I recently worked with a friend of mine trying to set up and configure a new Denon AVR-588 with his new Plasma TV. After over 5 hours of reading the manual and configuring the unit, I gave up and he is returning it to the store.

I found the instruction manual to be confusining, unorganized, and difficult to work with. I have had 2 home theater systems over the past 10 years or so and NEVER has so much trouble setting up a system.

The person I was helping couldn't get past the first few pages before he was lost. A casual user would have NO Chance of getting the system operational. I managed to get 75% of it to work, but couldn't get the job done.

Are all Denon receivers difficult to set up?