Customer Ratings & Reviews

Great sound quality. Easy to set up. Has enough power to play my 10 inch pa speakers. Bluetooth is easy to pair and working even if the device is not in the same room.

Works great and easily replaced an STR-DH720. Reason for upgrade was to support a 4K Blu ray player and future proof for Dolby Atmos and DTS:X sound. Only drawback is that Sony continues to make a slightly user-unfriendly interface. Auto calibration worked fine, but I'm not always sure if I'm correctly receiving (and then correctly decoding) the highest quality audio from multiple sources: set-top box, Blu ray player and then the TV itself. STB and Blu ray are easier to understand (using the "information" button), but difficult to understand if the TV is correctly passing high quality audio to the STR-DH790.

High quality audio and video with easy system set up all in one!! It has a great basic start up, or if you're an audio engineer you have the ability to control the audio to fit the room you're in.

I picked up this receiver during one of Best Buys Black Friday sales for $350.00 The unit has a sleek look and gives good sound for my purposes. But,unlike my old Pioneer 5.1 receiver that showed a grid of each channel in use on the display, this one just displays name of the sound format. It handles pass through well. I have a small room setup so this receiver is fine for me. The remote does not have a back light.

Quality Sony receiver that is easy to set up & easily handles our surround sound speakers powerfully. The central control to a great sounding system . Great value from Sony!

This reciever supports all the latest surround sound formats. It is now on sale for $200 which is a fantastic and unbelievable price. For the money, this is the best reciever out there. We are extremely happy about our purchase. Yesterday I ordered the Sony Dolby atmos speakers on sale for $99 from Best Buy and can't wait to try them out. The auto calibration feature is very easy to set up. I would heartily recommend this to anyone.

I’ve had this receiver for 3 weeks and I’m loving it! It does everything i need it to very well. I had a soundbar and subwoofer, but I wasn’t getting the movie theater experience. So when i saw Sony’s Home Theater Speakers on sale for half price, I bought them. And they had $25 off this receiver, so i bought it. Setup was easy. This system sounds so much better than the soundbar and subwoofer i had. It’s like i have a movie theater in my living room again!

Bluetooth, easy on screen setup. Lots of power, and more speaker outputs than I have speakers! Just don't have a bright light by the remote sensor, will cause problems with the remote.

Fantastic simple unit that was effortless to set up. A wonderful unit for the technological challenges. I replaced my parents old Onkyo with this when they upgraded to a 4K tv and needed hdmi for audio. Literally plugged in the receiver and speakers and turned on the unit and arc was already working. It’s perfect for them.

I got a lemon. within a month or two the receiver would go into protect mode and shut down. I started trouble shooting and eventually go to where it would be plugged in all alone in a completely different room and shut down. This review is more to showcase the warranty repair process. It was smooth and very simple. when returned, it worked great for about 6 months. Now going into protect mode again and all warranty periods have expired. I hope this is an anomaly and now as I look to replace it with something that actually works for more than ten minutes at a time,.. I am for the first time considering moving away from a Sony product. I hope everyone else has a better experience with what looked like a very capable receiver.

Easy setup. Quality 7.1 dolby atmos surround sound

Our previous Home Theater Receiver died an early death after 7+ years. The Sony STRDH790 was purchased as a replacement. The tech, (40 plus years in the stereo/ home theater business) recommended the unit and guess what*-It was easy to install and works like a charm after a quick install. Easy to use once installed and no problems of any kind! Highly recommend this unit! who did the replacement

Excellent purchase. The sound imaging is fantastic!

Bought this reciever to replace my dead Pioneer 523. For the price its a very nice reciever with good sound quality Dolby Atmos and DTS-X. Setup was very easy and Atmos sounds awesome.

This receiver more than met my expectations to power my 8 speaker home surround system. Very easy to set up, and at a great price for the features offered.

I purchased this Sony STR-DH790 because of the great price and I quickly came to appreciate the ease of operation and the features this A/V Receiver provides. It doesn't have networking or WiFi but it does have Bluetooth which was one of the primary features I was looking for. A note on Best Buys customer service, I originally had this shipped directly to my home but it arrived with shipping damage. I took it to a local Best Buy store the next day and they replaced it in a matter of minutes. Thanks for the Excellent customer service.

The denon receiver i bought years ago only lasted for maybe two years and the quality on that was not good. This sony is a lot cheaper but is better than the denon

I was interested in a budget home theater sound system. Having gone through several soundbars at different price points and not enjoying the sound experience, it was time to research in store. If you're in the North Dartmouth store, I always lean on Jayden for advice on all things Sony. I gave Jayden my budget and wanted equipment that would play nicely with my 85" Sony X900H (purchased in March 2021). He pointed me towards this receiver, and I have been happy so far. I have a Xfinity 4K DVR and an XBOX Series X running to this receiver with no issues. The only issue I have had so far is running my Apple TV 4K (1st GEN 64GB) through to this. For reasons I can't explain, I get green flashes across my screen when I have Apple TV in Dolby Vision. I tried several fixes (including several HDMI cables), but the only fix was running the Apple TV to my TV (input 4). That aside this is one nice receiver. Movies sound incredible and so does normal TV broadcasts. It is not a huge receiver compared to let's say a Marantz, Denon or JVC to name a few. That's something I like because my entertainment center is just able to accept this receiver. Along with this receiver Jayden pointed me towards these Sony speakers as well. Front towers are model #SSCS3, Center channel model #SSCS8, Rear bookshelf's model #SSCS5 and Dolby Atmos Elevation model #SSCSE. I am using my own subwoofer (Martin Logan Dynamo 500). Overall, a really nice system that didn't cost me a lot of money but is delivering BIG TIME! And if you catch the sales correctly, you can score all this for a better price than I did! I honestly highly recommend everything listed here in my review. Thank you, Sony, for making high quality equipment that didn't break the bank and saved my marriage! ;-)

I have this reciever paired up with a full Sony speaker setup and we are getting way better sound quality than we were with our soundbar. Using this reciever with an apple TV has set the bar for how a simple to use home theater system should operate.

The receiver works very well and was very easy to set up. Very pleased with the quality of the sound.