Denon AVC-2800 (circa 1995)

The Denon AVC-2800 is an A/V integrated amplifier. Audio (December 1995, p.46) called it, in its Equipment Profile, an AVR-2500 with the tuner removed. Little else has surfaced beyond two 1995 period features: no production dates, no original price, no Denon brochure specs in the Archive's records. Those two reviews still give a fairly clear picture of what Denon was selling.

The amplifier section was a five-channel design. HiFI-Stereo (February 1995, p.94) listed the AVC-2800 as a "305-W A/V Integrated Amplifier" with 85 watts each to the front and center channels. Audio (December 1995, p.47) found the surround outputs rated at 25 watts each into 8 ohms at 0.1% THD at 1 kHz. According to the owner's manual, no channel was rated to drive a net load below 6 ohms, and Audio's reviewer, Edward J. Foster, found that significant. He noted the AVC-2800 met its specs and sounded quite good with easy-to-drive speakers. With difficult, low-impedance loads asked to play loud, the results suffered, and he expected more from Denon (December 1995, p.52).

Surround processing covered Dolby Pro Logic plus DSP ambience modes: Classic Concert, Rock, Jazz Club, Super Stadium, Mono Movie, and Matrix. The digital section included a DAC, and Denon claimed 18-bit resolution for the ADC feeding the DSP circuitry. Inputs documented in the Audio profile include DAT/Tape and moving-magnet phono. The pin jacks were not gold-plated, and two sets of multiway binding posts served the main speakers.

Five-channel A/V integrated amplifier (essentially AVR-2500 sans tuner)
85 W × 3 front/center; 25 W × 2 surround into 8 ohms (0.1% THD, 1 kHz)
Dolby Pro Logic plus six DSP ambience modes
No channel rated below 6-ohm loads, per owner's manual
Inputs: DAT/Tape, MM phono; non-gold pin jacks

If you have an AVC-2800 owner's manual, brochure, or service literature, the Archive would welcome a record. The model's story currently rests almost entirely on these two magazine features.