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That is also interesting. having been in commercial IT for too many years to mention, I am continually confronted by issues around legacy systems. it seems that the world where firmware meets hardware in the domestic market is about to find out that moving on to new technology is a bit harder...

That is excellent news. I am looking forward to trying tonight. I'm still curious what it is going to a server for but we may never find out. Thanks everyone, I enjoyed the chat.

The Denon app might work though as it is basically the same company as Marantz

The fact that it works beyong 10 seconds if the internet is disconnected suggests that the player is doing some sort of validation handshake with a server. It would be reasonable for the player to default to successful if no connection to the internet was possible (so the media player wasn't...

AVR-Remote for Android, free on the play Store is a good implementation of the remote app and the author keeps updating it

There appear to be two threads running on this so I am repeating myself a bit. Unfortunately this is important to me so I want to participate in both threads while this plays out. I totally agree with SiUK. Firmware driven kit was heralded as future proof but has turned out to be quite the...

Since this model has not had firmware updates for years I fear this may be a problem that will not be fixed easily. The bug may be sitting deep in the core. * Edit 20/8/2015* I tried this with both a Synology NAS and a WD World NAS with the same effect. Curiously I also noticed that if you put...

My NR1602 is doing this and I don't think it has had a firmware update. This is very worrying as it is affecting many marantz models. It isn't a synology issue because I tried a wd world nas