Hey, I'm JR and today we are here to talk about two Marantz home theater
receivers, the SR5014 and the SR6014. Now first off, they're Marantz so we know
that they're built well, they're built to last, the amplifiers are heavy-duty, and
musically very warm, so they have that Marantz sound that we've come to know and
love over the years. The SR5014 is a 7- channel amplifier with 100 watts per
channel, the '6014 adds 2 more channels and 10 more watts per channel, so it's 9
channels at 110 watts. First, let's talk music. Marantz has been making music
sound good in homes for years, and these home theater receivers. they of course do
movies and soundtracks and surround sound, but they are also really good at
making music sound great. They of course do have a phono input for a moving
magnet cartridge on a turntable, there are plenty of digital and analog audio
inputs so you can get your music in using optical or coaxial or analog RCA
connections. Of course, you can Bluetooth your music in from your phone but I
think a lot of people are going to use the built-in HEOS. HEOS is Marantz'
multi-room wireless music system, and it's built into these receivers so that
you can use an app on your phone to control whatever music you want to
listen to, whether it's from a computer on your home network or any of the
streaming sites, Spotify, Pandora. etc., HEOS works with all of those, and you can play
that music and have it sound amazing right here on these receivers. There's
also a USB input that you can load up a whole bunch of high-res music files onto
a USB memory Drive and stick it into this receiver and it will decode those
high-res music files all the way up to 24/192, so if you got some high-res music
you're really going to love playing it on this receiver. And if you do have
anything that's not so high-res, the Marantz digital audio expander, the M-DAX,
is going to take that compressed music and open it up and make it sound big and
beautiful. Now, these are home theater receivers, which means they of course have
built-in Dolby and DTS decoding including all the way up to Dolby Atmos
and DTS:X so you can get your height speakers in your ceiling or
speakers that fire up to give you that sort of overhead surround effects. Both
receivers do come with Audyssey, which is a speaker calibration system, so once you
have all your speakers plugged in and connected you take the included
microphone, you plug it into the front of the receiver, and you let the receiver go
through its paces and play sounds onto your speakers so that it can
acoustically measure your speakers and your room which gives you a lot of power.
Audyssey does a lot of neat stuff once it knows how your room sounds and how
your speakers sound. For example, dynamic EQ, multi-eq xt, and dynamic volume. Both
the SR5014 and the SR6014 features 7.1 channel preamp inputs, in case you
wanted to use an external decoder such as one built into a high-end Blu-ray
player. They also have preamp outputs for all channels, the '5014 has 7.2 preamp
outputs, the '6014 goes all the way to 11.2 preamp outputs. Those allow you
to add external amplifiers for any of the channels in your system as well as
additional power for even more Dolby Atmos or DTS:X speakers. As far as video
inputs go, there are eight HDMI inputs on the back, all of them are 2.0b, capable
of handling very high-definition signals including up to 4K at 60 frames per
second. They do feature the latest High-Definition copyright protection 2.3, and
they can handle all the flavors of high dynamic range or HDR, that's HDR 10, Dolby
Vision and HLG, and if you use the native apps on your TV for streaming
such as Netflix, Amazon, and your TV has enhanced audio return channel, so does
this receiver that means you'll be able to get Dolby Atmos piped back in from
your TV into the receiver. So if you're streaming from your TV, you get the best
surround sound possible. Both of these receivers feature two HDMI outputs. On
the SR5014, both of those outputs are parallel, which means they send out the
same video signal. You can have the video going to two different displays, maybe a
TV on the wall as well as a projector with the screen for movie night. The '6014
HDMI outputs are discrete, which means if you wanted to send two different video
sources to two different displays simultaneously, you can do that with the
SR6014. There's also a neat little feature built
in I don't think a lot of people know about, it's called "video select listen,"
which allows you to listen to one source while watching another source. I'm
thinking, maybe you're watching a football game and you'd rather listen to
an internet radio station with the radio broadcast feed as opposed to the TV
announcers, this receiver will allow you to listen to internet radio stations
from any other audio sources while watching an HDMI source, so it's pretty
cool. Of course the receiver does have
bluetooth for receiving music from a phone, but it also has a Bluetooth
transmitter built in, so if you wanted to say, have a set of Bluetooth headphones
and listen to whatever you're watching on TV from the receiver on your
Bluetooth headphones so you're not disturbing everybody else in the house,
you can certainly do that here as well. In addition to having Bluetooth built in
for receiving music from your phone you can also use this as a Bluetooth
transmitter so if you wanted to watch TV and not have it play on all your
speakers you can throw a pair of bluetooth headphones on and set them up
and pair them with this receiver so that you can listen to whatever you're
watching on TV on your wireless bluetooth headphones. And lastly, these
receivers are completely compatible with Alexa and Google Home, so once you get
music playing if you want to control it, if you want to tell it what songs to
play, you can do all of that by talking to your Alexa or your Google Home. Thank
you so much for watching, that's the Marantz SR5014 and the '6014. If you
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