Customer Ratings & Reviews

For what I consider to be a standard size living room(12X20ish), this A/V Receiver is more than capable. OK, so there is this one thing. Every time you turn on your receiver/TV (using ARC), you will get a splash screen for setup and it CANNOT be dismissed or told to NEVER COME ON. I suspect this is why I was able to buy my receiver for only $200 (open box)! If you are a home theater enthusiast, on a budget and you don't mind clicking two more buttons, then this is a GREAT buy. OH YEAH! - mine did not come with a remote, which almost swayed me, until I fond it on EBAY for $13 and bought it before I even left Best Buy with the receiver.

this receiver delivers all the power you need with all the function capabilities to give you a rich full sound and at a great price.

Needed a receiver to work with my built in surround speaker... I was amazed at how powerful the Sony 5.1 is. Also works well with our wireless mic when we have karaoke at home.

Great sound for the price. The unit was also very easy to install

Easy to set up and great sound. I have it connected to my tv, dvd player and cd player. Would definitely recommend!

Easy to assemble and make work with quality sound. It was the fit for me. What more can I say?

This receiver is the best! Inexpensive, easy set up and the sound is amazing. Really loving the Bluetooth feature that allows me to connect my cellphone to play music.

Sony doesn’t disappoint. This unit amplified sound from Tv through my old Aiwa subwoofer and surround speakers. Setup is a breeze, Bluetooth connection is a snap. Highly recommend

Not a very sophisticated receiver but a good value for the money. My old Harman Kardon was a great unit but too massive for my new TV stand. This unit fit perfectly and was priced right.

just what i needed works good simple price was right. hooked up easy looks good. not to big,

Great product, My dad love it, It was a Christmas present for my daddy & he ended up blasting some corridos for New Year's Eve.

we bought this for our new house, which is all prewired with surround sound speakers in the ceiling and cords running through a box in the closet thru the wall to where the plug and cat-5 wires are. This worked awesome to allow us to utilize the speakers which make it incredible to watch tv and movies. The DVD player is hooked up thru this also, it's like being in the movie theater. The only thing that's frustrating and confusing to me is the time it takes for the components to connect to the video of the TV and we have to keep the closet door open to work the volume control on the receiver. Otherwise works great and for the price serves the perfect purpose.

Compact, clean design, very easy to setup and use. Sounds great.

This is a 5 star product but it's only getting 3 stars because of the incredibly bad user manual. I've seen more people complain about how confused they are by the way the sound fields on the product are implemented. Worse yet, the manual only confounds the confusion. The product comes with many "Sound Fields" ranging from Dolby PLII Movie to weird things like HD-D.C.S. You must select a sound field and this gets us to the heart of the confusion. If you're buying this because you want to hear movies in Dolby Digital or one of the many 5 channel encoding methods, you don't want to select Dolby PLII Movie...you don't want to select any of the available sound fields. You want the unit to sense the movie's encoding method and set itself to that. But you must select a sound field which leads to the confusion. Let's say I select Dolby PLII Movie as my sound field. So what happens when you tune to a station broadcasting in Dolby Digital? By default, the display on the unit scrolls and says that it has sensed Dolby Digital and a DD appears on the front panel. So far so good. But 5 seconds later the display changes to Dolby PLII Movie. Is the unit still decoding in Dolby Digital or is it decoding in Dolby PLII Movie...or is it decoding in a combination of the two. Ugh! The manual makes things worse. There is hardly any mention of Dolby Digital in the manual nor is there are explanation of how the unit decides which decoding method to select. After lots of frustration during which I almost decided to return the unit, I finally figured it out. Almost by accident, I pressed the Display button on the remote and discovered what the unit is actually doing. If you press Display several times, the unit first shows which input is selected (SAT/CATV,etc.) Next it displays briefly which decoding method is in use, but then after a few seconds it displays the selected sound field (Dolby PLII Movie, etc). This is the confusing display because it is showing the selected sound field whether it is being used or not. What's really being used in this example is Dolby Digital and we want the front display to show this as long as it is using this decoding method. If we press Display again, we are shown the volume levels, Finally, and this is key, if we press Display again we are shown the decoding method being used. In this case DD will show up. And DD will now stay on the front display which is what we want. Here's a summary of how the unit actually works. Let's say you select Dolby PLII Movie as your sound field. If we tune to a station broadcasting in Dolby Digital, the unit automatically switches itself to Dolby Digital and displays DD on the front panel. Although we were forced to select Dolby PLII Movie, at this point the unit is not using this sound field. In other words, whenever a 5 channel encoding method is detected, the unit will switch to that regardless of the "sound field" you have selected. Now what happens when we switch to a channel which is not broadcasting in Dolby Digital? Well, now the unit will switch to the selected sound field and will, in this case, decode using Dolby PLII Movie. Nowhere in the manual is this explained. I've seen more people posting that they have no clue how the sound fields work or how to properly select them. SONY needs to hire some people who know how to write user manuals.

So glad I purchased this! Why you might ask? The sound is better than the Marantz system I had before it, at a much lower price point. Makes my Polk Audio speakers sound exceptional. My friend who is a graduate of a music school and former US Marine band member comment that he could hear sounds from his Apple music catalog that he never noticed before. Hats off to Sony!

Great receiver for the money. Easy set up. Good sound quality. Love the media box feature. I would recommend to a friend or family member for sure.

Nice sounding receiver, the menus and setup are a bit confusing. Some stuff needs to be set up from the front panel rather than thru on-screen menus. Makes for a nice surround sound system on a budget. Plenty of power.

Great sound! Easy to set up and easy to use. Does exactly what is needed.

This is an awesome affordable receiver for someone looking to upgrade to hdmi inputs without breaking the the bank. Sound quality is excellent also.

This receiver was easy to set up, and has good quality sound. My only complaint, had to purchase a woofer because the one i had used positive and negative wires vs single mono cord.