Customer Ratings & Reviews

First time jumping to a 9 channel system and worth every penny The sound is so clear and precise This system is amazing

Replaced an onkyo unit that overheated and fried at 3 months, this one stays cool with the same speaker set up

My speakers came alive! Great sounding receiver. Set up was difficult - especially getting the 3 zones to work. No manual provided in the box. Still not sure I have tamed this beast. I replaced a 100w per channel Yamaha amplifier with an Adcom preamp tuner with this Pioneer tuner.

Replaced an aging Harmon Cardon receiver with this, and I am very happy. Haven’t really had a chance to play with all the tuning features yet as we are redoing our living room right now and upgrading a bunch of equipment. So far everything has worked quickly and easily, my wife doesn’t find it complicated to use which is a big plus, and I am happy with the sound. A little spendy but worth it in my opinion.

An amazing audio and video receiver with all the latest technology that you need. Ease of operation of the Pioneer Elite unit in support of TV, tuner, Blue Rey CD/DVD, Bluetooth, Vinyl record turntable, or any accessory is superb.

I purchased the Pioneer Elite VSX-LX305 for my medium sized home theatre (~1500 cubic feet). It generally had some thump but, despite advertising it is "IMAX Enhanced and Dolby Vision compatible" it never was able to detect IMAX Enhanced content nor did it play content in Dolby Vision when video signals were routed to the receiver. The Dolby Vision may be a problem particular to my Apple TV streaming box, which would not play 4K Dolby Vision through the receiver, but would through my Sony 85" full array TV. Obtaining tech support for Pioneer products is challenging if you can get someone on the phone, and even then they did not have a definitive solve for the IMAX Enhanced issue. No backlit remote in home theatre also quite disadvantageous. The crossover frequency cannot be adjusted for individual speakers, there is only one setting for all of them. The receiver also did not do well porting sound out to my surround speakers - they always sounded too low despite room correction using MCACC or Dirac Live.

Awesome amp receiver Easy setup great sound setup

Great item. Super easy to pair with any passive speakers you have regardless of brand. Amazing app and amazing sound correction.

Excellent, I got first the vsx 935 and returned since the back surround channel was almost dead; so, I got this one and wow. After the calibration using the included Dirac live the sound is even better!! 100% recommend

The Pioneer 305 like the Onkyo 7100, which I returned, have major HDMI switching issues that need to be addressed before I can recommend either. When switching from one HDMI function, say DVD, to another, say cable/sat, both receivers hang, go blank, go silent, turn screen white, blonk on and off or just freeze. This is a SERIOUS issue with HDMI reliability. My system is not complicated: Sony TV, OPPO DVD played, Comcast cable box. That's it! I still have the Pioneer VSX LX305 and will keep it since I found a work-around that involved me disconnect my Comcast cable box from HDMI 1 and plugging it into my TVs HDMI 1 input. For $1,300.00 I should be able to use every Pioneer/Onkyo input. I never had this issue with my Marantz NR1710, which I have as a back-up, as it is a 7.1, 50W per channel, as opposed to my newer 9.1, 100 watt Pioneer. Bottom lone: the Onkyo and Pioneer, both from the same parent company need a serious and IMPORTANT furmway HDMI update. Untill then, look fir another brand.

Finally, a Receiver that made me retire my 40 year old Marantz driving Bose speakers. I purchased the Elite Pioneer and then slowly replaced my speakers with Klipsch. Not sure about Dolby Atmos working as designed. Grandson said pops, stop all that adjusting and just put some Teddy Swims on, I said who? Now, I love my Grandson music and he loves, mine, What a wonderful world. Problem is son and grandson are spending too much time at my house.

Movie theater class experience unmatched with 7.2.2 set up. Easy to navigate set up out of the box.

Not used for music just as AVR in family room. Works well for its price build quality is good as well. Onscreen menu very easy to setup.

Works great bang for your buck! Sounds great in our TV room!

This was my very first receiver to buy as i usually stuck with soundbars and i gotta say this machine blew my mind when i turned this baby on and thought oh no more soundbars for me. Easy to use Im still in Process of figuring out my sound out points so im testing all types of movies that have lot of action

Setting up basement for surround sound and this product a key component of achieving this success. Thank you.

Set up was easy, a huge upgrade for my entertainment system.

This was on clearance I felt I got a good deal on a nice unit

Excellent receiver, has great sound has Dirac live

being a life time favorite of Pioneer products, pleased as allways, I'm going to get in touch with Geek sqad for some technical settings on this receiver. Still being old school I'm using my bose AM-7 Series that I purchased in 1994 which still sounds like they were bought yesterday.