DENON, February 1999 AVP-A1, AVC-A1D, DVD-5000 - AV / video

A 26-page stapled brochure - DENON’s full-line AV catalog No.4, February 1999, the golden age of home theater. Ten amplifiers and decoders for all three formats of the era: the top separate stack AVP-A1-N (AV pre-amplifier at ¥400,000) plus POA-T3-N (3-channel ¥200,000) plus POA-T2-N (2-channel ¥150,000), all Lucasfilm THX5.1 licensed; the world’s first integrated DTS+Dolby Digital+THX5.1 Ultra unit, the AVC-A1D-N at ¥350,000, with two 32-bit floating-point DSPs and 96kHz/24bit DACs on every one of its six channels; the integrated AVC-3800 at ¥230,000; the AVR-3200 receivers (gold and black, both at ¥130,000) and AVR-2700 at ¥88,000; and two standalone decoders to upgrade older receivers, the AVD-1000 DTS at ¥70,000 and AVD-2000 Dolby Digital at ¥66,000. Joining them are the flagship DVD-5000-N at ¥270,000 with AL24 Processing, HDCD and THX ultra, the American M&K THX speakers distributed by DENON in Japan (the S-150 + S-150C + SS-150 + MX-5000II subwoofer system reaches over a million yen), and DENON’s own budget V-series speakers. The closing spread shows two reference setups: one with a BARCO VISION 708MM projector and Stewart screen at ¥4 million, and a more modest one with a Hitachi widescreen TV at ¥1.74 million.