Sony STRDA3300ESB

Pros: Audio quality, inputs available

Cons: Remote is overly complex

Review: My DA333ES drives 5 pairs of speakers (and a sub-woofer) in my home with the volume knob at 1/3! I wanted a great surround receiver for my audio system as I have 2 300 CD changers, DVD, 55 inch TV, Direct (satellite) TV, VCR, and a cassette player. I...

Pros: durable, tons of features, SONY

Cons: no touchscreen LCD remote for thsi model

Review: state of the art home theatre technology meets the legendary sony ES expertise in the unbelievable DA333ES model. This receiver has it all, 24 bit processing, for multichannel digital decoding, (dolby digital and DTS) 32 bit processing for sony's...

Pros: Excellent choice for most users

Cons: A cool, but lame remote

Review: I was excited about replacing my 9-year-old Pioneer VSX-9500S pro-logic receiver with this unit that I had read a lot of good things about. On the positive side, the unit sounds good. I put in an ELP CD and seriously jammed. I'd forgotten how nice...

Pros: Greatest out on the Market

Cons: Overwhelming

Review: I just recently replace my old Sony STR-DE525 reciever with the Sony STR-DA333ES... I have to say Im pretty upset with the performance of it. Although the specs look great, the sound quality, easiness of use, and durablity, sadly was just a tiny bit...

Pros: Awsome Sound, Ample SVideo, Optical connections in the back.

Cons: Bad Remote. Period.

Review: Wow!! What a receiver!! I tried a few receiver within my budget before I got this one. Baby this one kicks butt!! There are few other one much more expensive that sound better, but for me this US$1000 receiver is way better for my pockets. Excellent...

Pros: physically constructed well

Cons: operational design flaws

Review: This is a great amp, as most ES equipment is nice, but I do want to bring up two concerns in Sony's design:

1: The sub-woofer preamp out mutes when the speaker selector is turned off!
None of the other preamp outputs mute, and none of...

Pros: Good solid sounding reciever

Cons: Its the same as last years!!!

Review: The answer is not much. The predessor to this machine is the STRDA30ES. The only change that I can see made to this machine is an external six channel analog input. This is usefull for future format upgrades. When a new format comes out the idea is...