Denon AVC-X6800H 11.4 Channel 8K AV Amplifier

About The Denon AVC-X6800H 11.4 Channel 8K AV Amplifier

Designed and manufactured in Japan, the AVC-X6800H drives 11.4 channels of amplification for an upscaled experience. With Dolby Atmos and DTS:X, plus IMAX Enhanced and Auro 3D, the AVC-X6800H envelops larger living spaces in breathtaking 3D audio. With HEOS® Built-in, wirelessly stream your favourite music.

Powerful 11-Channel Amplifier: Featuring a sophisticated power amplifier in monolithic board design, the AVC-X6800H delivers high-power performance at 140 watts per channel to ensure a dynamic and precise entertainment experience.

3D Audio Experience: Get enveloped in sound with Dolby Atmos®, DTS:X®, IMAX Enhanced and Auro 3D, along with Dolby Surround, DTS Neural:X and Auro-Matic upmixer to optimize legacy content.

Configuration Flexibility: AVC-X6800H offers many setup options and flexibility to adjust your home theatre to meet your needs. Supports 13.4 channel processing capability, Pre-Amplifier mode, and optional Dirac Live upgradability (with fee).

Advanced 8K Home Theatre: 8K video is supported on all seven HDMI inputs and two of the three outputs. With HLG, HDR, Dolby Vision, HDR10+ and Dynamic HDR pass-through, there's no need to worry about video compatibility or picture quality.

HEOS® Built-In Technology: Stream music wirelessly from a variety of free and premium streaming services. Share content to HEOS devices, like Denon Home speakers, in other rooms.

Audyssey Room Correction Technology: Premium suite of Audyssey room-correction features built-in for accurate setup and calibration to provide the most optimal listening experience for your room.

Built To High Standards: Designed and manufactured in Denon's state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Japan, where traditional practices fuse seamlessly with technologies designed for the future.

Over A Century Of Innovation: Founded in 1910, Denon enables the moments that matter through the relentless pursuit of quality, innovation, and audio performance.

Dolby Atmos: Feel every dimension in Dolby Atmos®. Upgrade your home theatre with height speakers to unleash a fully immersive 3D audio experience from Dolby Atmos content. Dolby Surround upmixer engages all speakers to create 3D audio sensation from legacy content. Dolby Atmos Height Virtualization Technology creates the sensation of overhead sound even without height speakers.

DTS:X: DTS:X immersive audio content places sound where it would naturally occur in space, creating life-like, multidimensional audio. DTS Neural:X upmixer offers improved immersion and heightened realism for legacy content.

IMAX Enhanced: Get the most premium at-home entertainment experience with IMAX Enhanced—the latest technology from DTS that sets a new standard for home theatre imaging, sound, scale and clarity. Watch clearer pictures and brighter images. Feel immersive, heart-pounding audio and experience premium content digitally remastered by IMAX.

Auro 3D: Auro 3D® elevates the home theatre experience to amazing new levels by delivering the excitement of three dimensional sound for music, games, broadcast, and films, putting you in a cocoon of lifelike sound. Turn your existing audio-visual collection into an Auro 3D experience, thanks to Auromatic upmixing engine.

360 Reality Audio: Immerse yourself in sound as real as if you are at a live concert or with the artist recording in a studio. With 360 Reality Audio, music has never been so real.

HDMI Connectivity with ARC/eARC: Supports the latest technology on all HDMI inputs and outputs. ARC (Audio Return Channel) or eARC (Enhanced Audio Return Channel) makes playing TV audio through your AV amplifier simple, with just a single HDMI connection. eARC provides HD and 3D audio transmission such as Dolby TrueHD, DTS HD Master Audio and Dolby Atmos while ARC is limited to conventional 5.1ch audio formats or PCM.

8K/HDCP 2.3: Enjoy pristine 8K picture quality on your 8K TV or projector. Supports both 8K pass-through and 8K upscaling of 4K content. Supports HDCP 2.3, the latest copy protection standard, for peace of mind when streaming copy protected content.

