Marantz SR8002 AV Amplifier

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

Marantz has just announced its latest AV amplifier with model name “SR8002″ yesterday. This 7.1-CH amplifier comes with 2 remote controls (main and simple) and corresponds to the up-to-date audio format of Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio. It features rated output of SR8002 125W×7ch (8 ?), HDMI and supports Dolby digital + (DD+), decoding Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD Master Audio and DTS-HD High Resolution Audio. You should be seeing this one hit shelves in the middle of November for ¥148,000. More specs after the jump…

Specifications

THX Select2 certified Current Feedback AV-Receiver delivering 7 x 125 watts RMS
Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, DTS HD & 71. Multichannel PCM for HD Audio
32-bit DSP with THX Surround EX, DD-EX, DTE-ES, DTS96/24, CSII and DLP IIx
Audio enhancer for all compressed audio formats such as MP3, WAV, AAC etc
Neural Surround, Dolby Headphones, Dolby Virtual Speaker II
Room Acoustic Calibration with EQ by Audyssey for one touch speaker set-up
Four HDMI 1.3 input for digital audio & video including deep colour support
Two HDMI 1.3 output direct selectable via remote or RS232
High grade video conversion with line memory up to HDMI level
Huge Toroidal transformer with shielding for instant current delivery capacity
Copper plated chassis for lowest impedance grounding at any point
Customized components for best sound performance in stereo & multichannel
Two independant Zones for multi room/multi source audio & video (1x up to component level)
RC101 for multi room use or as simple remote for main room
Surround Back speaker for multi room assignable
Speaker C function for real bi-amping of front channel in 5.1 set-up
Pure direct mode and Video off mode for best analogue sound
Sound delay function to sync audio and video
RS232c port, Flasher in, IR Flasher out, IR Receiver in & DC triggers for system integration
RC8001SR learnable system remote control with macro functions and backlist
Image shown is of SR8001, SR8002 image to follow!