POWER without distortion

No digital plugs

I picked this up on a 1/2 price Saturday on an outing with the wife. It came with 2 pioneer sp340a speakers. My Sony reciever with fancy schmancy HDMI jacks blew a fuse or burnt out a few weeks earlier. I have used it daily as a replacement "HEAD" and it works great with my Kenwood sub. I had to "Bridge" my surround sound wiring to make all my speakers work but The Unit performs without failure for well over the past year. The Bass is excellent.

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Gets very loud and very clear. Many inputs. Simple and understandable. Able to push 4 drivers.

basic features and basic functions, nothing extremely exciting. Electrical noise polution can create a buzz or hum so keep it isolated.

Honestly, how can anyone speak of the "quality" of the sound and include only the receiver's ability? The reciever puts out plenty of power, much more than I'll use. 100 watts per channel is more than enough to rock my BOSE 201 series IV speakers. the remaining channels definitely put some thump into my mtx thunder 7500 12"s. If you want good bass response.. use subwoofers.. that's my conclusion anyway. the superbass is usually always on as it brings the entire range of sound to a warmer tone in general. theres plenty of ways to hook your components up. I've experienced a few problems with electrical noise from large power supplies, but if you isolate the unit a few feet from computers and such, the sound is amazingly clear. no hum or buzzing as long as it's far enough away or your components are shielded. the remote is a remote, that's it. you can control your other components with it and adjust the volume and superbass. nothing more. Obviously there are much better units out there and obviously there are worse, that will be the case with basically anything on the planet you wish to purchase. For me, for free, with BOSE speakers, this unit completely rocks.

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many many recievers.. many many speakers..

I don't know, it is cheap?

Poor quality sound

My uncle owns this black screech box. Sure, its amber display looks pleasing, but it sure sounds the opposite as any sensible person can attest. Pay no attention to the guy who knocked 1970s stereo. I own a 1978 vintage SX-780 with a THD of 0.05%, less than half what this piece supposedly rates at. The facts REALLY are that humans cannot perceive sonic distortion below .3%, and companies exaggerate power numbers these days. Back when 2-channel was king, and surround sound a ridiculous dream, Pioneer used high quality potentiometers, capacitors, power supplies, transistors, etc. Now that the average consumer couldn't give two shi+s, BestBuy can sell 100 watts (for 1 microsecond with .9% THD) per channel that "sound great." Yeah, right, all out of a 15-lb. chassis. Let's be serious people. They just don't make them like they used to (a shame).

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In my opinion, it's simplicity, and power. Great for a quadraphonic hook-up.

It needs a little in the pulling-in of stations department.

I have owned this product for 5 years & I think it works great. It has plenty of power. I am able to push my fifteen's with no problem. I am not sure what the prior gentlemen was talking about on the weak bass. I get my walls shaking just fine. There is a misconception about most 70's receivers and them having more power. Most of them had less power than todays and what you call bass is actually distortion. The fact is that THD did not drop drastically until the early eighties.

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Looks nice. Decent FM tuning. It won't bother your neighbors.

No bass at all. I bought this after my old Pioneer SX-1010 from the 70's died. I saw the Pioneer name, saw 100 watts per channel, and the price was good (or so I thought at the time), so I bought. I picked it up ... "hey look! I can lift it with one hand!" ... and thought "Wow, amazing how far they've come ... the old one weighed a ton". Got it home, hooked it up, and soon realized that besides being light and cheap, it sounded awful. First test was Beethoven's 9th. About 9 minutes into the 4th movement there's a pause followed by a section that starts with deep bass drums. I cranked it up. I heard nothing. Literally nothing - it completely filtered out the deep bass that used to vibrate the whole room. Oh well. Finally got an old Pioneer SX-1250 off eBay, and now I can hear my music again. Now I swear by vintage Pioneer. Found a place that will repair my SX-1010 too - even dead, I held onto it.

100 watts per channel, but no bass whatsoever.

I like this amp. Cheap, good power, nice style.

Not too heavy to lift

I would rather have paid nothing or had the sense to check that my new amp did NOT have phono inputs

I am perfectly happy with this product which I bought from an estate sale solely for the purpose of running my turntable, Dual 1219, after I bought a new receiver which did not have phono inputs. I hope that this review is helpful. You can never be too careful.

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Everything except what i said below.

Gets very warm fast.

All of you that are say that the receiver doesnt produce good lows and mid and highs, its not the receiver, yours your cheap speakers, why do you put what kind of speakers you own in your review of the receiver. It is a great receiver altho i dont own it any more it was good while i had it. I know have a Denon Dra-685. The Pioneer was hooked up to my DCM TimeFrames tf600''s. And wired through a DCM powered sub with dual woofers. And it sounded great for the price.

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Cheap, loud

Very poor sound, harsh highs, weak bass

I used to own this in high school before upgrading to the Yamaha receiver and then the Rotel amp. I'd recommend this amp to a high school, rap music listening kid who wants it loud and cheap on the wallet. If you listen to real music and care at all about sound quality, forget it. With no tone adjustment this thing has virtually no bass, and the highs and mids hurt the ears, they really suck. Turn on the super bass and you get even louder highs and some loud, boomy bass. This warms up the sound but you lose a lot of midrange and virtually all detail. My friend lives in a dorm and uses this hooked up to four speakers, it puts out a lot of bass and volume for parties, and sounds good if you are drunk and in a roomful of people listening to crap, modern music, but that is it. It gets a decent value rating for being about the cheapest thing on the market, but if you really like music and want even a slight resemblance of natural sound, don't even think about it. The Yamaha I had was warmer than the Pioneer and more detailed, but I was still dissapointed in the bass. The 100 Watt Rotel, for $800, was worth every penny as it plays as loud and louder than the Pioneer with beatiful, clean sound, solid, tight bass and good highs and mids that don't leave your ears ringing.

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Consistency of black color. Remote control unit was nice.

Tinny colored output. I remember owning several pieces of
Pioneer equipment throughout the 70s & 80s. That equipment
was very difficult to surpass in performance. This however
is an absolute piece of dime store junk. When I first wired
it up, in 10 minutes I knew I hade made an error. I bought
on the strength on past Pioneer products, and the sound was
unlistenable. NO bass output- and with loudness contour in
effect, the boominess was intolerable. I possess an older
SA-6500 integraterd amp rated @ 30 watts RMS which has 50
times more natural sound and 10 times the oomph.. Save your
money, this is pure junk. I gave it to my daughter (she did
not know better) and it started popping fuses. On a whim-
I threw it in the trash can and purchased her a real amp.

SAVE YOUR MONEY!!!!

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