Brilliant Colour from HDR 10+: Supports HDR (High Dynamic Range), HLG (Hybrid Log Gamma), as well as Dynamic HDR and HDR10+ pass-through. HLG offers HDR technology over broadcast content. Both Dynamic HDR and HDR10+ use dynamic metadata to optimize shadows and highlights as screens change.

Dolby Vision: Dolby Vision is a stunning HDR imaging technology that brings extraordinary colour, contrast, and brightness to the screen. Compatible with Dolby Vision so you can enjoy Dolby Vision content from a compatible source device and TV.

Next-Generation Gaming: Supports Variable Refresh Rate (VRR), Quick Frame Transport (QFT) and Auto Low Latency Mode (ALLM) for smooth, lag free gaming experience when connected with the compatible gaming devices.

HEOS Built-In: With HEOS® Built-in, your AV amplifier can stream music wirelessly across compatible HEOS components from a variety of free and premium streaming services. Consumers can also enjoy their favourite music in any room of the home wirelessly. Play the same song in every room or select a different song for each connected room via a variety of streaming sources. Add Denon Home speakers to more rooms and control it all with the HEOS app.

High-Resolution Audio: Discover the incredible fidelity of high-resolution audio tracks and enjoy music as the artist intended. A front USB port supports up to 24bit/192kHz hires audio playback from a USB drive. Supported audio formats are MP3, WMA, WAV, MPEG- 4/AAC, FLAC, and ALAC.

Setup Assistant: Award-winning guide Denon Setup Assistant provides simple, clear instructions to get started. Just connect your AV amplifier to your TV and follow the instructions on the TV screen to connect your speakers, perform speaker measurements and connect source devices. For additional convenience, the AV amplifier renames HDMI inputs automatically when connected or you can rename manually at your convenience.

Audyssey Premium Suites of Room-Correction Technology: Denon AV amplifiers use the Audyssey suite of EQ software for simple, accurate set-up and calibration. With the supplied Audyssey measuring microphone, Audyssey measures all the speakers in your home theatre, and tunes the AV amplifier to provide the smoothest, most optimal overall listening experience for your room. This AV amplifier supports Audyssey MultEQ XT32 and SubEQ HT, Audyssey's highest room correction technology. The other supported Audyssey features are Dynamic EQ, Dynamic Volume and LFC (Low Frequency Containment).

Audyssey MultEQ Editor App: You can go even further with the Audyssey MultEQ Editor app, going "under the hood" to view and adjust settings for detailed tuning— allowing you to customize the sound more precisely to the specific problems in your room, and tailor the sound to your personal preferences. With this comprehensive app, you can harness the power of Audyssey MultEQ to take total control of the way your home cinema sounds. The app is available for purchase in iOS and Google Play stores.

Dirac Live Upgradeability: Purchase a Dirac Live® Room Correction license key to apply state- of-the-art, patented algorithms to analyse and digitally reduce room impact and enhance speaker performance.

Dual Speaker Preset Memory: Store two speaker settings and switch between the two settings on the fly, giving you freedom to optimize your listening experience based on the content or listening environment.

AL32 Processing Technology: AL32 Processing, a Denon proprietary analogue waveform reproduction technology, supports up to 192 kHz sampling frequency and performs a 32bit expansion on your amplifier. The technology thoroughly suppresses noise associated with D/A conversion to reproduce the low-level signals with optimum clarity that will bring out all the delicate nuances of the music. AL32 Processing Multi-Channel means the technology is applied on all channels and all input sources.

Three-Source, Three Zones: The amplifier supports three-source, three-zones. You can drive three different zones with three different sources simultaneously, or all with the same source. Use the amplifier's internal amplification configurable in the setup, or use zone two and zone three pre-outs to connect with external amplifiers. One of the HDMI outputs can be used as a second A/V zone. Play your favourite playlists in your living room, kitchen and patio, or you can enjoy your favourite movies or the latest episodes from your favourite TV series with surround sound on your TV while the amplifier plays HEOS music in other rooms.

13.4 Channel Processing, 11 Channel Amplification: With external two-channel amplification that can be assigned to either Front Left and Right, or a pair of height channels, you can setup a 13 channel speaker configuration such as 7.1.6 or 9.1.4, allowing you even more flexibility and elevated immersive audio experience.

