With the new AV7005, Marantz has merged the latest video and audio entertainment technologies in a component preamp / processor that most other high-end audio manufacturers have been unable to keep up with. Outside you’ll find pure elegance, a black anodized aluminum look that features the classic Marantz porthole display, two large control knobs and a door that hides the other controls, front panel connections, and a larger fluorescent display. Although your favorite display will likely be the on-screen controls on the HDMI signal. On the inside, this Pre/Pro features capabilities to play back everything from your vinyl collection with the built-in phono preamp, to your music on your PC, and even reaching out to streaming services on the Internet through the Ethernet port.

In addition to superbly clean audio circuitry, the AV7005’s multitude of Ins/Outs includes the HDMI 1.4a specification (6 in / 2 out), providing 3D and Audio Return Channel. All of the latest surround formats are covered, including DTS HD Master Audio, Dolby True HD, Dolby Pro Logic IIz, and Audyssey DSX to name a few. The front panel USB port gives you playback connectivity for iPods, smartphones, or storage devices (music and Pics). Setup and listening joy are aided by Audyssey MultEQ , Dynamic EQ and Dynamic Volume. And to make sure you get a great picture to go along with your fantastic sound, the AV7005’s Anchor Bay video processor upscales all video inputs to HD 1080P on the HDMI output, including HDMI to HDMI upscaling. Using the standard unbalanced audio pre-outs or the balanced XLR outputs you can connect your favorite multi-channel power amp, such as the new Marantz MM7055, to deliver the experience to your awaiting Aperion Audio speakers.

Please Note: The AV7005 is a preamp and processor - it requires a separate amplifier to drive speakers.

Key Features:

• 7.1 Channel dedicated preamplifier utilizing Marantz’s Current Feedback HDAM circuitry
• 7.2 Channel preamp outputs (balanced & unbalanced), with support for two subwoofers
• Six HDMI 1.4a inputs (5 on rear panel, 1 on front) with 3D, control capabilities, and Audio Return Channel which can send audio from your TV display to the receiver without any extra cabling
• Five digital audio inputs (3 optical, 2 coaxial SPDIF) for game boxes, cable boxes, etc.
• Six analog stereo inputs to support all your legacy gear
• Dolby TrueHD, Digital Plus & EX, Pro Logic IIz, Pro Logic IIx, Dolby II, Dolby Virtual Speaker, and Dolby Headphone circuitry with a convincing surround sound effect for stereo headphones
• DTS HD Master and High Resolution Audio, Discrete & Matrix 6.1, ES, 96/24, Neo:6, and DTS Neural Surround
• Audyssey DSX to add width and height channels to your surround experience • Zone 2 video and Zone 2/Zone 3 for audio in other rooms, with independent source selection
• USB connectivity provides a digital connection for iPods, Smartphones, and storage drives
• DLNA 1.5 and Windows 7 certified to easily stream audio and photos from all PCs on your home network
• Bluetooth wireless connection to your smartphone or laptop with the optional RX101 module
• AM/FM/HD Radio, and Sirius-ready tuner with 56 presets
• Audyssey MultEQ analyzes and corrects for room effects with included microphone
• Audyssey Dynamic EQ keeps balance of treble and bass across different volume levels
• Audyssey Dynamic Volume to maintain dialogue intelligibility and consistent volume
• M-DAX circuitry restores missing high frequency information from compressed audio formats
• Learning Remote with backlit LCD display
• Warranty: Three Years parts and labor from original date of purchase

Audioholics Review of the AV7005

Comments:	"Recently, we've seen a few manufacturers release full featured Pre/Pros but they've been costly. So much so that most Audioholics could only visit them in the store and look forlornly at them. Not any more. Marantz has impressed us again by announcing a Pre/Pro that not only has all the latest features but won't break the bank." - - Tom Andry, audioholics.com, July 2010 See the Full Review

The Preamp/Processor Advantage

Delegating the amplification duties to a separate component allows the AV7005 to keep a healthy distance between noise-inducing high voltage/high current circuits and sensitive low-level circuits.  This means that the radio frequency and electromagnetic interferences that must be tamed in a receiver simply don’t exist in a pre/pro, or are reduced by several orders of magnitude.  The result is less distortion and less signal degradation in general.

