Customer Ratings & Reviews

Great sound and easy set up. Fills my large Marantz speakers with sound. Very pleased.

I am really impressed with the way this receiver has helped to improve the sound of movies & TV. I am just using it in a 3.1 configuration and it fills the family room (my man cave) with great sound. I like that I can add surround speakers later. It quickly adjusted the sound from the speakers to the room. Knowing that it is so quick to adjust allows us to change things in the room without worrying about needing a long calibration time.

Solid built,Very good sound,easy to set up, would definitely recommend.

Awesome sound system, easy to use and hook up multiple devices to a better sound

the sound is awesome the controls the watts just love and the price great

Nothing fancy, but it gets the job done at a reasonable price.

I figured that this was just going to be another run of the mill receiver to replace a unit that finally died after years of use, but I was pleasantly surprised by the features that it had. It automatically connected to my TV (which is a slightly older model Aquos) and makes switching from one input to another easy without having to change both the TV and the receiver.

I really this receiver - it is easy to set-up and has lots of input/output options. Remote has just the right amount of buttons (no overkill on buttons I have no idea what they do). I give it only 4 stars because the only way to adjust the bass/treble output manually is by hooking the receiver up to the the tv via hdmi cable which is just annoying and cumbersome to change and really unnecessarily takes up an HDMI input on the tv.

good for the price - does the job, had to use it for my ceiling-inbuilt speakers and it makes them work just fine, distributes the sound well between the front and rear speakers. has some nice hall/stadium/jazz settings for different output. Makes a weird and loud click sound when it's turned on but it's okay I guess. would recommend to others who are looking at making a basic set of speakers work

It was exactly what I was looking for since my husband died I don't know the first thing about it. It's very easy to use, I used geek squad to hook it up and he was awsome as well

Great product. Great voice. Clear crystal. Easy to use, and install

Very nice 5.2 receiver. very easy to set up and use. the sound quality is awesome and handshakes very nicely with my sony tv. I was looking for something simple and not too complicated like the pioneer i used to have and this is a great option. I had some issues with the video and audio not syncing properly which is mostly fixed by switching the tv to game mode.

Wanted a quality receiver to go with my Yamaha speakers. Great sound, easy to set up and calibrate.

Replaced it with an old amp and the installation was very easy. Great sound.

This was my first reciever I ever bought and I can honestly say I'm satisfied the setup up was simple and it worked as advertised. The more I played with it the more movies I watched and the more I did my research I realized I should of spent a little bit more for a more top tier reciever. This one does the job but has limitations as far as sound and features on my next purchase I'm definitely going bigger like 7.1 with atmos and all the bells and whistles.

I had to change the receiver from sony to Yamaha. Brad, the installer from Best Buy, said that the wire configuration was not meant for the Sony model. He was right and I ordered the Yamaha and it was perfect. Brad did a great job explaining the different setup and after using it I realize that the cord cutting and getting rid of all the other devices and adding Roku was the right thing to do. Thanks,Brad

The quality is great and what’s expected from Sony. It was fairly easy to set up and get listening.

but a nice unit for the $$. My speakers are 30years old but sounded much better with the old sony reciever. .

If you want to build a home theater system on a budget, this fits the bill. Just don't expect too much. For example, it comes with a microphone for automatic calibration just like more expensive receivers, but this one incorrectly identified my center channel and fear soakers as "large" even though they obviously can't produce low frequencies. The automatic calibration in general was kind of buggy and finicky, unlike the auto calibration on Yamaha receivers. It lacks any network connectivity, which only really matters for firmware update and streaming internet radio. You probably won't need the former, and the latter is becoming obsolete. Most people interested in listening to music over the internet would probably just install Spotify on their smart TV anyway. I have not tried this with an Audio Return Channel yet, but it works fine both as a bluetooth receiver (for much better sounds quality than you're likely to get from a self-container Bluetooth speaker) and it functions well at 5.1 sound for a basic home theater. If you agree trying to build a component home theater system on a budget, this is a decent centerpiece for your home theater. On the other hand, if you're willing to spend the money on a component home theater system instead of a sound bar, you may want to consider some of the more feature-rich receivers that are around $100 more expensive.

This receiver was easy to set up and even easier to use. The sound is great.