Kenwood VR-3090 Surround Receiver

Rating:
Summary: Great sound, poor remote
Review: I've had my 3090 for about a year and love the sound. It has plenty of inputs for all my A/V equipment and looks great as a centerpiece for my system. I have the matching 200 disk player, and being able to see the names of every song on every CD on my remote is cool. As I said before, the sound is outstanding. On the bad side, while seeing all the cd song names on the remote is cool, it was a BIG pain to setup. The rest of the system setup was no better or worse then any other system. The remote does become more conversation piece then usefull tool because it is so slow to respond, but very quick to "go to sleep". I generally still use my component remote controls for just about everything except switching components or volume. All in all I like the system, but Kenwood really came up short on the remote. If they could have gotten that one item to work better then this would be a first class system.

Rating:
Summary: Great sound, poor remote
Review: I've had my 3090 for about a year and love the sound. It has plenty of inputs for all my A/V equipment and looks great as a centerpiece for my system. I have the matching 200 disk player, and being able to see the names of every song on every CD on my remote is cool. As I said before, the sound is outstanding. On the bad side, while seeing all the cd song names on the remote is cool, it was a BIG pain to setup. The rest of the system setup was no better or worse then any other system. The remote does become more conversation piece then usefull tool because it is so slow to respond, but very quick to "go to sleep". I generally still use my component remote controls for just about everything except switching components or volume. All in all I like the system, but Kenwood really came up short on the remote. If they could have gotten that one item to work better then this would be a first class system.