Marantz AV8801 Price Reduced

This is an excellent Marantz AV8801 Processor, I am the original owner, The amp was in our media room and powered through a 200 amp isolation transformer and then a Tice Powerblock III so it was always given absolutely clean stable power in a climate-controlled room at 70 degrees F year-round. This worked great with 4K but we upgraded our projector to an 8K JVC and to the 8805A. I think they sound exactly the same, I think the 8801 is a little easier or faster to set up. for a cash deal or pick-up price contact me.

It's carefully packed into the original box, most likely it will be boxed again if shipped. It's a very sweet-sounding and balanced processor.

On the video side of things, the AV8801 supports 4K Ultra HD, 3D, Deep Color, ARC, and Auto Lip Sync through any of its seven HDMI inputs (one of which is also MHL-compliant). Three HDMI outputs allow for dual display devices (think flat panel and projector) in the main room and one output for a remote zone. The Analog Devices video processing circuitry can upconvert video signals to 4K resolution and employs that company's proprietary Noise Shaped Video, which is said to move noise in the video signal to where it can be more easily extracted from the signal. The AV8801 also features InstaPrevue, a feature I had not used before, which allows live picture-in-picture viewing of HDMI sources and allows for faster switching between HDMI sources. Video processing and upconversion get a lot of attention, but I found InstaPrevue to be the video feature that I used the most.

The AV8801's feature set extends beyond the audio and video realms to include a four-port Ethernet switch to make network connections easy, as well as DLNA, Bluetooth, and AirPlay support and streaming from a wide variety of Internet sources like Spotify and Pandora. I have been utilizing DLNA playback for my music library more and more over the years, so I appreciated this capability, especially since the AV8801 could handle WAV and FLAC files up to 192-kHz/24-bit and ALAC to 96-kHz/24-bit - with gapless playback, too! (Alas, there's no AIFF support, but perhaps a firmware upgrade can add that capability.) Control and integration are facilitated by a variety of physical connections (RS-232, 12-volt triggers, etc.), as well as iOS- and Android-compatible applications.