Price Paid:  $100.00 from Great Deals

Summary:
This is an outstanding receiver. It complete with an of today Highest end models. It even has features most of them do not. Excellent receiver if you can find one.

Strengths:
Sound quality, power, and good looks

Weaknesses:
Lacks video enhancer with split screen

Similar Products Used:
None, this is one of a kind

Price Paid:  $850.00 from online

Summary:
two words (STAY AWAY)keep ypur money i was and idiot to buy this unit and can't get my money back..

Strengths:
it lack power

Weaknesses:
hard to understand

Similar Products Used:
sony

Summary:
I have been using this little reciever for my secondary system for about 8 years. I bought the unit because I knew that AC-3 (later to be known as Dolby Digital) was going to be the format of choice in years to come. This was the ONLY reciever at the time that offered pre-out and main-ins for all of the channels, yes, including spit surround amplifiers. Not only that, but it had the most powerfull surround amps available in a reciever at the time(except of coarse for Pioneers elite series--- which suspiciously looked like the VSX-DIIs with cherry wood veneer end panels) at 50 watts per channel. All five amp sections have an unbelievable rating of .005 THD at the rated output plus it's a non-switching amp (in simpler terms that means it dosn't swtich down it's output specifications when in the surround mode). Iv'e yet to find this low of a THD in Pioneers current offerings. When Dobly Digital did finally arrive I bought a Technics AC-500C Processor (at a very good price), patched it into the pre-out/main-in section and voila I have what I think is an exceptional Dolby Digital system. This unit is extremely versitile and has all the bells & whisles that anyone would ever want with top notch performance.

Strengths:
Extremely Versitile