Customer Ratings & Reviews

Easy-peasy purchase and pickup. High quality AV receiver upgrading my Yamaha system. About as high quality as you can get without spending lots more.

I just bought this NOT even 3 months ago and I can no longer get sound out of it ! I paid over 700.00 and I cant return it to best buy according to there return policy!

Product is fine (though broke < 1 yr). Best Buy installation - constant cancellation, delays, and non existent customer service to assist.

It works as described, nothing out of the ordinary. 2 reasons I returned, no room for growth and the 2.1 HDMI port would randomly lose single with Apple 4k and PS 5

After waiting for shipping to send it, it came out of the sealed box and when I plugged it in it was already on and would not turn off. Pioneer support said to do firmware upgrade and then it was just stuck on some screen in the setup menu and wouldn't do anything or play any sounds.

Purchased a reboxed unit. Didn’t work and had to return. Inconvenient, however, the return process was handled perfectly

This is definitely worth the wait. I was getting frustrated as i just retured the Maranatz Sr6015..garbage...ran hot..poor apps..sub par sound for the money. Which is why I am leaving this happy reivew for the Pioneer. Great user end product and Dirac is a real winner. I am listenig to the best my room has sounded wirh the Pioneer. The features, power, and sound hit the spot for me. Its been a long wait for a an upgrade and I think peoole will be really happy with this.

The Pioneer VSX-LX305 is a Great sounding receiver especially with Dirac Live Cal. You can have 3 zones playing different sources with 5.1 in main zone. iPhone app. works great. USB Method to speed up start of playing large amount of music files: Put all the files in one folder in the root directory. Put one song file in the root directory or make up a 5 second long mp3 that has silent audio. Click on the one song to start playing the music, after the one song or silent song is played it will start playing the music files in the folder. I have the repeat all and shuffle selected. I tried shorter silent mp3 but didn’t work.

I recently splurged on a FULL Dolby Atmos speaker system, consisting of 4 surrounds, 1 center, and 2 subs. I bought a Denon from a local store on sale and hooked it up. But, the Atmos speakers were dead. Upon a search, I discovered that the 4 surround speaker needed 2 channels each to run both the surround and the attached Atmos speakers on top. So, I found this which cost a little more than a comparable Onkyo (they are made by the same company). I splurged for the Pioneer Elite, which I am very happy with for price. It had better details overall. I'm sure it will go down in price as tech moves forward, but for now if you want FULL Dobly Atmos, this works well.

Im comming from a Sony STR-590 which i ended up gifting to family…. And i adore this receiver… ended up upgrading from sony speakers to all klipsch and the sound is phenomenal!!!! Snagged the receiver for 650$ on amazon… and having chromcast so i can play music through my receiver and all my google speakers at rhe same time

Receiver has great sound. It was a bit confusing for less tech savvy folks to set up since we are not using it for surround sound but for the 3 separate zones. A family member that is more tech savvy had no problems setting it up for us.

Just a fantastic receiver overall. Dirac Live really wowed me but you probably want to bump the bass up a bit after running the room correction. I ultimately returned the unit as I wanted to get full 11 Chanel pre-outs and Auro 3D. But it was a hard choice to return this given the great quality of sound after Dirac Live ran. I’m a big fan of Pioneer receivers.

I have a question in regards to next gen gaming using hdmi 2.1 specifically the xbox series x. What is the desired or most optimal setup??? Ex... Console to AVR to TV or Console to TV (directly) then TV to AVR via the eARC

Another damaged open box best buy needs to do better with the inspection process.