JBL - MA710 90W 7.2ch Bluetooth and WiFi Capable HDR and Dolby Atmos 8k Ultra HD Compatible AV Home Theater Receiver - Black

Great product I love the sound. It’s encouraging to get more JBL products. now, I will be getting some JBL speakers. This system is easy set up easy programming.

I purchased the JBL MA710 A/V receiver during a sale at Best Buy. The MA710 provides 6 HDMI ports which are plenty for my secondary home theater system in a spare guest room. The 110 watts with Dolby Atmos through an older pair of JBL speakers and center channel soundbar sounds excellent. Setting up remote use through app is a little wonky and might discourage some people, but not of extreme importance for my use.

It’s absolutely awesome! I like it so much! JBL has very nice design and looks like IPhone in the world of receivers! The quality of sound is like in class “A-B”

The JBL MA710 is a top notch receiver. I really appreciate the minimalist modern design. It is packed with a bunch of modern features such as Dolby Atmos, DTS:X, eARC, Airplay 2, Google Chromecast, Bluetooth, Aptx Adaptive, optional Ethernet connection, and WiFi. It comes with 6 HDMI 4K with 3 inputs supporting 8k video and 1 output supporting eARC. The amplifier can connect up to 7.2 channels. The receiver looks and feels solid. It whoops 110W per channel with a max of 160 at 4 ohms and supports 2 subs. The unit comes with a quick start guide. The guide states to install the JBL premium app which I really think needs some improvements or redesigned, at least for iOS. In addition to the JBL premium app there is an EZ EQ application (room correction) that is recommended to download in order to calibrate your room to the ideal EQ settings. This app could be a little complicated especially for those who are new to this type of audio system setups. There is no guidance on what steps to take to start the calibration process. The EZ EQ app has some way to go. However, this can be easily solved with app updates. The receiver has a few options to customize the sound levels from each speaker connected. There is a setting to hear a tone from each connected speaker to make sure you are getting sound. You also have the option to adjust bass and treble and change the Dolby Surround sound and disable or enable the sound decoder. You can also change the settings to just hear stereo sound from 2.1 channels instead of all the channels. I listened to music through my apple tv 4k and I was able to get Dolby Atmos/Spatial Audio sound. The sound was superb. I also used Airplay to listen to music but the signal was not transmitted in Dolby Atmos, instead it changed to Stereo. In stereo it sounds good but Dolby Atmos/Spatial Audio is a game changer. When I used the Tv’s OS the receiver automatically changed from the Apple TV input to the eARC input so that the sound was from the television and not the Apple TV. Everything was responsive. I prefer using the Apple TV as I get the best audio (Dolby Atmos) and (Dolby Vision) video format going through the JBL receiver. The remote is simple but useful, you can change the inputs and change the settings with it. The settings menu shows on the receiver screen and also on the tv screen when a tv is connected. The controller also has an option to dim the receiver display. Lastly, batteries are included for the remote.The same buttons are located in the receiver in case you lose the controller. I have this receiver pair with the JBL Stage 2 series: 200P subwoofer, 250B bookshelf speakers, 280F floorstanding, 240H Dolby Atmos speakers and 245C center channel. Overall the receiver is responsive and it packs power. It has a great minimal design that would blend with modern decor. It is easy to use and set up. It supports most of the modern features, including 8K. In the box you get the receiver, remote, batteries, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth antennas, power cord and quick start guide.

