Denon AVRS930H 7.2 Channel AV Receiver with Built-in HEOS wireless technology

Yes, it works with Alexa! And quite easily! In fact, so easily, that when I tell my Echo Spot to play music, the Denon stereo turns on instantly. I upgraded to this receiver because I signed on to Amazon Music Unlimited on only ONE of my Echo Spots, the one that talks with this. I am not disappointed.The Denon comes with various sound "modes" for both TV and music, and that's really good. I had those on my old receiver, but these are better, and there are more of them. I skipped the part of the setup where the receiver automatically senses your speakers' volume levels. I wanted to increase the center speaker only, for better dialogue on TV. I called Customer Support, and I was done and happy in under 5 minutes. They are very good.At first, set up seemed intimidating, because you must set up the receiver to the TV and then follow on-screen commands. Also getting on the wi-fi seemed tough at first. But really, neither were. This box is full of features, but if you want to just use it at a basic level, no problem. That's what I'm doing, and I'm working my way up from there. It makes my old stereo system (surround) sound new again. My subwoofer is self powered, and its directions tell me to tell the receiver there IS NO subwoofer. Ok, I did that. No problem. It rocks.I have had Denon products before: a wonderful carousel CD player. So I felt confident buying from them. And they are still as good.TIPS: Before you get started, be certain that you have at least several HDMI cables. Hopefully, your TV has an HDMI ARC out. That really helps. An ethernet cable to your modem is the best way to get this on the wi-fi, so keep your modem/router near the TV and this box and hook them up physically. No sweat. Fast, and it really, really solidifies your network connection.Bottom Line: It is so multi-functioned and modern, that it seems intimidating at first, but actually this Denon is very user friendly. It sounds great! It has oodles of settings for music and TV playback. And . . . Alexa integrates so easily, it's embarrassing. Now I have the entire Amazon music catalogue at my fingertips in my living room. Priceless!

This was a replacement for a dead Onkyo TX-NR608 receiver, and what impressed me immediately was the sudden jump in clarity, especially through the subwoofer. The Onkyo had produced a very warm, saturated bass, but the Denon AVRS930H produced a tight, defined, focused bass that made loud subwoofer events much easier to follow through nuance. The most vivid example of this was the 7.1 audio track on the 2004 Special Edition of Star Wars -- yes, I have issues with the Special Edition, but it still remains one of my go-to 7.1 test discs -- in which, instead of hearing the low rumble of the Star Destroyer as a single chord, the subwoofer now articulated a slight pitch susseration of its engines, as it passed by. The Protector's action sequences also saw much cleaner speaker transitions, and an alarming clarity as the bullets whizzed past our heads, trackable with our ears. (I leaned hard, on reflex.)Levels setup was easy. While the first-time configuration script features the same sort of decent-function-paired-with-last-decade's-aesthetics you'd expect from a receiver under a grand, rest assured that under that dated black glass decor, the process works beautifully, and the Audyssey room correction routine does, too. I found the speaker connectors particularly accommodating of banana clips, easy to insert and remove, but unlikely to disconnect otherwise. The Eco mode is surprisingly unobtrusive, supplying power when needed and metering it back when it's not, and I found its detection of mode and channel number changes much faster and much more seamless than the Onkyo's had been.I'm really happy with this receiver, and it's taken heavy use since purchase like a champ.

This receiver replaced a 17-year old Denon AVR-1801 receiver. Compared to the old one, it's great to have HDMI switching, Pandora, and AirPlay from my iPhone.I am using this receiver in a 2 zone setup. The main zone is 5.1 used with the TV in the living room. The 2nd zone drives a whole-house speaker system in the rest of the rooms of the house. Setup was very easy, although there were two different firmware upgrades required, each of which took several minutes.The receiver has worked perfectly with the exception of two unexplained disconnects from my wi-fi network. When this happens, the Speaker Setup menu is greyed out. In both cases, power-cycling the receiver fixed the problem. I contacted Denon support, and they are not aware of any similar issues, blamed it on a weak wi-fi signal, and suggested I use wired Ethernet. It sounds like a firmware bug to me.The HDMI i/p scaler (as well as the extra power) were the main reasons I picked this model over the less-expensive AVR-S730h, and it works very well. When watching 1080i video from my cable box on my Vizio M65-E0 4K TV, the picture looks noticeably sharper with the receiver doing the upscaling than if I let the TV do the upscaling itself.When playing stereo sound, the receiver stays pretty cool, but with all 7 channels playing at once, it gets very hot. I was able to use my older Denon receiver in a cabinet with the door closed, but with this new one, I feel like it is necessary to keep the door open.All in all, a nice receiver, and I recommend it.