Customer Ratings & Reviews

It is a very good receiver, with a lot of features, plenty of power and easy to set up.

I love Pioneer Elite receivers. They have the Class D digital D3 amps which are very powerful, sounds great and very efficient plus the fact that they can drive 4-ohm speakers with ease unlike many Class AB amps which most manufacturers use. The SC-97 sounds even better than my older SC-67 with better soundstage than the older one, especially with the new MCACC Pro. Pioneer AVRs have a clean uncluttered look which looks luxurious with their amber displays. Pioneer's MCACC calibration works fine, just as good as Audyssey. The only downside is that Pioneer has terrible remote controls with puny buttons and hard to read print. Since I normally use Logitech Harmony remotes, this is a non-issue. I was so impressed with the SC-97, I bought another one for another room. More so since Pioneer was bought out by Onkyo. This generation models are the last designed entirely under Pioneer. Onkyo is known for shoddy reliability recently and I was concerned about their future models.

Best receiver I’ve owned. And it is future proof. A great investment

I haven't hooked up my receiver yet however I have three buddies that have that same receiver it is awesome

I competed this against the marantz sr7010 and far preferred the sound of this receiver. Unfortunately the Bluetooth is horrible and not usable.

Great product, if you want 9.2.2 this will do well

Great product. Everything you need plus more. Great quality

This was actually quite difficult to set up for my purposes (powering second TV in another room and only using audio through that TV) . It does not give you the custom abilities like my old VSK 1020. You haev select options to select from through a mobile app. Having some issues where it's not sending video signal through HDMI. Having to power down multiple times for it to work. Has happened about 3 times in the last month. One time is one too many for the cost of this product.

Everything worked plug and play as it should. No handshake issues, which is one of the reasons I started looking for a receiver in the first place. Sound was a little off when I first set it up because of my weird room setup but being able to tweak the Pro Mac EQ without losing the settings was great.

Purchased the SC-97 for a new theater build. Long time Pioneer user and love the interface for setup. This receiver had amazing sound but the hdmi input for bluray was inop. Read the SC-95 had this issue so went up a model to avoid the issue but the SC-97 had the same problem. Not available to replace so exchanged for comparable Yamaha receiver.

I have been a long time pioneer fan and upgraded from my sc-35 to this model. I wanted to have digital inputs for my 2nd zone which I was told this would do, I only found out after I installed it that it wasn't able to. I ended up with a Yamaha that accoumplished what I wanted

Pioneer Elite receivers as far as i'm concerned are the best, Love them.

Broken out of the box. 2nd go around with Pioneer. I'm done!

Pioneer makes a great receiver with the new Dolby Atmos encoding. The receiver works and sound great.