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At first glance, the Denon AVR-3000 instills confidence and comfort because you seem to know exactly what every button on the front panel does without you having to crack the owner's manual. Don't get too cocky, though; Denon engineers have craftily hidden a slew of buttons marked with obscure nomenclature behind a metal panel.
The Denon AVR-3000 is a sensible receiver: 110 watts across the front and 35 watts to each side in the rear; an A/V input and 16 easily programmable AM/FM presets on the front panel; two remotes--one simple, one complete; basic simulated surround modes for theater sound, live, classical and rock concerts, church, jazz club, stadium, matrix, and Dolby Pro Logic; and four audio and four audio/video inputs. There's a video select button that enables users to pick the video signal independently of the audio signal--convenient for simulcasts.
Special features include a CD direct button, which routes the signal to bypass noise-inducing tone-control and...