud happens in the movie, you don't wake up
the kids upstairs. You'll be able to EQ the room, you'll be able to EQ your sub,
and there's even a sub containment system, which allows a lots of bass to happen in your
home theater room but for it not to escape the room. It actually is smart enough to do
that using the included microphone and the Audyssey software. Of course, this Denon receiver
is completely networkable with either a wired ethernet connection or Wi-Fi, and you can do
some pretty cool things with that. You can get a Denon control app that you can
control the basic functions of the receiver right from your smartphone, but more importantly
you can stream music to it in a couple different ways. The main way you're going to want to
do that is using Denon HEOS, which is Denon's multi-room wireless music system.
They have a lot of HEOS products, including powered speakers and sound bars, you might
have different HEOS products in each room, and each room is a zone. And one of those
zones can be built into this receiver. It has HEOS inside. So right there from a HEOS
app on your phone, you can tell it what song you want to play from just about any streaming
app and in what room you want to play it, and you can play any song you want in this room,
you can play the same song in all your rooms, or you can have different songs playing in each room.
It's a pretty cool system, and it's built into this receiver. In addition to HEOS, you can
also AirPlay songs from your phone or really any audio your phone is playing, you can AirPlay
it if you're using an iPhone. And if you're not, you can always just go Bluetooth. And if
you want to send video out to multiple zones, there are even two separate discrete HDMI
outputs that allow you to send different HDMI sources to different TVs. You might have two
TVs in the same room, or you might have TVs in two different rooms, you can have two different
things playing at the same time all coming from the receiver. Now let's talk about all
of the ways you can get music and movies and audio video stuff into this receiver. There
are a ton of connections back here, including eight HDMI inputs for all of your video sources,
Blu-ray players, gaming console, streaming devices, cable boxes, satellite boxes, and whatever else
you can think of. There's plenty of inputs here. You can even use it with your TV's
HDMI enhanced audio return channel HDMI connection, so if you want to stream stuff using the streaming
apps built into your TV, the audio will play through this receiver. But it doesn't stop
there. There are two component video inputs for some, maybe some old-school component high-definition
video sources, there are a couple composite video inputs so if you really want to go old-school
and plug in that VCR, you'll be able to do that. As for audio, there are two optical
digital inputs and two coaxial digital inputs, and no matter how you want to hook up your
high-end digital audio sources you'll be able to do that. There are seven analog audio inputs,
and that's for all of your analog audio gear like tape decks, CD players, things like that.
There's even one specifically for your turntable. In addition to the 11 channels of powered
speaker outputs, there are also preamp outputs for every channel, so not only can you add
two powered subwoofers, but you can add separate amplifiers for any of the speakers in your
home theater listening room, so that you can add make sure to have the exact right power
for any speaker in your system. So this is the Denon AVR-X6500H. It is a beast of a home
theater receiver with a ton of connections, and if you like that sort of thing this is
the receiver for you. If you have any questions, go ahead and put them in the comments, also while you're here
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