Price Paid:  $140.00 from Through friend

Summary:
Ok, at first I was extremely happy with the unit pumping out 60w of clear sound to my 55 hitachi stand alone speakers... now all of a sudden im getting "overload" messages and the receiver keeps powering off, i decided to test something out so i put a house fan beside the unit and now it runs fine, technics in future should put PCB mount fans in the back of their receivers for the long hall of audio users.

Strengths:
Clear sound, awesome bass response, clear clean look, agjustable center/rear channel.

Weaknesses:
not digital, overload when hot.

Price Paid:  $120.00 from Cash Converters

Summary:
Bought this amp about a mounth ago to use with my computer, and is is a lot better than first thought. I'm currently running a pair of Warfedale Modus cubes passive sub and it seems to crank out the bass with power to spare. Dose what I want it to do even though the power specs seem to be not that high. Overall highly recommend it for a home cimima starter amp.

Similar Products Used:
Sony, Pioneer

Summary:
Serving as my introduction to audio of any sort, I am most pleased with it. Since then, having used both Sony and Kenwood equipment, I am very happy with my purchase.

It ran nicely with 8ohm speakers (technics) and 6ohm speakers (sony) both on the mains. This leads me to conclude it does not appear to have problems with less than 8ohms on either channel.

Surround is a nice feature, however I find the surrounds to be very under-powered. Rear sound is washy, indistinct, and more of a distraction (this when watching a movie). It may well have been my surround speakers fault on quality, but the amp certainly under-powers them.

You can adjust the center and surrounds by a margin of +/- 12dB.

A good buy for its price, with a full featured remote catering for channel test, adjust channel volumes, CD controls, tuning, etc.

I never listen to radio, so I cannot comment on such features.

The amp must be quite robust as it has been dropped, and the only signs are a dent on the lowwer-left front corner of the amp, and a volume control which scratches (may be dust related).

If you are interested in not too loud sound, and experimenting with a 3-stereo mode, this amp is for you. I would not recommend buying it for its Pro Logic surround sound capabilities. You probably wont end up using this feature.

Strengths:
Very nice look, and good display. Supports a host of different modes considering its cheap price - stereo, 3 stereo, Pro Logic surround. Has phantom surround mode.

Weaknesses:
Only 60watts/chann (lowwers to 40watt for mains in surround mode). Sounds very strained when turned up in surround mode, and bass becomes a rumbling drone more than anything.

Similar Products Used:
Sony, Kenwood

Summary:
This product has seemed to get a bad rap, so I'm going to change that. This is an excellent receiver for the money. Need to use good speakers, but that really goes with any receiver. I use Bose speakers and this thing rocks. My friends can't believe it only runs 60 watts per channel. I even hooked up a un-powered sub and it now really rocks. Will be buying a power amplifier for my system but my friends thinks I'm crazy. They say it sounds awesome and is loud enough already. My one friend bought a $600 Yamaha receiver and wish he bought the Technics EX-300. My system sounds way better than his and I paid 1/5 what he did.

Strengths:
Very loud without distortion for 60 watts a channel. Withstands high heat without sound quality loss. Consistent.

Weaknesses:
Would be nice to have 100 watts a channel but still sounds great with only 60.

Summary:
When this amp is used with a pair of decent loudspeakers on the front channel it can sound VERY NICE and with a decent sub its even better, i used TDL RTL3 and it sounds excellent !!! don't use home made speakers and door bell cable on this one go and get some OFC cable

Strengths:
very nice sound when used with decent speakers

Weaknesses:
none that are bad really

Similar Products Used:
none