Customer Ratings & Reviews

Awesome I’m enjoying it as I type this message out

The sound is truly surrounding and each speaker gets a background or speaking system. Switching from TV, DVD Player, Music, and Games is simple and easy to use. I love everything about the tuner.

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!

A solid low priced receiver. Had good sound quality and very easy set up and ease of functions. Could have had better tone controls. Important to some old school users.

Does everything I wanted, at a good price, makes my existing speakers sound even better

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

My husband loves his birthday present, super loud and displays his name on the from when he does Bluetooth. The menu to this also pops up on the TV

This receiver isn't the easiest to use and set levels of speaker outputs. Once you figure out how to navigate settings, the sound it delivers is surprising! Excellent highs, lows, and surround. I'm glad I picked this Sony receiver!

This has been a great purchase! Easy setup, I love the feature where it automatically turns on once I turn the tv on. Seamless set up. Clean sound. Great value!

Pretty easy to set up, great sound. Bought it open box and really like it with my Klipsch Speakers.

I am really happy I bought this receiver. Places the old speakers I have , like new. Powerful, easy to hook up. JUST WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR. Don't let the low price fool you. GREAT!!!!!

This receiver replaces one we had for many years. The difference in the sound is very noticable. Very easy to hook up. Very pleased overall.

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

Would def recommend this product... remote works perfect. Sounds great. HDMI ports for multiple sources. Bluetooth works great... sound quality is awesome

Purchased this back in 2018 works excellently. Has 4 hdmi I can connect my tv, ps4, Blu-ray, pretty much any media device. Sounds great. Haven't has any issues.

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.

I bought this receiver to build a home theater as cheap as possible but this receiver doesn't feel cheap. It has great quality and powers the Polk speakers I bought with it very well.

This unit is awesome!!! Lots of options and so much power, it sounds amazing and I would recommend it to anyone. So very p!ease with this purchase

This is a great little unit. Super easy to set up and now we have awesome surround sound as opposed to the kind of sorta surround sound with our old unit. I highly recommend.

I am not an audiophile but the sounds I hear are fine. I bought this model as it has Bluetooth. It is super easy playing your cell phone through this receiver when you are around the house.