Cheap Good sound Preamp output and 5.1 inputs

Few DSP modes Remote don't have a lot of functions like switch beetween analogic and digital inputs Speakers setup

Cheap and quality product. Good sound, but a few DSP presets. It has a weakness with the loudspeaker configuration. If you set FL-CS-RS (long front speaker, short center and short rear) and subwoofer on, with digital input (al least coaxial), the subwoofer don't play anything. You must set FS-CS-RS or use analog input... Is this a bug? ;-). I have a Vieta subwoofer and Magnat Vintage 105 (also Jamo center and my old philips loudspeakers rear). In spite of this, it's a good amplifier... Good purchase.

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Sony TA-200 Yamaha HTR-5130

Price, features, sound, quality.

No s-video, only one optical and one coax (but think about it: DVD/cd -> Receiver-> TV is all that really needs the digital.

I got the unit for an incredible price on ubid (always bid on the huge lots). This is my first home theater. I wanted to make sure I got the latest decoders (DTS and all that Dolby stuff) , but did not want to pay for the big watts.

The Sherwood sounds very clean and the range clarity is very good, much better than I expected. The physical quality is much better than expected for the price. I have not seen better on the much more expensive models I have been looking at in stores. Look at this unit before you spend another thousand.

I would definately recommend this unit. It has exceeded all my expectations and I don't have that nagging feeling that I should have spent just a few dollars more. I will probably have it a lot longer than originally planned.

The only thing the more expensive models have is more watts and s-video. I am not convinced more watts changes the sound at survivable listening levels.

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First home theater, Have Dynaco and NAD stereo systems.

Dynamic range,surprising reserve power,plenty of features for the money,sound quality and price.

Only two digital inputs,can't switch digital inputs via remote,grey lettering is hard to see on the front panel, does not specify crossover freq for small sat spkrs.

This reciever really shocked me.The Sherwood line has never moved me in the looks dept.,so I had not auditioned any.I have always wanted my equipment to look as well as they perfomed.(I have been looking for love in all the wrong places:)This reciever is the real deal! My previous Home theater setup was a high-end prologic thx system so, I think I know a little about good sound. The only way this Sherwood could be better...it would have to be "free". This not being in the newcastle line I only expected this unit to be average, I was wrong. The 65 watts per channel in surround mode is more than adequate in my 15x10.5 room. The 4 ohm thx M&K750's sound full of punch even though Sherwood recommends 8ohms.The Fosgate 180 Dipoles also continues to strut their stuff. The Sherwood only costed $177.00 from ubid new(my speakers obviously don't know that!).This baby has 6ch inputs,dd/dts,pre-amps,dnr,cinema eq,3 dsp modes,am/fm. I have tried the usual suspects,Godzilla,Fifth element,Tommorow Never Dies,T2,A bugs life and more.These were all dd dvds. For DTS I used Jurrasic Park,Con Air,Dantes Peak,Pulp Fiction and Aliens Ressurection. All of these were Laserdisc. I have no complaints with the performance of this unit.With the Sony and Teac there was always something that just did not seem right, not with this one.When I fisrt got it, I had been with pro-logic for so long that , I did not take the time to even set my speakers with my sound meter. I was impressed then. Now that I have taken the time to properly set them it is true bliss. Bottom line, if you can buy it...do it, even if you have a really large room,use it as a processor with a bigger amp(but I dont think you will need one for most applications).

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Good value

I just wanted to add a positive review as a first entry. I am not sure what the reviewer below is expecting for the price. Clearly he has a lot of knowledge of the workings in a reciever. But with that knowledge, I would expect he would be buying higher end gear. This is a great unit and clearly worth more than people are paying for it. I have not had any of the conditions he mentions, nor has any of the other reveiwers. Mine is clear and the volume stable.

It is not a Denon or Nakamichi, but hey, I am not paying $1,500+.

Great sounding inexpensive DD, DTS

better with moderate to high efficiency speakers

This is a follow up to my 3/14/00 review of the Sherwood RVD 6095. I tried it in another system (Mirage 595 Bipolar towers and Mirage BPS 150 sub) and found it no longer bass shy at all. The PSB Stratus Minis were 4 Ohm and not very efficient an presented too difficult a load for this receiver to produce much bass with them. Probably any other reasonably efficient speakers would sound fine driven by the 6095. It still is a pleasure to listen to and for $175 that I paid at uBID it is even better. By the way I find that my Kenwood VR 307 DD does a great job with the PSB's.

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my first av amp, i think that sherwood is one of the best for it price.it enough very well moviesound, music is then other thing.very good.

