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AVR Maestro User Guide

Everything you need to set up, connect and master AVR Maestro on your Denon or Marantz receiver. Every screen adapts to your model - the app only shows controls your chassis actually exposes, so your screens may show fewer options than listed here.

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Every screen, explained

Start with setup, then dive into any feature. The marquee topics have their own deep guides; the rest are covered in the sections below.

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Getting started

Requirements, network setup and adding your receiver in under a minute.

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Home Screen

Your customizable home base - widgets for volume, source, sound mode, zones and more.

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Scenes

Save your whole setup and recall it in one tap. The headline feature.

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Custom Icons

Give every input and Scene its own artwork - cropped, shaped and carried in your backup.

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Sound

All nine pages: surround modes, Dialog & DRC, Audyssey, Dirac Live, Graphic EQ, per-channel trims, Tone, IMAX and Auro-3D.

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Graphic EQ

Shape a 9-band curve per speaker when Audyssey and Dirac are off - All, Left/Right or Each.

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Speakers

Layout, distances, levels, crossovers, subwoofer and speaker presets.

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Why a control is locked

Speaker Layout locked, Audyssey unavailable, Graphic EQ held - the full map of what your receiver freezes, and how to unlock it.

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The Assistant

Ask your own receiver a question, or tell it what to change. The model runs on your device.

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Home Automation

Home Assistant, Hubitat and webhooks - your scenes become scripts that run without your phone.

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Home Assistant dashboard

A worked example with the full YAML: live source highlighting, real dB volume, scenes and a graph.

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Zones

Independent Zone 2 and Zone 3 power, input and volume - plus Zone Quick Select and renaming.

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Remote

D-pad, transport, renamable inputs with custom icons, and system controls.

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Radio (FM/AM)

Tune by frequency or recall saved station presets.

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On-Screen Display

Volume readout position or off, the info banner, now playing, 21:9 and the screen saver.

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Settings

Devices, appearance and Color Theme by hex code, audio, help and backup.

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Volume Controls

A hard volume limit, the level it wakes to, how far Mute drops it, and 0-98 versus decibels.

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Backup & Restore

Export every setting to one file and restore it on a new phone - receivers, icons, Scenes and theme.

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Now Playing & HEOS

Album art, track info and transport, plus launching HEOS to browse.

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Widgets & extras

Home-screen widgets on iOS and Android, backup/restore everywhere, Android volume keys.

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Supported receivers

Which Denon and Marantz models work, and how to tell.

Get the app and follow along

One-time purchase, no ads, no subscriptions. Connect to your Denon or Marantz in under a minute.

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