Audioman00

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Value Rating
 5 of 5

Used product for
1 to 3 months

Price Paid:  $70.00 from Pawn Shop

Summary:
Very robust. clean and powerfull sounding receiver contrary to the previous Kenwoods I have owned, full of features, metal front panel, pre-outs for all channels, 5.1 DD surround modes, DSP Logik, amongst others, but overall the sound is incredible with my AR's.

Strengths:
Power, Loudness control is just right, Built like a tank, s-vid switching, pre-outs for all channels, dot matrix display, etc...

Weaknesses:
Without remote you have a 2 channel amp. period. can't do anything without remote but listen to cds and tapes.

Similar Products Used:
Kenwood Denon Yamaha HK Onkyo Proton JVC AKAI

Price Paid:  $1100.00

Summary:
This unit has great sound quality and works great with laserdisc. You must connect it to a TV to use the on screed display to program it.

Strengths:
Good power, great sound, good durability

Weaknesses:
LOUSY remote, and can't find a universal to match this receiver. Has bad digital bitstream lock problems with many DVD players. Remember, this unit came out before DVD. Works fine with my Toshiba SD-2107, but not Dad's Panasonic DVD-A110

Price Paid:  $1000.00 from Crutchfield

Summary:
*Bad Remote
*Doesn't recognize DD signal. (switching in and out will fix problem)
*After four years of fairly frequent use, it caught on fire but thermal protection cut off power. No longer working.

Strengths:
Good Power. DD sounds great.

Weaknesses:
Stereo mode is weak. Gets Hot.

Similar Products Used:
n/a

Summary:
This is a pretty good Dolby Digital receiver. I like the Dolby Digital sound in laserdiscs and in DVD's. Music sounds pretty good on Cd's and the radio. The antennae is not that good and the remote pretty much sucks.

Strengths:
Rf input and digital input for Dolby Digital.

Weaknesses:
No DTS. Not equal power to all speakers. 100 x 3 & 70 x 2.
You have to get a specific kind of DVD player otherwise will skip the audio when playing. I own a Sony player and it works great. Stay away from Toshiba with this receiver though.

Summary:
I bought this two years ago and it was the cheapest
reciever with dolby digital at the time. They are
right about the remote, you have to point it right at
the reciever to get it to do anything. I never liked
the on screen menu it was to much trouble.The DSP did
suck it is worthless. I never had any of the sound problems
the other people talked about.Kenwood replaced it after
two years with the 2090 so I got a hell of a deal.It
wasnt a bad sounding unit it just didnt have all the features
I wanted.There are all kinds of new recievers that are cheaper
and have more features. If you have this unit dont feel
bad its not the worst.

Strengths:
cheap price

Weaknesses:
old,no new features