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I recently purchased this item; bought it online for 569.00. Excellent sound, some smart features, I get very good FM radio reception. I have it linked to other Sony products including the KDL 52XBR9 and a Sony BluRay player, so it all comes up with one button. A bit cumbersome to make changes in equalizer and other functions. But then, I exchanged this with a 20 year old sony es receiver.

Is it just me or are all home theater receivers just too feature-packed? I'm relatively tech savy, but this thing is humbling. More ways to set this thing up than any non-professional would ever need. The result is that it is too complicated for my wife and 6 year old daughter to use without the Logitech universal remote which I have pre-programmed by activity. While it hurts my ego to admit it, I think I'm probably using less than 50% of its true capabilities as well. I have the following running through it: Cable HD/DVR (connected via HDMI), XBOX 360 (via HD component), PS3 (via HDMI), old Toshiba CD changer (via toslink),a 50 inch 1080p Panasonic Viera plasma tv and a decent set of Polk speakers. My favorite activity is, believe it or not, playing Pandora internet radio over the PS3. Both movies and music sound great.

Overall very pleased with its performance after several months of daily use in my main home theater set up. It does get hot in the AV cabinet, so I make sure to leave the door open when in use -- especially if playing with the XBOX 360, which used to sit just below the Sony receiver; I had to move it a few shelves down and cut more space out of the back to ensure better air flow. No image problems compared to plugging directly from the cable HD box to the TV, but then again I don't really see much improvement in the upscaling performance over letting the TV handle this operation.

I was not prepared for the menus GUI, cinema settings, Hdmi ... etc. It was tough start because I had a new 52' Sony TV,blue ray player, new speakers with the receiver.
I am a novice with this but eventually I figured it all out.
It's a very impressive system for the cost and I'm learning more about it every day!

Sony STR-DA2400ES A/V Receiver


I bought this receiver to replace my Denon AVR-1707 which was an amazing 5.1 receiver as well, but I needed to upgrade to compliment my PS3 and 42" TV. So I needed a receiver with HDMI inputs and I'll tell you. The GUI on this is amazingly easy to work with and the amp in it does a great job on its own(for those without a pre-amp). The ability to adjust between PLXII, Nueral-THX, and Neo6 for non-digital signals to get a great simulated surround was very well developed with this receiver. I highly recommend this receiver for anyone who wants to step up to a great high end receiver. It won't ever compare to a Krel or a Sunfire but for the price its the best I can see using.

I was willing to spend as much as three times what I spent on this receiver but based on my previous experience with Sony ES products plus online reviews, I decided to go with this system.

I particularly like the GUI interface for setting things up. On my system, the sound was slightly muffled until I switched it from 8 ohms to 4 ohms in the setup. (And I mean slightly -- my roommate didn't notice a difference.)

The reason for this purchase is that I wanted a receiver that supported all the latest sound codecs and had HDMI ports and my 10-year-old Sony ES receiver didn't have either. I'm doing a big Blu-ray upgrade of my home theatre!