I currently have 4 full surround setup in my home (Family Room, Outside, Master Bedroom and Master Bath).  All are connected with AirPlay, and Google Cast.  So I'm familiar with "Stereo/Surround systems").  The system in my living room has a pretty good surround bar.  For years I've been  threatening to upgrade it, but my wife is fine with what we have, I'm not so much.  So I thought I'll do my upgrade in stages. First install the stereo components, then add center and rears.  Followed by a sub and Atmos "High" speakers.  The JBL MA710 receiver has all the features I'm looking for in the end, and the streaming functionality appears to be pretty complete.  Today with multiple smart devices connected to a system there are multiple ways to obtain audio/video sources. The MA710 has support for HDMI 8K signaling, this future proofs it somewhat, us in the US there are currently no 8K signal sources (FYI: there are in Japan and Korea).  But without a 8K TV, it really does not matter today (the 8K inputs can be used with HD or 4k inputs).  I am impressed with Dolby Atmos; vs its predecessors and DTS:X.  Although the MA710 does support Dolby Digital and DTS:X.   Installation of the receiver is almost automatic. The manual has a QR code that installs either an Android or iOS setup app.  From there it finds your receiver and walks you throught network setup, and a firmware upgrade process.  As long as your receiver is on to begin with the process is simple and flawless.  It set up a huge number of Streaming "radio" stations.  It also sets up hundreds of popular podcasts.  Based on how this was done I'm sure it will get updated regularly by JBL.  It also finds UPnP devices on your network (not all seem to be supported).  You can also connect a USB drive (for what?).  Bluetooth support is state of the art supporting BT: 5.3, Low Energy, APTX HD, APTX Adaptive.  It supports Apple AirPlay 2 and Chromecast.  It can be voice controlled with Google Home; considering I have over 100 devices controlled via Google home, I'm looking forward to this.  The JBL setup app is just the beginning.  They also have an EZ Set EQ app. which allows you to use your phone/tablet to equalize room acoustics (considering the speaker set up) you move around the room and tones come from the speakers in use.  You can also indicate if you prefer more or less bass. But unfortuntaly the EQ functionality can not manually be adjusted via their app (like most competing products).  Given that receivers today are primarily digital, this makes so much sense (excpt to it not being user adjustable).  This is great idea that is done in the same way several other manufacturers deal with speaker tuning (which is really what their EQ is doing).  I've used software like this to tune speakers or headphones before. And years ago my high end receivers had a microphone to do this, but it was not nearly as visual/easy to do.  And given my plans to add more speakers in the future this is a great tool to have/use. Not to mention it does a superb job.  The curve that arrived with is pretty close to what I'd have expected.  JBL also can interface (as is out of the box) with Control4 home control systems, Crestron and IP home control systems like Home Assistant (more for users to do here, but it's an open, well documented system). The receiver is a full 7.2 system with 110W RMS (20Hz-20kHz) @8Ω and 160W RMS @4Ω.  It has one optical input, one digital coax input and 2 stereo analog inputs (one can be used with a MM phono input).  It also has a secondary output zone, which is only stereo (I'd prefer to also have a second HDMI output so that two JBL MA710's could be linked together (I believe JBL's 'HP' receivers offer this).  I did my listening tests with two JBL 260F floor standing speakers.  I'll start by saying this combination is plenty loud.  At 35% it is loud enough to fill my 16x24 living room. I listened to Boston's first album and the sound was excellent, the speaker tuning improved the sound of the speakers in the listening room significantly.  Given this was only stereo it was excellent, not quite what I have in my other systems, but this is a huge step up from a sound bar.  The surrounding richness came throught very nicely.  I then listened to Pink Floyd's Animals, also great (and I know every note).  I then listened to the new Top Gun in 4k, I had to set the surround to Stereo 2.0, but the quality of the sound still rocked the room, not quite chest thumping, and the center vocals were deficient, but that was to be expected. All and all I'm very impressed, I have some wiring issues to overcome, but I'm convinced that seperate speakers still blow away what you can get out of a soundbar (and I have a good one).  It's now matter of hiding and getting wires to some speakers, the fact that the 260F speakers can have a set of 240H speakers placed on top of them to add height speakers, I see as an advantage, but I want to try rear high speakers before I decide.  Building a real Dolby Atmos 7.x setup requires a commitment.  I'm also almost there, getting and testing this receiver helped me move forward.