Hi guys, wala kasi makita masyado review ng marantz 5012 and 1609 although naaudition ko na sila. Sa mga owners po ng model na to. Ok naman po ba?
I have SR5012. In terms of music sound quality, it's good. Music better than other AVRs I auditioned, Yamaha, Denon; Onkyo has the worst music (656). NAD was slightly better, but I felt the price difference was too much from what I was hearing, and is still a far cry from my hifi setup. Home theater, can't really compare since I auditioned using Music, but I'm satisfied with what I have. A friend of mine got the 1609, and it sounds similar (didn't do an A-B though, just basing on what I felt) upon retrospect, I should've gone the same route since I don't really drive the volume up.
My main complaint though, and this might be isolated to my setup: AVR <> LG B6P HDMI ARC with the TV as the source, if I lose power (unplug) or if I do an update, the simplink connection is still there, but no output in sound. I have to manually go to speaker setup, switch front speakers from large to small, and then small back to large, before I get output again. I say it might be my setup because I can stream music from spotify with no problem when this happens, so only issue is with the ARC I think.
Another minor complaint is more with the HEOS app, after a while, I cannot control the volume anymore with the app, and is only "synced" if I power off or update. Oh, and the HEOS app isn't so good, it works, but I find the Blusound app much much better.