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I saw all the other great reviews for this product on Amazon and they were right. Look elsewhere. Funny how things work - "nice" wasn't on my list for now - necessity was.
The folks at J&R Music World also knocked my socks off with an order placed on a Thursday night being received via UPS ground by the following Monday - unheard of in this line of business. On a tight budget and want really good sound for your home entertainment system at a great price. Gotta lot of extra money to waste on bells and whistles.
My old receiver went unexpectedly on me; I had planned to put some money aside and get something "nice" in the future. The folks at Sony did it again with this baby. THIS IS IT.
I couldn't be happier the way things turned out. Very modest price, very big sound with plenty of crisp, clean power.
I'm very pleased. You have all of the hook ups you need and power to spare. This is a very good receiver, nice power, nice sound, very nice price. You could do better but why spend all of that cash.
Very powerfull and detailed sound - very satisfied with this unit. Feeding CD quality audio from my Cox cable box into this system is AWESOME. If you are like me, and have two HDTV viewing areas in your home, it gets pretty old to buy components that cost an arm and a leg. I am leaning towards buying more B.I.C. I hooked this baby up to a B.I.C. I did some research before I ordered this inexpensive Sony A/V Receiver and overall I am quite impressed.
I realize there are much better alternatives, but not anywhere near this price. I still have to buy the center and surround speakers but the actual sound is superb - especially when you factor in the price. For the $178.00 (free shipping too). 12" powered subwoofer coupled with two old Design Acustics three-way bookshelf speakers. speakers to round out this system. that I paid for this thing, it is a very good value.
Be forwarned: the HDMI connection works the video only - you will have to hook up either co-ax or optical cables to make the audio work.
With my situation, my DVD player and TV are not the actual inputs on the receiver, but that's what you get when you buy something like this for so cheap. My only complaint is that if you have a lot of stuff to connect, its really awkward to get everything set up. Well worth living with that since you save so much money, Just write down what component is connected to the back and you'll memorize it in no time. This thing is really the only one in it's class with all the digital connections and options it has. The next comparable ones are $500.
The receivers from other brands I looked at on which you could assign the optical audio inputs to any channel were about $100 out of their budget. Therefore, they have the HD cable box hooked up on the "DVD" channel with a digital coax audio cable while the PS3 is hooked up on "Video 2" with the digital optical audio cable. Really the only negative about this with their setup is that the optical audio inputs are not assignable for different channels.
The built in speakers were horrible. They are using it primarily for an HD cable box and their son's PS3. My aunt and uncle recently got a cheap 32" LCD HDTV.
They are also using it as an HDMI switch. This is only a minor nitpick since it still sounds great. A few months ago, they also got a great deal at a garage sale on some old Bose speakers not realizing they needed a receiver to have surround sound, so they sent me shopping for one to fit their budget.
I purchased the DG510 for them and it sounds amazing.
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