Panasonic SA-HE75 5.1 Channels Receiver
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- Surround Sound: Dolby Digital® DTS® Dolby Pro Logic II
- THX Certification: No
- Number of Channels: 5.1 Channels
- Type: Receiver
- Surround Mode Power: 100 Watt @ 6 ohm, 40 Hz - 20 kHz, THD: 0.9%
- Stereo Mode Power: 100 Watt @ 6 ohm, 40 Hz - 20 kHz, THD: 0.9%
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Great Deal!
Pros
Easy set up. Great Sound. Nice looking.
Cons
Manual could be better.
Recommended it?
Yes
The Bottom Line:
Unless you are a sound snob this unit will work for almost anyone.
This was the best $150 I could spend for a receiver. The sound is great, it is easy to set up and control, and the it looks beautiful. Just to qualify myself, I am not an avid audiophile, but someone who likes good sound and doesn't want to spend too much time/effort/money in achieving it.
There are boxed home theater units I looked at, but the speakers are almost always terrible and the amplifier comes from the subwoofer over half the time. Which to me is a bad idea; if you upgrade the speakers you have to keep the cheap subwoofer in order to power them. Plus, most of these units are complicated to operate because they are DVD players (which I didn't need)and receivers.
I originally was going to buy a loss-leader Onkyo 5.1 receiver for $99 at Fry's, but when I looked at it there were some key features missing. One, it was only 65 watts per channel. Two, no front rca inputs. Three, it was complicated to operate. After finding this Panasonic unit, (I bought it in silver)I noticed that adjusting the sound effects was very easy and intuitive. There is a button on the front and on the remote that adjusts the subwoofer output independently, there are 6 sound effects it can produce (as opposed to the low-end Sony, JVC, and Onkyo units which only have 2-4 effects) and the effects from the Panasonic sound very nice. Not too much echo in the simulated surround sound, and it has a 'party' sound feature where it plays music through all 6 speakers, as opposed to powering only the two speakers and the subwoofer. It literally took me 15 minutes to set up. There are a lot more expensive units out there that do a lot more stuff but for me they all boiled down to gadgetry that did not translate to every day use of a receiver.
There are boxed home theater units I looked at, but the speakers are almost always terrible and the amplifier comes from the subwoofer over half the time. Which to me is a bad idea; if you upgrade the speakers you have to keep the cheap subwoofer in order to power them. Plus, most of these units are complicated to operate because they are DVD players (which I didn't need)and receivers.
I originally was going to buy a loss-leader Onkyo 5.1 receiver for $99 at Fry's, but when I looked at it there were some key features missing. One, it was only 65 watts per channel. Two, no front rca inputs. Three, it was complicated to operate. After finding this Panasonic unit, (I bought it in silver)I noticed that adjusting the sound effects was very easy and intuitive. There is a button on the front and on the remote that adjusts the subwoofer output independently, there are 6 sound effects it can produce (as opposed to the low-end Sony, JVC, and Onkyo units which only have 2-4 effects) and the effects from the Panasonic sound very nice. Not too much echo in the simulated surround sound, and it has a 'party' sound feature where it plays music through all 6 speakers, as opposed to powering only the two speakers and the subwoofer. It literally took me 15 minutes to set up. There are a lot more expensive units out there that do a lot more stuff but for me they all boiled down to gadgetry that did not translate to every day use of a receiver.