Elegant Design

Aesthetically, the AV7005 is a sophisticated – and totally successful – exercise in minimalist design.  At first glance, you’ll see just two knobs, the iconic Marantz porthole-style display, and a smaller On/Standby button.  Naturally, this elegantly simple front panel integrates with any décor.
But don’t mistake the AV7005’s true personality.  Look closely at the centered display first used on the Marantz Model 9 power amplifier.  It provides an “at a glance” status check on input selection and gain setting.  Immediately under this display, a drop-down door hides a vacuum fluorescent display, as well as secondary controls and connectors.

Expansive Yet Compact

Barely 16” deep from front panel controls to rear panel connectors, the AV7005 fits where other preamp/processors often can’t – on a shelf or in a custom cabinet, and can be rack mounted using the optional rack mount kit.

Audio quality

The AV7005’s audio circuitry includes our proprietary HDAM (Hyper-Dynamic Amplifier Module) circuits and Current

Feedback topology.

Even vinyl aficionados will welcome the AV7005 as it includes a highly musical MM phono input implemented with the same current feedback technology that provides seamless octave-to-octave tonal balance for line-level inputs.

HDAM

HDAMs combine the short signal path advantages of ICs (integrated circuits) and opamps (operational amplifiers) with the superior sound quality of separate circuit components.  Because HDAMs are discrete designs, Marantz engineers are free to choose the parts best able to preserve the sonic details of your favorite sources.

Current Feedback

Current feedback circuits usually exhibit faster rise and fall times and higher slew rates than their voltage feedback cousins.  (Think of rise and fall times as an automobile’s acceleration and braking capabilities respectively.  Slew rate is analogous to a car’s cornering ability.)
As a consequence, current feedback designs track rapid sonic changes more accurately and thus sound more natural.

M-DAX – Makes your iPod and MP3 Files Sound Better

Marantz’s M-DAX 2, an updated and refined version of the original Marantz Dynamic Audio eXpander, calculates just the amount of high frequency information typical file compression formats remove – and then restores it so you enjoy full fidelity when playing back MP3 or WMA music files.

Connectivity

The AV7005 makes your home entertainment world far, far larger than you imagined.  In addition to conventional sources such as Blu-ray players and set-top cable/satellite boxes, the AV7005 preamp/processor gives you easy ways to listen to the music you’ve already stored on an iPhone or other portable music player, show your photos on the big screen, stream audio from a wide variety of sources, and enjoy music from your Bluetooth-enabled devices wirelessly with the optional RX101 module.

DLNA

The AV7005’s Ethernet connection is DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) 1.5 and Windows 7 compliant.  This means it’s easier for you to access and enjoy digital music from all of the PC’s on your home network.

Streaming Media

Access the world of Internet streamed media through various user interfaces and software. Choose from 1000s of Internet radio stations with vTuner.  Listen to your favorite music through Rhapsody, Napster, and Pandora.  Share photos with Flickr.  In other words, connect!

Bluetooth Wireless Audio (with optional RX101)

Enjoy the world of wireless audio the AV7005.  Just plug the optional RX101 Bluetooth module into the AV7005’s rear panel M-XPort connector and enjoy traditional Marantz sound quality from your favorite Bluetooth-capable sources such as iPod, iPad and smart-phones.

Surround Sound Processing

The AV7005 handles all of today’s most advanced surround sound formats.  You’ll find a full roster of Dolby technologies such as TrueHD, Digital Plus, Pro Logic IIz, IIx, II, Virtual Speaker, and Dolby Headphone.  From DTS, we’ve included HD Master Audio, High Resolution Audio, ES Discete6.1, Matrix6.1, Neo:6, 96/24, Express, and Neural Surround.  Regardless of the audio format chosen by a content provider, the AV7005 will handle it.

Audyssey

In addition to these surround formats, you’ll also find Audyssey’s MultEQ XT Auto Calibration, MultEQ Pro for custom installations, Audyssey DSX, Dynamic Volume, and Dynamic EQ.
You can use the full array of Audyssey technologies to tame your room’s acoustic anomalies, preserve a source’s full dynamic impact even at low volumes, and compensate for those “too loud” commercials that often intrude on your listening and viewing pleasure.

HDMI - The Audio/Video Connection Standard

(High Definition Multimedia Interface) has become the de facto standard for connecting components in today’s best home entertainment systems.  The AV7005 fully supports the latest 1.4a version with six inputs (one on the front panel) and two outputs. You’ll enjoy the convenience of single-cable connections, the latest 3D technology, an Audio Return Channel, and Standby Pass-Through.  In addition, HDMI 1.4a supports a host of other performance enhancements.

