Still, that's more than enough power to damage your hearing with all but the most inefficient speakers.

This was the first receiver i bought and i like that it has enough power on each channel to use fairly good size speakers and also has 5.2 support

The sound quality is excellent and provides enough power for my needs

I am absolutely blown away by the massive distortion-free power and high quality sound this unit drives into my speakers.

Plenty enough power for most speakers, especially in stereo mode.

Right now I am using just one sub till I find a good price on another

Very pleased with this receiver - especially for the incredible price

So in summary, it may have a few little annoyances, but all in all the STRDH550 is a great receiver at a nice price.

I found a work around for my particular setup, as I too was rather frustrated after purchasing this product

OTHER than that, this is a fantastic sounding receiver at a great price.

(IMO, unit sounds just fine with no EQ at all.)I got mine on sale for $199.00 a few months ago, but still think its $248.00 price (as I write this) is a good value.

Great value for the price point, solved a lot of my multi hdmi cable issues

I see the price went up since I bought it but still a good value

Best sound, best power and best of all ...best price and value in class for 5.1 AV Home Theatre Receiver on the market

And the sound is quite acceptable- excellent value for the money.

I purchased the receiver from Best Buy and started having problems almost immediately with HDMI connections not working properly.

For the money I paid, it's doing exactly what I want it to do; it's a good buy in my opinion.

At $148 it is a silly good buy!

Spent a few hours with this receiver from Best Buy and then an hour on the phone with Sony

great buy for good price,has a lot of cool features, my family like it a lot.

, this is a nice cheap system.

It may not have all the "bells-and-whistles" that other receivers might have, but it's just what I need to have a great sounding system.

I connected them, performed Auto Cal, and the system sounded great

This system is completely incompatible with a 4k display

I like to have a nice audio system to go with my A/V set up and this was the right one for me

Plenty of versatile functionality, clear sound and easy setup.

It makes the setup and use of what is a very good receiver/amp a hassle

Setup was pretty easy and the receiver appeared to work pretty well

Figuring out the setup was hard but all that work on it's programming was well worth the time and frustration

i wish they had told me in the online manual on the fist setup page that you can use the units lcd screen for adjusting settings, instead of always referring to the hdmi on screen menu

I was looking for great sound quality and this unit delivers

The sound quality is excellent and provides enough power for my needs

It has good quality sound, was easy to set up using their automatic sound balancing

Great quality sound for my home theatre to replace an old receiver.

Sony even realized that having the display on produces slight electrical interference, degrading sound quality, so you can shut that off!!!

The Self calibration was a nice feature and the multiple HDMI inputs allows for trouble free connection to my TV

Not only does the option not exist to disable this ""feature"", but an abundance of Sony support forum requests, from multiple users, for a firmware update or any assistance were met with silence from Sony

A little disappointed that there wasn't a composite input option, but again, the added features practically double the price.

The speaker calibration setup is a nice feature, not super necessary though

This is another great feature that has a caveat in practice.

I found a work around for my particular setup, as I too was rather frustrated after purchasing this product

I had no display when attempting to use Satellite or Blu ray player, Sony concluded it was a defective unit!

Would strongly recommend this unit for price and performance.

FIRST - others have complained of bad units or other technical issues and i have had NONE of that... so far it works as it is supposed to

Very nice unit easy hookup really enjoy surround sound listening to music is great

It seems that the Sony receiver and the New Samsung TV that I have do not work together.

UPDATE 9-17The wife complained of recent poor TV sound.

and I must say.....this receiver has made a HUGE difference in the sound output of my Sharp Aquos TV.

Excellent for the price use only for surround sound with my Sony TV

Do not buy this product or research to see if it works with your model TV before you do.

I put 2 and 2 together and thought Amazon and Sony doesn’t allow unreliable products

This is and was a broke poor product before it left manufacturing

This is not a good product and I completely regret buying it

I would not buy this product again nor recommend it to anyone else.

great product, kind of a pain to print the instructions

Changing the volume while my laptop or computer is displaying through the receiver blanks the screen, turns it to 480p to display the obnoxious volume icon and the arbitrary volume number, then cuts all audio and video before restoring the screen and audio to their normal settings

On the receiver, if you go to options > settings > then select and turn on "control from HDMI."Depending on the remote you are using, configure the remote to issue volume up commands to the TV

Volume could be greater, but on the whole I can still crank this up and fill the living room with sound a plenty

While it does pass 4k through the HDMI in and out ports, whenever the on screen display (OSD) is accessed, (which includes every time the volume is changed) the display reverts to 480p, causing the screen to black out temporarily

Not as load as my Yamaha it replaced, The volume at 75 (highest) could be a little louder

My old Onkyo lost two channels and the HDMI pass through was starting to go.

one s and my Sharp 4K tv

The biggest PITA issue this has outside of some issues with true 4K pass-through mentioned in other reviews is that when you power up and select the input you want to hear it will for some unknown reason revert to the optical audio cable if that is hooked up and you will have to manually switch it back when you loose sound after the first 30 seconds of viewing

Comments and answers stated that this is 4K compliant and supported HDCP 2.2.It [u]DOES

this Sony has been reliable and took care of what the more expensive former Onkyo 7.1 channel had with more issues involving HDMI cabling between components

The sound is very good and, interestingly, my TV picture was way better with this receiver than it had been with my now-dead Pioneer receiver

This Sony receiver had virtually the same power and was over $100 less expensive then the Pioneer or the Yamaha in the same category.

Any die-hard Pioneer AV receiver fans can comfortably transition over to this model

It was easy to connect, although I missed having an av output, like my Pioneer had

I found a work around for my particular setup, as I too was rather frustrated after purchasing this product

Other than quickly setting up surround, expect to spend some time fumbling around trying to figure out what is where

the Sub-woofer stopped working having a hard time with vendor responding

It wasted my time setting it up, debugging it and then returning it.

It absolutely cranks big time (again after I changed the auto volume setting) and before this I always felt I needed different speakers and have even tried a few sets of Klipsch speakers (center channel and mains) and it never improved my sound all that much

don’t waste your time or money

Now without knowing that there needs to be hdcp 2.2 and all of that, you can see how this is going to trick some buyers

The only minor downside is the noise it makes turning on

If I have any complaints about it, its the loud electronic "thunk" noise when you turn it on and off but its nothing crazy.

In a call to Sony customer support, I was told that the humming was normal and could be expected, but they could not explain to me why Sony would engineer a product to make an irritating background noise when not in use.

I found a work around for my particular setup, as I too was rather frustrated after purchasing this product

Your display screen throws another error message at me with an annoying error noise