Denon AVR-X3000 IN-Command 7.2-Channel 4K Ultra HD Networking Home Theater Receiver with AirPlay and Streaming Capability (Discontinued by Manufacturer)

Overall I'm happy with this receiver. Great product and even better price. However, I've had the following issues (hense the 3 stars for now):1. While watching a movie the picture was jittery... very noticable during slow moving parts of the movie. Like frames in the picture were being skipped. After watching the entire movie that way (very frustrating) I powered off the unit (standby) and powered back on - the picture returned to normal. Not sure why I didn't try that before watching the whole movie. And it wasn't just the movie... switched to regular TV to test and was doing the same. I installed new HDMI cables and thought perhaps it was those, but it had to be something in the receiver.2. The internet radio is awesome... when it works. For some reason mine was stuck on Spotify and while I could change the sound to another station, the display on the receiver showed Spotify and the last song I was playing. The display on the TV was also fuzzy during this time. A complete power down (unplug from outlet) seemed to do the trick to reset whatever was wrong here.So far those are the only issues I've had with the receiver. Love the sound and the iPad control. I have a Sonos bridge near the receiver which doubles as a Sonos extender and as a connection via ethernet to the receiver in order to have internet capabilities. The Sonos bridge is wirelessly connecting to my router and it works great as a wireless extender. Yep... that's right for those that have Sonos - it works!I will update to more stars if items 1 and 2 above do not happen in the near future.11/16/2014 update: Moved to 4 stars (from 3). Have not had the jittery movie experience since that one time. Will update again after giving the network function some additional time to correct some issues...1/14/2015 update: Still having network issues. I do not have this plugged directly into my switch/router but am using the Sonos device to make that connection. I've changed the Sonos device to a Sonos Connect and run my Sonos app through my home theater - excellent setup. So... I hardly even use the network funtionality any more except to control the device through my iPad - volume mostly. I guess it's not a huge deal, but the app has difficulty finding the Denon at times and then I need to unplug the Denon from power and reconnect - then it works for a week or so. I called Denon and in order for them to assist more, I need to plug the network connection directly into my router - which obviously complicates things since my router is nowhere near my receiver. Ahh... the challenge of not getting a bult-in wifi unit. Lowering back to 3 stars since this functionality is a flaw/defect of the unit, since my Sonos remains connected at all times with no trouble connecting to my wifi network. In fact, my Sonos Connect also provides network connectivity to my TV - absolutly no issues with the TV network connecting using this method... only with Denon.

I bought this receiver because I wanted a new receiver with HDMI inputs, and the Denon has 6 rear HDMI inputs (there is a 7th on the front panel). Setup was easy and the automatic speaker frequency adjustment worked well. If you want a receiver for one room and don’t care about other features like reading memory cards, then this is a great receiver.Unfortunately there are some problems with using this receiver with zone 2 and some of the extended features.Zone 2 – appears to have documented bugs. I was hoping to use this receiver to bring audio to our kitchen so I could listen to music or news while preparing meals. If I set the second room source to the same input as the main source, no signal went to the second source. The note in the manual says the following: “If you select a same input source for MAIN ZONE and ZONE2, audio playback may be restricted.” I did find a work around (toggle second source to another source and then back again), but this feels more like a bug that Denon decided not to fix. Having the main and zone 2 sources be the same seems like a common configuration that should be supported properly. Note also that the main source always reverts to 2 channel stereo when zone 2 is set to the same source.If you use HDMI for zone 2 to connect to a second TV or monitor, note that Denon does not provide for any conversion of non HDMI audio sources, so if you have a DVD player or set top box where the audio is connected via TOSLINK or analog, you won’t get any sound in the zone 2. I found this to be a rather surprising and severe limitation for zone 2, which essentially makes it unusable for me.USB – I tried to view JPEG pictures on a USB card I plugged in to the front panel. Unfortunately, unless they have a 16:9 aspect ratio, they end up distorted. I regard this as a bug. Also, Denon only recognizes FAT formating, and will not work with an exFAT device. My audio files with album art also did not play – I found this note in the appendix “If the image size (pixels) of an album artwork exceeds 500 × 500 (WMA/MP3/WAV/FLAC) or 349 × 349 (MPEG-4 AAC), then music may not be played back properly.”No switched power outlet –Apparently Denon expects everyone to have a newer subwoofer that automatically powers down when no signal is received. This may be a minor issue, as I’ve noticed that my sub woofer uses only 11 watts when not playing music. Still, it would be nice to have a switched power outlet.No easy way to re-label the remote if you rename inputs. If you are using all 6 HDMI inputs, it seems unlikely that the default names will make sense for all inputs. Fortunately you can rename any of the inputs, but there is no overlay for the remote, so you are stuck trying to come up with a way to remember that “GAME” is really APPLE TV and AUX is your PC.

Small room my monitor audios are cranked to 8 to get volume- I know Monitor audios are inefficient and so so -my reference music system is a rogue audio with revel speakers in living room , but for avr this lacking.Mainly too few inputs the analogue inputs do not show p on the screen so few inputs I am lacking inputs hooked p airplay no input for sonos, no input for Nakamichi cassette no phono input and while sound is so so it is always too bass heavy- as well no matter how I try getting the rca inputs just doesn't work well for example there is an Aux input and it will not show up on the screen display, when just starting up video a sometimes it takes forever to find the source, look I'm no expert and am mostly analogue I hope I can review again with better results but in the moment it needs more power and more inputs on the analogue side it took 3 days to get my CD player to play through unit,At least get the x4000 or go somewhere else.Edited 4-7-2015 using this as a 5-1 the channels are now haywire - most TV signal and movies come 80% through center channel sometimes backs ard super loud- my local sterio vendor no longer carries Denon - call backs and fail lkke mine were endemic- I love my Rogue audio for music, but for video the Yami RXV 677 sens to be the one to upscale to 4k and offer AirPlay and wireless . Denon seems to be done due to repair issues-

I've been using it for more than a year and it work very well but it tends to overheat when using the 2 zones at the ame time with high level. I had to put a fan on side of it in order for the avr to not stop working.

now we talking business...should of gotten the 4000, love it like my one little boy hahha