Subwoofer Outputs & Settings: Immerse yourself in evenly distributed, accurate bass. Featuring up to four subwoofer outputs to smooth out low frequencies and provide better dispersion. No audible peaks or dips—just powerful, room-filling bass. Tweak your subwoofer settings to your preference when more than two subwoofers are connected. Select "Standard" if you want evenly distributed bass performance. Select "Directional" if you want more directional bass performance seamlessly integrated into the speaker channel closest to each subwoofer in the room.

Pre Amplifier Mode: Your Denon AV amplifier can work as a perfect AV preamplifier with the latest HDMI connectivity. Pre-Amplifier Mode provides a cleaner signal path and more tolerance in clipping level by disconnecting internal amplifiers. Add the flexibility to disconnect select speaker channels so that you can use the AV amplifier's built-in amplification to drive non-critical channels to get a clearer signal path for the channels driven by external amplification.

Our Take

The Denon AVC-X6800H 11.4 Channel 8K AV Amplifier offers the highest standards of audio visual performance and is well placed to cater to the demands of the most discerning home entertainment enthusiasts. Boasting cutting-edge technology, this amplifier delivers an immersive 3D audio experience with its support for the latest audio formats, including Dolby Atmos, DTS:X, and Auro-3D. With its advanced 8K HDMI inputs and outputs, the AVC-X6800H ensures compatibility with the latest video standards, providing crystal-clear and vibrant visuals. Equipped with a robust 11-channel amplifier, this powerhouse is capable of delivering 140 watts per channel, ensuring a dynamic and detailed soundstage. The inclusion of HEOS multi-room streaming technology further enhances its versatility, allowing users to seamlessly integrate their favourite music streaming services. The Denon AVC-X6800H stands at the forefront of home theatre amplification, promising an unparalleled audio visual journey for enthusiasts seeking the pinnacle of performance in their entertainment systems.

Main Features & Specifications

• Design: 11.2 Channel Home Theatre Receiver with Dolby Atmos & DTS:X
• 11-Channel Amplifier
• 140 Watts per channel into 8 Ohms (20-20,000 Hz) at 0.05% THD, with 2 channels driven
• Dolby®, DTS®, and Auro-3D® surround sound decoding
  • Dolby Atmos® processing for use with in-ceiling or "height" speakers for more enveloping home theatre sound
  • Dolby Atmos Height Virtualization and DTS Virtual:X® create three-dimensional effects without height speakers
• IMAX® Enhanced reproduces the full dynamic range of specially encoded IMAX soundtracks from compatible sources
• Analog-to-HDMI video conversion
• AL32 Processing Multichannel technology upsamples audio signals for clear, smooth sound
• Audyssey speaker calibration and system optimization includes:
  • MultEQ® XT32 auto setup and room calibration delivers balanced, dynamic sound with enhanced surround performance
  • Dynamic Volume anticipates loud sounds to keep volume levels even
  • Dynamic EQ improves dialogue, bass response, and surround channel levels at lower volumes
  • Sub EQ HT provides individual calibration for four subwoofers, for even bass response throughout the room
  • Low Frequency Containment reduces the amount of bass that bleeds into other rooms
  • Audyssey MultEQ Editor app for further audio customization (paid app; not included)
• Optional Dirac Live room calibration and bass management
  • Requires purchase of separate license from Dirac
  • Requires separate PC or Mac and a third-party USB microphone (all sold separately)

Digital & Streaming Options

• Built-In Wi-Fi for listening to music from a networked PC, free internet radio, and music services
• HEOS Built-in technology wirelessly connects compatible HEOS components for whole home audio
  • Includes support for TIDAL and Spotify® (subscription required for some services)
  • Free HEOS app offers easy Wi-Fi control, settings adjustments, and music selection and playback
  • Works with Amazon Alexa and Google Home voice control assistants
• AirPlay 2 lets you stream directly from your Apple® device
  • Supports multi-room audio with compatible wireless speakers
• Built-In Bluetooth for wireless music listening with smartphones, tablets, and compatible computers
• Bluetooth transmission for sending audio from the receiver to Bluetooth-enabled headphones
  • Play audio through Bluetooth headphones only, or through Bluetooth headphones and connected speakers simultaneously
• Plays high-resolution digital music files via USB storage device or a networked computer (PCM up to 24-bit/192kHz resolution; DSD up to 5.6 MHz)
• Denon's Compressed Audio Restorer improves sound quality of MP3s and other digital music files
• Works as a Roon player (requires subscription and Roon Core running on your network)
  • Roon Core is media server software that runs on your computer, NAS drive, or other compatible hardware

