Sony STRAZ1000ES Premium ES 7.2 CH 8K A/V Receiver

This is a state-of-the-art Audio-Video receiver. It drives my 5.1 speaker system creating a surround sound environment of a movie theater. It's feature rich providing the interface to support many peripheral devices like CD players, BluRay DVD players, TV connectivity, and more. Add to the hardware support are features like Bluetooth interface. The built in AM/FM tuner allows the storage of many preset favorite broadcasting stations. Last but not least is the amazing auto calibration for speaker setup and hand-held remote controller to manage the system

So far so good.

So far I am happy with my purchase since it is an improvement from my previous Sony avr as it really packs a punch. The product seems to be solid and takes some getting use to with all the options it has with calibration. One thing to note when doing the auto calibration is that if you are using high channels and no rear surrounds to make sure to plug them in in the surround option port and not the high channel or the calibration will fail. I have since added my rears and had to reposition the speakers in the back of the avr and ran calibration again. After auto calibration make sure to set up your fronts as small or leave as large if no sub woofers. One thing to note is they will make good speakers sound better and the bad speakers sound bad because of how good the avr dac is. With the little time I have using it I can tell that it is about 10% louder the my previous Sony STRDH590 and a vast improvement when it comes to how good the voices come through on all movies. Hope this helps anyone looking to purchase this unit.

I really like this upgrade. This is my 3rd Sony. I like Sony, Yamaha, and Denton brands, but chose Sony. Previous Sony’s were getting old. A bit pricier, but I believe worth it. The only thing I noticed is that I may need newer surround speakers to match this receiver, and a newer subwoofer. Current older speakers do not carry the surround sound volume to its fullest sound effects. I like the extra features of which I don’t need to use all of them at this time. I like the feature of using wireless, but not needed as well. Installation took awhile because of the new features, like different zones. But I was able to move through it after starting over and retrying. All in all, this works for me.

Actually it should be 3.5 stars. The product itself is good for what I wanted to do. Replace two outdated high end receivers that don't have HDMI outputs. The reason for the rating is the fact that SONY has to make it easier to connect to it's compatible equipment. In this case paring the STRAZ 1000 ES receiver with the Sony A95L Television. I could not get the television/Receiver combo to output the in room speakers when in television mode. It recognized the 5 speakers and 2 subs in FM Mode but not in TV mode. I worked on it for 2 hours then stopped. I had a friend come over who installs equipment like this for a living and it took him 4 hours. It ended up being to many menus and the Auto Sync not really being Auto. He had to go in and manually make selections in the receiver menu and TV Menu to finally get them to talk. And Amazon..You have to do better in the packing department. Receiver Box in a Bigger Box with no packing.