Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

It was time to replace my Yamaha receiver from 30 years ago. I looked for a reasonably priced receiver with a phono input since they seem harder and harder to find. I settled on this Sony and so far have been pretty happy with it. Set up was pretty simple. Phono jack with grounding wire was obvious to plug in and the additional RCA inputs lets you customize where to plug things in. The remote control lets you rename the inputs to label what goes in where. Speaker wires fit easily into the clamps on the back. Sound quality is very good. The phono doesn't have any buzz once the grounding wire is tightened well. Everything sounds well balanced through my bookshelf Polk speakers. A nice feature that my old receiver didn't have is Bluetooth which I easily paired with my laptop and plays my iTunes library without any breakup. FM tuner works well as well. If I have any cons about it, there's a few. You can only pair Bluetooth to one device at a time like your computer or your iPhone, not both. Tuner has FM only, no AM but those stations are available online or my home clock / radio, not a big deal to me.. You can access three presets on the remote for the radio. You can have up to 30 but then you need to hit the forward button on the remote or scroll with the on board knob. Also the tuner scans very slowly to find stations. But if it's not that important to you, this makes for a very solid home receiver and very reasonably priced.