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Very good unit for the price. Many inputs, for the most the controls are easy to use. Need to sit down and listen to the different music sources and set the unit according to your preferences. Dolby digital 5.1 is excellent medium. This unit lets you use it with maximum value.

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Sony dtr 901 receiver

cost

no expansion options, surround noise

I bought this as an upgrade from my Nakamichi AV-3s prologic. It did DD pretty good. However, it neither offers 5.1 channels inputs nor 6 channel pre-outs, so no expandability. Surround channel noise is a little excessive in quite movie sections. I miss my Nak. Other than that, everything works fine.

YES! I sold this peice of crap for $255, which is $45 less than I bought it for, but oh well. In surround mode, rear speakers have more static than a Korean A.M. radio station. At 1/3 volume, it's barely loud enough to hear. 120 watts my arse!
DON'T BUY THIS THING!
GET A KENWOOD OR SONY OR SAVE YOUR MONEY FOR A YAMAHA!

Had all the features that higher end units did for less cost,have had it for 3.5 years now,with no problems.Like the DBS digital feature,works well with satilite system.

Gets kinda warmer than i like,volumn control could be better

overall I am very happy with the unit,has given me problems at all

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a couple of the older JVC recievers

All in one

Not enough total power

I liked the unit until about a month ago when it just died.

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Seperate decoder/Amp setup

Great display and features for the money. Built in Dolby Digital decoder.

The Volume control could be a little more sensitive.

I purchased this reciever to replace my old JVC 709v, for the addition of Dolby Digital. This reciever is great has all the features I will ever use (and some that I wont). Great power and features for the money. JVC's Compulink makes it awesome if you own other JVC components. Back panel has the right connections for just about any component you can think of. The fiber optic connection makes it sound great with a matching DVD player. Overall I think this reciever is good value for the money and would recommend this to anybody, though it is more sutied for home theatre.

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I bought this unit and it is just as good as Onkyo, Yamaha, Harmon Kardan, and Technics in stereo because of it's killer amp and power supply section. This is a new high current design and speaker impedance for all 5 channels at once is recommended from 4 ohms to 16 ohms. The down fall is no bass redirection in Pro-logic from the center channel to the mains. So if you own very expensive FULL RANGE speakers, you can not use the bass ability. Also, if you own a PASSIVE sub/sat speaker system, you might as well throw your sub in the garbage because this design ( used often by many brands ) will not let you use it to play back all the bass in the front stage sound track. This receiver requires a separately purchase POWERED SUBWOOFER. Oh, the brands listed above also have problems which makes them undesirable to purchase. Onkyo 747 has the same bass redirection problem. Yamaha has video distortion, Harmon Kardan AVR-55 has no s-video input/outputs and AVR-85 has no phono input, I didn't even check for the bass redirection problem, the Technics have a history of noise, bad frequency response, and Pro-logic decoder overload from cds or LD recordings that play at the 0 db reference level. All other receivers I heard didn't even have an amplifier section that could do justice to the music or sound track because of loss of dynamics and definition in the music and worse in the bass area. I can give this receiver only a two, since you can only use 50% of what it offers, STEREO. Also, there is no tape monitor.

I got this JVC 884 for just $385 with DD, S-video, optical out x2, How can you go wrong with this price?

I ordered this product online for about $380. I am very dissapointed with the sound and the overall quality of the unit. The DSP modes are quite pathetic, only adding annoying and tiring echo to the music. There are plenty of inputs, one of the features that will sell this unit. The remote is crowded, cheap, and IMO ugly. The unit heats up way too much during even moderate use. There's way too much distortion and hiss even in AC-3. It is especially evident with higher end speakers. DON'T BUY THIS UNIT! I'm going to return it and either pick up a Yamaha 793, H/K AV55, or a Kenwood VR-2080.

I bought this receiver through a mail order company for about $380, which is a good deal for a receiver with dolby digital built-in and everything. Anyway I really dont have any complaints. The amp is supposed to be some new design by JVC, which seems to be very good. I am guessing they only put their good amps in their higher end stuff because some of their cheaper receivers are really pretty poor sounding... There are a lot of neat glitzy features and is very nice looking too. I dont seem to see the problem it is supposed to have with bass with dolby dig/pro logic. I dont have a powered sub and the bass output seems to be just fine. I guess it depends on the listener. Overall very good!