Sherwood RD7502 100 Watt 7.1-Channel Audio Video Receiver with HDMI (Black) Review

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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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Sherwood RD-8601 6.1-Channel Home Theater Receiver with Dolby Digital and DTS Decoding Review

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(More customer reviews)I just set this unit up there are a few things that are different than the description, one being that there are 2 optical digital inputs and 1 Coaxial digital input and there is 1 digital optical output and 1 Coaxial digital output. That's fine with me as I would rather have more digital optical inputs if you actually could read the back of the unit in the picture you would see that I am correct. Setting the surround sound feature with the mic is awesome, I love this gadget. The only real issue that I have is that the unit I received does not have the Sherwood name anywhere on the product/ box or manual what it does say is QG-500AVR SLS I did find that the QG stood for quick gold but not sure about the rest as of yet I am still researching it. The remote was made for someone who works for Nasa but I was able to figure out the things that I needed to use, I still have a ton to learn about the remote. I did hook up the unit and it was very easy and has great sound, but I only use the optical inputs so I don't know the sound of the rest of the inputs. I only have 5 speakers and one sub set up so I can only use the 5.1 speakers but I have another speaker on the way so that I can hook it up to use the 6.1, when I do I will update my review again.
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Here is the responce that I got from the company on the Name not being Sherwood:
Thank you for your Amazon order.
This SLS branded receiver is a Sherwood RD-8601 receiver, it is rebranded with an SLS name. It is exactly the same as Sherwood RD-8601 except for the logo.
SLS is a high end audio company who contracted Sherwood to build these receivers for them to sell as a home theater package. You can see this home theater package here : [...] LineHomeTheater
We have no control over the pic on Amazon, it is just a listing, our listing does state that this is a rebranded receiver. We have sold hundreds and all our customers are very happy with the quality, especially seeing the low price they paid.
Let us know if you need additional assistance, we will be happy to help.
Best regards,
The Av Express Sales Team
[...]
I am still very happy with this product it has great sound and does a great job with Blueray and digital TV.

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Sherwood RX5502 100 Watt RMS Dual-Zone Stereo Receiver (Black) Review

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(More customer reviews)I purchased this receiver because I could hook up four pairs of speakers to it; my house is wired in four different areas outdoors to this unit, which is inside, and it works great. The remote control allows you to choose which speakers are turned on. I use it with an Apple Airport Express to wirelessly stream music to it from iTunes on my Mac, which works great for listening to internet radio or your stored music via iTunes as well. Plenty of power to get full rich sound everywhere. None of the big box stores had anything like this. Recommended, and a good value too.

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