DD & DTS decoding
cost

not many surround settings
only 1 coaxial/optical input

I got this off ebay for about $100 so I thought it was a great value. I wanted a new system to compliment a spiffy new dvd player I bought and this one was fine. Didn't feeling like spending too much, and this was the one that had some good reviews and also have both DD & DTS built in. I have a 5.1 speaker system hooked up to it and it sounds pretty good.

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price,pre outs&DTS

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This is my first DD/DTS reciver and it is AWSOME.
Having a longing for DD&DTS for over a year,only geting to
expirence it at a friends house.I now can revel in full digital surround!This reciver compares with the Yamaha HTR-5150 which my buddy owns.He is overcome that i paid only $175.00 for my Sherwood while he paid almost $500.00 for
his yamaha!BUY A SHERWOOD RVD-6095!!!!!!!!!!!

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DTS, Digital/Optical In, Price

None for the price!

I wanted to get my feet wet in the home theater arena but didn't want spend a bunch of money. The one feature I knew I wanted was DTS, Digital Theater Sound. I soon realized that if I wanted a really good reciever I would have to sell my truck or skip a rent payment, niether are very good options. Time to make some compromises.

After much thought I ended up with the Sherwood 6095r. What a nice unit! The construction is great, the sound is really good and it has plenty of power. The Dolby Digital sounds wonderful, My first DTS movie is in the mail, I can't wait to get it.

I picked this unit up from Ubid for $180 expecting to replace it in a year or so for something more substantial. Maybe I was a bit hasty in my decision, I'll be keeping this unit for quite a while.

All in all, no compromises here.

under 200 anywhere
DD decoder

digital noise mixes with analog circuit
improperly "calibrated" volume control
QC

These receivers are now flooding the ubid and ebay market
in response to the need for playing DD DVD's in 5.1 mode,
and go for about $180 +-$20. The "MSRP" is stated to be
$599 in the corresponding ads; I seriously doubt that anyone
outside of a mental hospital has actually paid that.

The appeal of the unit is in the low cost dolby digital
decoder and the 5.1 speaker outputs. (It also can decode
DTS, but this is not as important as 99% of today's DVDs
use dolby digital for the surround encoding.) Every
receiver/decoder out there uses decoder chips from one of
a few manufacturers; the chip is digital_in/digital_out,
so it is more like a computer motherboard than an analog
instrumentation. The only hard part is the clock recovery
from the digital_in from the DVD, and I think there is a
single chip for that too. The DACs (digital to analog
converters) are single chip, so this whole front end is
digital cookbook. Add some analog multiplexers, a tuner
(if desired), a "pre-amp" (ie. a voltage-controlled
low level 6 channel amplifier) and whatever wattage amp,
put it a box with a power supply, and a microprocessor
controlled remote interface, and you have an AV receiver.

My point is that there is a digital part that is easy
(easy to manufacture, no noise, 1/0 binary signal) and
an analog port that is hard (requiring precision components,
impedance and matching considerations, power and noise, etc). Throw away the compromised ampilfier and for $170
you have a DD/DTS decoder/preamp.

The problem is that the preamp in my unit has an unstable
gain, so that while the sound is OK, the volume will waver
from my setting, about the difference as when a TV commercial comes on, both loud and soft, randomly about
every 5 seconds. It is not supposed to do that; I tried
suppressing tone control, "concert hall mode", various
sources (tuner,aux). It all exhibits this fluctuating
volume problem.

Another problem is with the big source selection button
on the front. Sometimes switching from one source to another
(eg. CD -> AUX -> DVD) resulted in a big PrroOPPPPP. My
separate power amp amplified this signal perfectly, damaging
a dynaudio D260 tweeter. I don't know if this was from
switching in and out a mechanical relay or just digital
switching noise coupled into the analog preamp.

The volume control does have digital switching noise. At
each of the 0-70 (70?) volume settings, a faint "click"
comes through the speakers at each transition. Also, the
potentiometer does not come close to approaching a
logarithmic shape; 0-60 has no sound at all. Only the
last 15% affect the sound, either preamp or amp.

Would I buy this receiver again? If I had a room full of
these and select on that has a stable preamp and minimal
switching noise, yes. (In other words, if I had a satisfaction/return policy from a dealer/CC/BB). But over
the net you get one shot and I missed here.

is this unit has my
preampOK/no_switching_noise unit
Value rating 5 1
Overall rating 4 (amp is worthless) 1


PS. the tuner was so-so, unable to pick up medium AM (I
like talk radio) even with the current loop antenna; same
with FM. I am not too finicky about remotes but this one
has 1/2 of the buttons dedicated to a sherwood tape deck
(about .000000001% of the world).