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Rating: Summary: Excellent sound quality, but some practical tradeoffs Review: The receiver has excellent sound quality and seems to have a lot of options, even though the design of the box is very stylish and not cluttered. The remote is ugly and feels cheap and not sturdy at all, big dissapointment in that! I liked the built in tuned unit, although the antenna is a bit [poor]. Look out for a better antenna if you're into serious radio listinging. I miss the overview of input channel. There are quite a lot (TV, DVD, CD, PHONO, VCR1, ...) and I find myself sometimes scrolling along to find the correct one, as there is no overview on the display. I miss the ability to control bass and treble. The unit gets extremely hot, even when it's just turned on and no music is playing. This makes it difficult to position in a smaller flat, as you would not want to put your other stuff on there, it will just melt. On the other hand, if you live in a small flat, then you should not be buying such a powerful beast in the first place I guess.. Make sure you have the speakers to accompany this, otherwise you loose out on a lot of potential.
Rating: Summary: Very nice Review: This receiver received high marks and is working very well for me so far.The one I got from c.c. had a rear 6th speaker and rush hour 2 dvd included 'for free', which complemented nicely my onky ht500 speaker package. Watching/Listening to Attack of the Clone or Terminator2 was really thrilling. Listening to CDs in DPLII (Dolby Pro Logic II) music mode is nice (NEO 6 is also nice for modern music, a bit artificial sounding for classical though) Sometimes it is a bit confusing with all the modes (many of which don't work depending on the input) and hard to hear a difference. Down sides: - the remote (sliding cover, ugly) is not good - I was expecting a modern receiver like this one to have a graphic equalizer built in, it does not. worse, except in normal analog stereo mode, you can not even adjust bass/trebble. (nor it has the old "loudness" button) - the dynamic range compression adjustments (useful at night) is only accessible through setup on the unit / not easy to turn on/off -> 4 stars (nice quality/price ratio)
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