Denon PMA-2000 IV R 2-Channel Amplifier

Product Rating
4.71 of 5
31 reviews

Price Range
$1200 - $1200

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Product Description

Summary

I purchased this Int. amp for a smaller second system and to be honest I did not expect much. Boy was I "Shocked" this is a great piece of equipment and even after all the years that this Int. amp has bin around in one form or another "mine is the current PMA 2000 IVR" it's still a great buy. Yes there are better but you need to spend aprox $ 800.00 more for a small improvment in base control, Soundstage depth and whith.
..............................."Just hard to beat for the price"..........................

Strength

Great midrange and highs, powerful and well built with well laid out controls and switching is quite good.

Still a great value

Weakness

The base can be a bit much but if matched with base shy speakers it works out great. This is a heavy unit and it can get quite warm in use.

Summary

An excellent product in terms of tonal quality. It suits very much my taste for music which are more mid range oriented. Using with KEF Q7 and it rocks all the time. I had to pay little more due to the tax and import dury structure in India. Othewise it is a value for money for the US price tag of 900 - 1200 USD. A very simplistic UI where as the power is huge. Not at all can be placed with other Japanese products. The best part os the phono stage. Also value rating, is mostly based on the price I paid for buying it from a dealer in India which is actually due to the cost structure in India. Otherwise at a regular proce tag of 900 - 1200 USD the value rating should be 5.

Strength

Vety neutral sound quality. Clarity. Deep and full bodied bass. Built quality. Simplicity. Excellent Phono stage.

Weakness

May be the price I paid 70K INR equivalent to almost 1600 USD. Otherwise nothing.

Summary

I bought the Denon 2000 pma IVR version 1400€ from Helsinki. I also keep it runing 5 days and sounds change better every time. Great nuances and powerfull dynamic sound. It plays all kind of musik. 3D information is not the best possible. I buy this amp july and it fall apart next mont. The best soundet integrated amp that i`ve owned, but quality is not so good. Bad luck, probably. I byed that amp dealer, who not ordered with importer. He fixed that att once but it not Work. Toneless, sound/noice listen mostly left and it`s not sharp. Five stars.

Strength

Great nuances, powefull ( 80w 8Ohm and 160w 4Ohm) dynamic sound. Translucent.

Weakness

Quality.

Summary

This is just a follow up on my previous review after almost 2 years of owning this amp. The sound is still excellent. I still remember it took me a while to decide which amp I should get. I can honestly say that I would choose this amp over the others if I had to do this again. I just like it more and more every time I listen to it. I replaced the speakers a while ago with a pair of JMLab which is a perfect match with this amp. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! My System: Cambridge Audio D500SE Denon PMA2000MKIVR Focal-JMLab Chorus 726S Old NEC Cassette Deck Old NEC Turntable w/ Shure Cartridge Audioquest Coral Audioquest CV-6 Bi-wire XLO Reference 2 10A Power Cord(AMP) Cardas Quadlink-Five Power Cord(CD)

Strength

Clean, warm, natural and very detail sound. Good sound stage. Female vocal is excellent. Better than many expensive pre/power amp. Extremely well built.

Weakness

Really none at this price range.

Summary

spending $500+ was what I was looking to spend on a new amp. I wasn't lueard towards anything but the nad 370 at first. A local store let me take this home to try out for a few days. I hooked it up to my klipsch 3.2's and was pretty impressed. I decided that I wanted to start from the ground up on a new amp and was willing to spend more than $500-$1,500 on one. Times have changed since my early years of buying stereo gear. I'm very straight forward on what I like. I don't like a lot of bells and whistles, I just wanted a amp with clean power and a volume knob and with a few inputs and outs. After listening to a few consumer products such as pioneer, onkyo, panasonic, jvc, sony, denon and a few botique companys I broke my search down to the denon pma 2000 ivr. Personally theres nothing that even comes close to this amp in this price range. Its been said cheaper models such as nad would be compareable, yeah right, I don't think so. I brought different amps home and a-b them to the pma 2000 ivr and everything else went back to the stores. Crutchfield has been a great experience on buying this product. Free shipping both ways and their 30 day trial. I'm very picky about spendind money on anything. I feel when I buy something that's it, til death do us part! This amp is a great fondation to build on. I plan on adding more power amps and speakers down the road. It was very frustrating to decide what I wanted to spend this kind of money on, but after comparing the tests that I did, it was will worth the head ache and time.

Strength

Turn on, put the peddle to the metel and hang on. Very clean with the head room of high end botigue sound. Very inspiring sound scape. Makes you want more and more and more.

Weakness

almost got a harnia lifting her, but made me feel proud of to say shes very heavy and built like a tank.