Marantz CINEMA 40 9.4 Channel Home Theater Receiver

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Product & Company HistoryThe CINEMA 40 is near the top of the new Marantz Cinema Series lineup. We will go over all of its features and hopefully help you decide if it is the right audio-video receiver for your home theater system.The CINEMA 50, which is the model below the CINEMA 40, offers a whole lot of value for the money and well also go over some comparisons between these two models.Design & Build QualityThe CINEMA 40 is a full-scale home theater receiver with 9 amplifier channels built in and a large array of inputs and outputs. It can easily be the heart of a great home theater system.To try and uphold their tradition of making gear that sounds natural, Marantz has a program in Japan where they train engineers to be what they call a Marantz Sound Master. They will learn to identify the type of sound that has made Marantz famous and perform many listening tests as a product is being developed. While it is not clear if this is done for every single Marantz product, we know for a fact the new CINEMA 40 went through the Sound Master listening process to fine-tune its sonic signature for that warm Marantz sound. The CINEMA 40 is even made in the Shirakawa plant in Japan.Build quality-wise, we have always been impressed with the way Marantz puts their units together. On both the CINEMA 40 and CINEMA 50, you get an aluminum front panel with the cool new look they launched with their Series 30. You can tell Marantz believes these are built to last as they put a full 5-year parts and labor warranty on both units.Features & TechnologyThe CINEMA 40 has just about everything a home theater enthusiast would want in a top-end all-in-one receiver. On the video side, you get seven 8K inputs and three video outputs with zone two and three audio. These all support the latest HDMI 2.1 and HDCP 2.3 specs. The CINEMA 50 in comparison has six 8K inputs and zone 2 only.A video input feature that may be important to those of you with older video sources that do not have