Multi-Room Audio/Video

• Three-Room/Three-Source output
  • Powered stereo outputs for second and third rooms allow playback in three rooms at once
  • Line-Level 2nd and 3rd-room output for use with one or two separate amplifiers or powered speakers
  • Amp assign function lets you reassign the height channels for bi-amping, or for use in Zone 2 or 3
  • All Zone Stereo mode ensures that all zones stay in sync when playing the same source
  • TV Audio sharing lets you play surround sound in your main room and down mixed stereo in additional zones
  • Supports both analogue and digital audio connections
  • HDMI dual-zone switching for watching video content from different sources in two zones simultaneously
  • Zone 2 compatible audio sources: HDMI audio, optical/coaxial digital inputs, analogue audio inputs, USB, Bluetooth, and HEOS music apps
  • Cannot select different USB/Bluetooth/network sources for each zone

HDMI

• HDMI 2.1 audio/video switching: 7 in, 3 out
  • All inputs and 2 out of 3 outputs support 8K/60Hz and 4K/120Hz video
  • All inputs and outputs support 4K/60Hz video
  • Upscales 1080p and 4K signals to 8K resolution
  • HDCP 2.3 technology ensures compatibility with Ultra HD sources and TVs
  • HDR-compatible for extended picture contrast and brightness with compatible TVs and HDR-encoded content
  • Supports HDR10, HDR10+, Dolby Vision®, Dynamic HDR, and HLG
• Gaming-Optimized video processing technologies for a smooth, lag-free gaming experience
  • Variable Refresh Rate (VRR), Auto Low Latency Mode (ALLM), and Quick Frame Transport (QFT) reduce or eliminate lag and frame tearing
• Supports ARC (Audio Return Channel) and eARC (Enhanced Audio Return Channel)
  • eARC receives uncompressed surround sound signals including Dolby Atmos and DTS:X via the HDMI connection with your compatible TV

Other Connections

• 1 Component video input
• 2 Composite video inputs
• Digital audio inputs: 2 Toslink Optical, 2 Coaxial
• 6 Analogue stereo RCA line-level audio inputs
• MM (moving magnet) phono input for connecting a turntable
• 4-channel preamp outputs
• Four discrete line-level subwoofer outputs for more precise multi-subwoofer setups
• Front-Panel USB port for audio playback from USB flash drives
• Ethernet port for network connection
• Outputs for 13 speakers (Front L/R, Centre, Surround L/R, Surround Back L/R, Height1 L/R, Height2 L/R, Height3 Front Wide L/R)
  • Receiver can power a maximum of 11 channels at once
• RS-232C, remote (IR), and 12-volt trigger connections for use with optional third-party controllers
• Full-Sized headphone jack
• Removable Power Cable: Upgrade to an IsoTek Power Cable for better performance

General

• Free Denon AVR Remote App lets you use your Apple or Android™ device as a Wi-Fi remote
• Setup Assistant guides you through the initial connection process and settings
• HDMI standby pass-through allows HDMI switching without powering up receiver
• Intuitive, full-colour on-screen guide
• Remote Control
• Included Accessories: AC Power Cable, Remote Control (RC-1256), 2 AAA Batteries, Sound Calibration Microphone (ACM1HB), Cardboard Microphone Stand, Quick Start Guide, Warranty Information, Safety Instructions
• Finish: Black
• Dimensions (WxHxD)
  • Antenna Horizontal: 434 x 167 x 389mm
  • Antenna Vertical: 434 x 237 x 389mm
  • Without Antenna: 434 x 167 x 379mm
• Weight: 15.6 kg
• Manufacturer's Warranty: 2 Years with an additional 1 Year option (details in box)

Note: Features & Specifications Subject To Change Without Notice. E&OE.