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Sony HT-DDW660 Home Theater System
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Great Deal for the Money
(4 out of 5) by John P Bernat on Jul 26, 2005 (Kingsport, TN USA)You really get your money's worth with this setup. It's simple, easy to set up and even easier to use. My beef was that (perhaps because my unit was not working right) while it's advertised to decode DTS from DVDs, I could never get that function to work. Instead of DTS I got...silence.
Well, maybe it's me. However, it's supposed to be a "no-brainer" setup, sooo...
Well, maybe it's me. However, it's supposed to be a "no-brainer" setup, sooo...
4 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
terrible sound, but maybe mine was defective
(2 out of 5) by A. Altman on Feb 20, 2005 (Washington, DC)I bought this as a gift, and believe me when I say it was a terrible disappointment when I set it up and found that the sound coming out of the center and surround channels (but not the front channels) was completely mangled by the receiver. I tried everything, but no matter what, CDs played in Pro Logic and Dolby Digitial encoded DVDs sounded awful. Strangely, if I played CDs or DVDs in stereo, it sounded great, so I believe there was something wrong with the surround channel amplifiers.
4 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
Better than "BOSE 3-2-1" by far...
(5 out of 5) by Amazon Customer on Aug 18, 2004This is the best home theatere system I ever had. Better than "BOSE
3-2-1" by far!!! Better tan you think.... You can turn it up all the way and the speakers will NOT blow out!! Oh Yeah... This home theatere system is worth .. 5000!!! Crisp and clear sound...
Pro Logic II....DTS....Cinima FX technology (tm).......And much more!!! THIS IS MORE THAN A FIVE STAR HOME THEATERE SYSTEM.........
3-2-1" by far!!! Better tan you think.... You can turn it up all the way and the speakers will NOT blow out!! Oh Yeah... This home theatere system is worth .. 5000!!! Crisp and clear sound...
Pro Logic II....DTS....Cinima FX technology (tm).......And much more!!! THIS IS MORE THAN A FIVE STAR HOME THEATERE SYSTEM.........
3 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
great
(5 out of 5) by Amazon Customer on Aug 4, 2004Im only 12 years old and I say WOW!This system has amazing power,420 watts!If you buy online,order from walmart or amazon cause they have the best policies.But before you buy,make sure to go to walmart and use the demo.Once you use the demo,you'll find out how amazing this is!
P.S.This system is great for a small to gigantic room!
P.S.This system is great for a small to gigantic room!
31 of 62 people found the following review helpful:
you get what you pay for!
(1 out of 5) by Eduardo Nietzsche on Mar 30, 2005 (Houston)This is a perfect illustration of that old saw.
A friend of mine just bought a movie projector and, running low on cash, decided to buy this pathetic little thing instead of a REAL home theater sound system.
Well, what can I say...his projector is awesome, blows away plasma TVs that cost 5 times as much and has 5 times the picture size...but this cheesy little Sony totally drags it all down.
I don't know what the other reviewers here have been smoking, or how much they are paid by Sony, but this system is just horrendous. The little receiver has very few connections so if you have multiple sources (let's say, a DVD player, a CD player, a VCR, an X-box, and a cable box) count on pulling out and plugging in different wires all the time.
When listening to movies or TV, the sound is somewhat OK about 70% of the time like when listening to the evening news. But when you get to climactic scenes in movies or TV shows with sudden bursts of sound the lousy bargain basement speakers sound like they're about to fall apart---lots of distortion, buzzing, and resonance especially the wimpy subwoofer which has about two notes: fwoom and gggrind. The center channel hopelessly garbles dialogue, and the surround channels are wimpy at best...the speaker cables are those cheap tiny 24 gauge lamp cord cables that you cannot disconnect to upgrade, you're just stuck with them.
And may the Good Lord help you if you ever even THINK of listening to music on this system...ugh, even my compact stack system sounds better than this!
If you have to buy a home-theater-in-a-box I'd suggest the Onkyo 770 which is around four hundred dollars online, amazing what the extra lousy two hundred dollars can get you.
Better yet, go to vanns dot com and buy yourself a Pioneer 514 receiver for about a hundred fifty bucks, a cheap pair of Polk R15s for a hundred bucks from crutchfield dot com, and a Dayton subwoofer from partsexpress dot com for a hundred twenty five bucks...and I guarantee you that simple four hundred dollar 2.1 system would blow this cheesy Sony joke clear out of the water and probably the Onkyo too.
On the other hand if you want a truly decent home theater system you should set your overall budget at around fifteen hundred dollars. And please, don't even think about Bose that's even worse than this Sony but at ten times the markup.
A friend of mine just bought a movie projector and, running low on cash, decided to buy this pathetic little thing instead of a REAL home theater sound system.
Well, what can I say...his projector is awesome, blows away plasma TVs that cost 5 times as much and has 5 times the picture size...but this cheesy little Sony totally drags it all down.
I don't know what the other reviewers here have been smoking, or how much they are paid by Sony, but this system is just horrendous. The little receiver has very few connections so if you have multiple sources (let's say, a DVD player, a CD player, a VCR, an X-box, and a cable box) count on pulling out and plugging in different wires all the time.
When listening to movies or TV, the sound is somewhat OK about 70% of the time like when listening to the evening news. But when you get to climactic scenes in movies or TV shows with sudden bursts of sound the lousy bargain basement speakers sound like they're about to fall apart---lots of distortion, buzzing, and resonance especially the wimpy subwoofer which has about two notes: fwoom and gggrind. The center channel hopelessly garbles dialogue, and the surround channels are wimpy at best...the speaker cables are those cheap tiny 24 gauge lamp cord cables that you cannot disconnect to upgrade, you're just stuck with them.
And may the Good Lord help you if you ever even THINK of listening to music on this system...ugh, even my compact stack system sounds better than this!
If you have to buy a home-theater-in-a-box I'd suggest the Onkyo 770 which is around four hundred dollars online, amazing what the extra lousy two hundred dollars can get you.
Better yet, go to vanns dot com and buy yourself a Pioneer 514 receiver for about a hundred fifty bucks, a cheap pair of Polk R15s for a hundred bucks from crutchfield dot com, and a Dayton subwoofer from partsexpress dot com for a hundred twenty five bucks...and I guarantee you that simple four hundred dollar 2.1 system would blow this cheesy Sony joke clear out of the water and probably the Onkyo too.
On the other hand if you want a truly decent home theater system you should set your overall budget at around fifteen hundred dollars. And please, don't even think about Bose that's even worse than this Sony but at ten times the markup.