Marantz NR1510 Slimline Black AV Receiver

Product Information

Supports dual subwoofers for even, low-frequency bass response within your listening environment. Enjoy accurate bass with no audible peaks or dips no matter where you place your subwoofer(s). With AirPlay 2, Bluetooth, Alexa and Google Assistant built in, you’ll not be stymied when streaming, and its 3D audio performance is hugely entertaining.

If you like the idea of top quality cinema sound but are put off by the bulk of typical AV receivers, then the Marantz NR1510 is perfect for you. Standing just 104mm tall, it's around half the height (or less) of many of its rivals. This not only makes it easier on the eye but also allows it to be slotted in where many other AV receivers simply won't fit.We say: A triumph of design and operational ease, with a fine, unruffled but by no means demure performance. A strong feature set too.

Enjoy the most musical performance from a compact, slim chassis. At half the height of a traditional AV receiver, the Marantz NR1510 delivers the musical sound that’s synonymous with Marantz. With a power output that struggles beyond 50W per channel, this is better suited to smaller listening rooms where it doesn’t need to be run at max volume. It offers six HDMI inputs, but only one output, which means you can’t feed a TV and projector simultaneously. Marantz Slimline NR1711 has more channels, more channel processing, more zones, bigger power supply and higher bluetooth standard. It supports Dolby Atmos and DTS:X up to 5.1.2. It has DTS Dialog Control. Marantz Slimline NR1711 comes with 1 HDMI 2.1 input with 8K support and 5 inputs with 4K support. It has 1 output.

Overview

With the receiver being a 5.2 channels one we only get the five usual speaker terminals for the front, center and surround channels and nothing else. The terminals are made with good quality plastic for such a low end product, even if it is not so low end looking at its price. Above them we get the usual HDMI inputs with 5 of them being available at the rear for a total of six if you include the front one. There is only one HDMI output that has also ARC/eARC functionality. eARC is the new thing we get this year and it’s a feature that will stay exclusive to the 2019 model so if you absolutely need eARC then this year’s models is the way to go. It all works in tangent together to create an immersive experience, especially during action scenes Perfect For Movies HDR10+: HDR10+ is an HDR video technology that adds dynamic metadata to HDR10 source files. The dynamic metadata are used to adjust brightness levels on a scene-by-scene or even frame-by-frame basis. HDR10+ supports maximum of 10,000 nits peak brightness and 10-bit or more (up to 16-bit) color bit depth. It uses Samsung's dynamic metadata defined in SMPTE ST 2094-40. DTS Virtual:X: Marantz Slimline NR1711 supports DTS Virtual:X which bridges the gap between DTS:X codec and the reality of so many consumers' homes, allowing you to enjoy multi-dimensional sound regardless of room size, layout, or speaker configuration. If you have a limited speaker setup you will miss a full immersive potential of your entertainment system. DTS Virtual:X adds height and surround audio effect to your system without adding height speakers. It works with multiple configurations and delivers immersive sound experience out of 5.1 or even 2.1 speaker layouts.

Stream the most popular music services — like Spotify, Pandora, Tidal and many more — via Bluetooth, AirPlay 2 or the HEOS app.Utilize HEOS Built-in multi-room streaming or AirPlay 2 technology to enjoy your favourite music in any room of your home for a wireless, whole-home audio experience. Play the same song in every room or select a different song in each connected room — the choice is yours. Even as we are talking about the smaller and most weak of all the models, being a Marantz certainly comes with a certain degree of quality that the company is so famous for. Of course it doesn’t come with all the exotic audio parts that Marantz is advertising in their higher end models but even as such the NR1510 has a high-current discrete power amplifier section and features identical power on all five channels with low-impedance drive capability for superior speaker control showing that Marantz is paying attention even on it’s most weak units. The included microphone analyzes your room’s acoustics and sets up the most optimal speaker configuration.

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Treated with respect and the receiver doesn’t feel strained or fractious under pressure. Objects move around the soundstage with ruthless efficiency, like sonic pinballs.