Great Product. Great for Surround Sound and DVD. If you can find it for under 150.00, I strongly suggest you purchase this item. Great surround at 100w x 5!!!

Fan goes off and on; thus leaving it the possibility to overheat. Keep it cool with a fan or keep it out of a cabnet.

Awesome product for the buy. Creates perfect sound.

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Aiwa....3M.

a ton of features for the price

no bass,over heats

this reciever has great features but this thing has no bass output and a lot of disortion. If you have any speakers under 8 ohms this receiver is massively hot after only a half hour of use. Litterly you could fry an egg on it!!!

strong bass, 4 speaker output in stereo mode, ice cold on full power

remote kinda' sucks
gets hot on low volume

Great stuff

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sony str-de425

None - a gift wrapped piece of junk

THD, overheats, signal to noise ratio

Don't buy Techics unless your speaker are 8 ohms and don't require more than 20 watts to drive them. Spend some more money and get a decent receiver - like a Yamaha 950SV - you will be glad you did in the long run!

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Yamaha

Nice bang-for-buck, good sound, plenty-o-power, 5.1 ready.

Runs pretty warm, weak remote.

I've had this unit over a year now. Got it at best buy for $200 open box plus the Technics AC-3 decoder for $150 open box. Pretty inexpensive way into AC-3 at the time, and I've been real happy with its performance. I've put a lot of time on this unit, and it's still running same as always. It does get pretty hot in my component rack, so I mounted a fan and plugged it into the back of the receiver. So, if the receiver is on, the fan is on. I haven't used some of the higher end stuff, but I really can't complain about how this receiver performs. Great product for its price range.

sound quality and power

heating problem
remote is crappy
no bypass or bass increase ):

its good for those peps wanting a good sounding amp but it requires alot of babying by witch i mean no cabnets and nothing ontop of it

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teac

Lots of power, excellent sound quality.

Universal remote could be better designed. Also, it controls other brands of TVs and VCRs, but only Panasonic DVD players.

I was looking for a Home Receiver that was digital ready with lots of power and has good or great sound quality. All this and I was also looking for a low price.

The SA-AX730 was rated tops by Consumer Reports and I was able to purchase it for $279 Cdn. 5 channels x 100 watts, 5 sound fields, and it's digital ready.

I am extremely pleased with this unit. I am still amazed I was able to get this kind of quality for the price I paid. You can spend two to three times what I did and still not get anything significantly better. Great value.

100W x5, DVD ready, good price, nice sleek design, 5.1,

no Dolby Digital decoder, gets really hot

I was able to buy this on sale for 249 CDN. A real steal of a deal. My only regret is that it doesn't have the DD decoder. My advice is to spend the extra dollars and buy a receiver with the decoder (SAAX930/940), for future digital tv/satelite. It is dificult to get the bass out of the speakers with this unit, but is managed if you have a decent sub. An awesome buy if you don't want the DD.

Gets a 5 for value but a 4 overall b/c of the heat and no DD