Marantz DV 6400

howie777
howie777 Posts: 357
edited April 2004 in Electronics
I just purchased the Marantz DV 6400 Universal DVD player yesterday. It is replacing my Denon DVM 4800 which died for the second time Saturday. Of couse now it is no longer under warrenty so I decided to replace it as I never really liked it anyway.

I have not had much time to play with the DVD player, but It does play SACD and DVD Audio so I'm happy about that. I have read a review that says it has bass management for both DVD-A and SACD but the dealer said to not believe it so I will have to see.

As for the video section, everything looks good to me. I'm going to see if the chroma bug exists but I did not notice any issues yesterday but I wasn't looking for it either.

The audio section sounds much better than the Denon did. Especially with Band of Brothers DVD. I still need to figure out how to set it all up as there was little bass during both DVDs, and SACD (Have not tried DVD-A yet). I was told to use the 2 ch SACD for the best sound but if you do you get zero out of the bass channel and my speakers are not ment for sub 80 Hz so 2 ch basically is worthless for me. My sub only has the single RCA connection so I can't pass the front 2 to my sub the to the mains either.

Overall it seems to be a great player, espeically for the audio section. I'm going to miss the 5 disc drawer of the Denon but apparnetly 5 disc changers for DVD are not selling well at all.

Howie
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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 11,060
    edited April 2004
    I have the dv 4200 the lil bro of yours. I just got it last week and it is truly amazing. The sound is better than ever the picture is stunning. Using AR svideo and Monster co-ax. the set up menu on mine does not have bass management but thats what the receiver is for. I have a yammie receiver and I didnt even have to programm the remote to controle the dvd player...sweet !!
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  • therockman
    therockman Posts: 349
    edited April 2004
    Willow, If you are running just a cheap S-video cable (instead of the much better component video cables), then isn't that DVD player overkill, (a lot of potential justing going to waste)? And if you are only running a Monster co-ax cable for sound, then I guess that you aren't ever planning on listening to any high-rez audio discs, (because yo are going to need some RCA style analog cables). It sounds like you have the wrong player for your set up!!!

    Rocky
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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 11,060
    edited April 2004
    no component in my TV though the receiver has video switching and I dont use any other music source than cd and watch reg dvd, the player was 1/2 off paid 249 cad for it
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  • therockman
    therockman Posts: 349
    edited April 2004
    Willow,
    Thanks for the quick reply, I am sorry if I seemed critical. It just seemed that you had a whole lot of player for your set-up, but now that I see things better, I think that your player will give you a lot of room to grow. You know what I mean, you have future expandibility with that Marantz.


    Rocky
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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 11,060
    edited April 2004
    yeah thats why we bought it....would it make a dif if I used comp. cables from the player to receiver than use a svideo to tv ??
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  • therockman
    therockman Posts: 349
    edited April 2004
    No not really, because you will still be feeding your monitor with an s-video cable. Thus, you would get no benifit from the component out of your player.



    Rocky
    Rocky Bennett
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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 11,060
    edited April 2004
    thats what I thought no need to spend xtra $$$ thanks
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