Video Features


 

Anchor Bay 10-bit Video Processor/Scaler

The ABT2015 10-bit processor, Anchor Bay’s fourth-generation video engine, provides exceptional performance including transcoding, deinterlacing, and scaling to give you the flexibility and convenience once restricted to video professionals.

Thanks to this processing power, you can now connect all your video sources, even legacy formats such as videotapes, and display their outputs via HDMI on your high definition TV.

User Interface


New color GUI/On-Screen Display

Easy selection.  Easy customization.  Easy operation.  Those are the benefits of the AV7005’s new color GUI (Graphical User Interface)/On-Screen Display.  Simplified yet comprehensive menu screens, liberal use of color, and consistent navigation commands make it easy to choose the performance parameters you want and integrate the AV7005 with the rest of your system.

Enjoy Your Favorite Music in More than One Room

For multi-zone operation, you can select different audio sources for Zones 2 and 3, even add a different composite or component video source for Zone 2.  There are configurable 7.1 preamp outputs – both single-ended and balanced – as well as a second subwoofer output particularly useful in large rooms.

Tuner Features

With 56 AM/FM/HD tuner presets (eight stations in each of seven groups) you can memorize your favorite broadcasts, even those from the Internet, for easy and repeatable access.

The AV7005’s HD Radio allows you to access FM that sounds (almost) as good as CD and AM that often outperforms conventional FM.

Ready for satellite radio?  So is the AV7005.  Simply add a Sirius home docking station (and a subscription) for a wide variety of exclusive programming.

Specifications:

Audio section

• Analog
Input sensitivity/Input impedance: 200 mV/47 kΩ
Frequency response: 10 Hz – 100 kHz — +1, –3 dB (DIRECT mode)
S/N: 105 dB (IHF–A weighted, DIRECT mode)
Distortion: 0.005 % (20 Hz ~ 20 kHz) (DIRECT mode)
Rated output: Unbalanced pre-output: 1.2 V
Balanced pre-output: 2.4 V

• Digital
D/A output: Rated output — 2 V (at 0 dB playback)
Total harmonic distortion — 0.008 % (1 kHz, at 0 dB)
S/N ratio — 102 dB
Dynamic range — 100 dB
Digital input: Format — Digital audio interface

• Phono equalizer (PHONO input — REC OUT)
Input sensitivity: 2.5 mV
RIAA deviation: ±1 dB (20 Hz to 20 kHz)
S/N: 74 dB (A weighting, with 5 mV input)
Rated output: 150 mV
Distortion factor: 0.03 % (1 kHz, 3 V)

Video section

• Standard video connectors
Input/output level and impedance: 1 Vp-p, 75 Ω
Frequency response: 5 Hz – 10 MHz — +1, –3 dB

• Color component video connector
Input/output level and impedance: Y (brightness) signal — 1 Vp-p, 75 Ω
PB / CB signal — 0.7 Vp-p, 75 Ω
PR / CR signal — 0.7 Vp-p, 75 Ω
Frequency response: 5 Hz – 60 MHz — +0, –3 dB (when “Video Convert” set to “OFF”)

Tuner section [FM] [AM]

(Note: μV at 75 Ω, 0 dBf = 1 x 10–15 W)
Receiving Range: FM: 87.5 MHz – 107.9 MHz, AM: 530 kHz – 1710 kHz
Usable Sensitivity: 1.5 μV (14.8 dBf) 18 μV
S/N (IHF-A): MONO 78 dB, STEREO 68 dB, HD 85 dB
Total harmonic Distortion (at 1 kHz): MONO 0.1 %, STEREO 0.2 %, HD 0.02 %

General
Power supply: AC 120 V, 60 Hz
Power consumption: 60 W
0.2 W (Standby)
4.0 W (CEC standby)
Maximum external dimensions:  17.3”/440mm (W) x 7.4”/187mm (H) x 15.6”/395mm (D)
Weight: 10.1 kg

Remote control unit (RC011SR)
Batteries: R03/AAA Type (two batteries)

For purposes of improvement, specifications and design are subject to change without notice.
AV7005 User Manual - English (28MB)

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Marantz AV7005 Product Sheet