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(More customer reviews)Currently using a Denon AVR 2807 in my living room, and a Yamaha HTR 5950 upstairs in my bedroom on the PC. Bought this Sherwood receiver for my parents to go with their new TV as a present on a tight budget. Best Buy carries their stuff - this is how I found out about Sherwood. Of course they stick their own "insignia" badges on the 5.1 units, not sure if they now carry the 7.1s or not. Anyway it's a decent company and a decent product. There is a little bit of hiss when there is no signal which is kind of weird, but everything is fine when you're actually using an input. The remote is a cheap piece of crap. The menu system is alright. Options are good, like the sub cut-off points and all that. Power seems low for what they claim but I can't compare since I also bought new bookshelves to use with this thing. It goes loud enough for a typical living room with normal efficiency speakers. The innards seem solid, the thing is quite heavy - on par with my 35lb denon. A good bunch of electronics with corners cut as far as controls and remote goes. If you're going to use a nice universal that's a moot point anyway. Note: HDMI is for video ONLY, you still need to connect the DVR and blueray/etc with the optical cables. Kind of a turn off, but not a deal breaker really. Optical cables are skinny and you only need one per device. So in this case one was DVR the other BluRay - two optical cables and two HDMI cords. Totally irrelevant if you're hiding your cables in the wall or elsehow.
So I give this thing an honest C+/B- as a whole, more like a B+ assuming you dno't need the remote or care about audio through HDMI.
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