Customer Ratings & Reviews

Again works great and the whole family enjoys it every day.

Awesome receiver. Bought open box and got a great deal.

Better than I expected. A terrific value for the price.

Instructions a little complicated but and over all good receiver

Great product and highly recommend! Always love Denon!

I would recocommend this product for all of the functions

I love it! I blast this thing, never ruinedit. Happy

Great sales service and so far the audio/visual teceiver

Great quality but single wire hook up for sub woofer

It works they way it's suppose to. I would recommend

The receiver is decent. Really can't get a decent sound until you turn the volume up to 60 or higher.

From vietnam I don't buy stuff from there. I have not forgot being there in 1968.

Was a nightmare.I would not recommend this to anyone

This isn’t great for gaming and was informed wrong on this product

Some connectivity issues. Would recommend buying the most receiver you can afford if you are going the home theatre route to future proof yourself somewhat.

I previously had an Onkyo receiver that came with a speaker bundle. It was a basic, entry level receiver like this Denon one, but was now 9 years old. It was working as it should. I noticed a problem as I started to use services like Netflix and HBO Now. I would have to turn the receiver way up to hear, so high (near max) that it would cause the receiver to trip. I was running through a Roku through the TV and using the optical audio out from the TV to run to the receiver. The DD+ signal could not be passed through the tv, so the tv was converting it to a weaker signal. That was causing me to have to turn it up to compensate. Changing the Netflix output to stereo didn't seem to help much, and even then I wouldn't be able to make use of my surround sound setup. Newer TVs shouldn't have this problem, but this one is 6 years old. There was no other way to get video to the tv and audio to the receiver (with surround sound) since my Onkyo receiver only had HDMI pass through capability. It couldn't extract audio from the HDMI input, again newer ones do this. So if anyone has such a problem, this Denon receiver does the trick. I run the Roku directly into the receiver and run HDMI out to the TV. It extracts audio (all normal surround formats you might have these days (DD, DD+, DTS) from inputs and sends the signal then out to the TV. I considered the newest Onkyo receiver at this price point, but decided against because of the horrible on unit display which was ugly and almost illegible. The Denon has a clear on unit display and good aesthetics. I enjoy the on screen display feature, which I didn't have before but I am sure is standard on receivers now. My preexisting Onkyo 6 ohm speakers and sub sound great with this system. Surround setup was easy. The only thing I would change is the volume control. This has been mentioned previously I think. When using the remote, it is very difficult to change the volume efficiently. It changes the volume too slow or way too fast. This is really just an annoyance, not a major problem. I highly recommend for an entry level receiver. I hope this helps anyone in the same boat as I had to do a bit of research to figure out my problem.

I got a new 4k TV and wanted to upgrade from my 10 year old Onkyo. Decided on this Denon since it was on sale and had everything I wanted, except an internet connection. Got it home and hooked up, only to find the customizable settings were super basic, nothing close to my old Onkyo. It sounded and looked nice, but returned it the next day and bought a new Onkyo, which is amazing!

Well, my previous unit, from a different manufacturer, went belly-up last night. The Wife was NOT HAPPY. Time to take immediate action. The old unit was "tedious" to set-up, and the remote had an over abundance of buttons, most would stop the TV sound if pushed at the wrong time and would result in a re-set-up! I'm a pretty tech geek kind of guy, but the set-up and remote had to go! My wife was just about ready to throw the remote out the window. BUT, , , , , The Denon AVR-S530BT is a dream to set-up, and the remote is simple and direct to-the-point! The on-screen instructions/prompts are perfect! Hook everything up to it, plug it in, turn it on, follow the on-screen set-up and BOOM!!!!! Perfect sound! No "catches"!

Easy to set up, good sound, nice design, and adequate for the job

I wanna preface this by saying... This system has been smooth. I've run it with Klipsch subwoofers and speakers. The audio is amazing, and my home theater absolutely pulls you into the movies. That being said... I'm on my third receiver in the span of a year. It's on it's own protected APC in a house that is 18 months old (so new wiring). It sits in an open sided tower on it's own shelf (no air flow problems) with projectors, gaming systems and several other electronics that do not have issues. I know it's possible to have had a few flukes. And again, the sound was really great. But it's tough to recommend when I owned a pioneer for 10 years, but I can't get this one to last 6 months.