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Elevate your home audio with the Sony STR-DN1080: a 7.2-channel AV receiver loaded with cutting-edge technologies. Featuring Dolby Atmos technology, the receiver reproduces object-oriented sound in smooth, curving movements for an immersive audio experience Read More
I had this receiver for about 2 months so far. I have Polk audio T400, 300, 100s. I’m using 5.1 for now. It works, it hasn’t died, does a great job with phantom
backs. Sounds pretty good, never got to hear it against another receiver though. The software screen is a tad slow, Bluetooth worked great with my iPhone. You can’t really go wrong I’d you get one that isn’t a lemon. Remember it’s 6ohms so try to pair it with relevant speakers for best results.
What’s Great:
Style and match with UBP X800
Design and execution, menus, controls
Power and setup flexibility
Options - connections, zones, Bluetooth & network
Not So Great:
Info in screens not easy
Need a tv turned on and accepting the HDMI from the receiver... just to operate the receiver in many cases.
Not many actual inputs..... and some are not on remote or conflict with others
conflicts strongly with tv ARC/CEC - worthless and worse.
Sony 1000 series (used to be 900 series) receivers have been so perfect for me and many of my friends for over 20 years... I’ve had 5 and none have failed me - they used to only get better with each new one available - until now.
i do wish I had grabbed one when they were still fully jacked in the back - maybe when they still had a phono input, or still kept some analog jacks (or older digital connects) on different input modes than the HDMI setup. I still appreciate being able to rename inputs, but what I had to do to setup a BD (UBP X800), turntable, tv, dvd/sacd, vhs (just five real things...) was CRAZY!!!
BUT IT SOUNDS REALLY GREAT ONCE DONE!!!!
SETUP!
Round #1
turned on all the options for ARC, CEC, Network and all regular extended wake up modes. Setup for second Zone with amp (variable control)
X800 through the receiver, dvd also with HDMI - and hooked to TV into HDMI 1 (which does 4K)... no sound on BD, no picture and no controls on tv... no ARC - that only works on HDMI 2 on many first/second gen 4K TVs like mine... other troubles too - but really just had to rewire...
Round 2:
move x800 video to HDMI on tv
X800 Sound to BD Input on rcvr
RCVR output HDMI A (arc/CEC) to tv hdmi 2 and juggle all the settings to meet runtime requirements of each piece...
Huge trouble - swapping inputs on excruciating basis - have to have on hdmi 2 to tell what rcvr is doing and have to be on hdmi to see X800 play... pause X800 and play again and input on rcvr moves to tv ((((nnnnooooo Sound.....)))) hot BD - wait to get sound back .... lather , rinse , repeat...
still no turntable pre amp - that comes later...
Round 3:
rewire all - except hdmi
remove second amp (zone 2)
move zone 2 speaker wires to alt/zone2 bonding posts
get HELP GUIDE - because Use Guide is totally too simple
Find out the zone 2 never gets sound from any hdmi input...
Move dvd to coax digital input (only way to send dvd/cd sound to zone 2 over speaker wires unless you stop using bi-amp or atmos or rear surrounds (only that set of posts can support “B” speakers (an alternative to zone 2... and remember that HDMI can’t go to zone 2 speakers (or zone 2 stereo RCA jacks either it seems)
Turn off all of the ARC/CEC/auto sensing, switching and support for remote starts, etc.... just to survive pausing the BD mode and playing again - losing ALL SCREEN MENUS on tv during most modes that have any picture!
BUT IT SOUNDS REALLY GREAT ONCE DONE!!!!
Round 4:
setup tt with phono preamp - and try to find an open input for it to use - and not conflict with other choices, REALLY!!!
All controls lead to confusion———-
all hdmi/digital/analog inputs are on the same (few) buttons/input options... so the conflict and don’t work with things powered up...
finally dedicated each kind to an area - even though it had to be on buttons that are the wrong name - though you can change the name on the rcvr, you can’t on the buttons on remotes
BUT IT SOUNDS REALLY GREAT ONCE DONE!!!!
and So - it now sounds great, and I can’t wait to get a 4K tv with Arc on one of its 4K inputs... and try arc/CEC again
more if it gets better/ or I can handle writing more about this wonderful, magical, mess...