Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

My company and my late boss's company has sold Harman Kardon for decades, as they were a neutral sounding receiver that offered full bandwidth / full frequency range outputs in even their more affordable units. Many companies would not do this, and therefore had a truncated frequency range. Unfortunately, since the passing of Sidney Harmon, the once decent company is no longer Harman Kardon. I have talked to people in the company that have told me that the marketing department now runs it's products and the days of ultra high bandwidth receivers with decent power supplies is now over. They have replaced their former stout power supplies with digital ones containing toy-like, tiny, laughable Crown transformers. Crown was never a good company, and Harman Internation acquired them apparently as a cheaper way to build their units and make more money at the cost of quality. These cheap, lousy power supplies that cause the unit to be half it's former weight, and are much smaller make the units sound digital, tinny, thin, have a very diminished shallow bottom end, and do not sound like Harman Kardon of days past. You have to really work to get any semblance of the abundant, deep bass that you previously were able to get. Harman Kardon has also poisoned their line of Mark Levinson with these same power supplies and has received lousy reviews on those new pieces as well. Harman Kardon has also taken out their flag ship two channel integrated amplifier (HK 990) and replaced it with this lousy digital power supply garbage. In a nut shell, the marketing executives at Harman Kardon have chosen light weight, in house gosh awful power supplies to increase profits over the legacy of a good sounding audio product and has banked on their customers not knowing the difference. I don't know about you, but I know the smell of dog poop when I smell it. And this is dog poop. Sidney Harman is most likely rolling in his grave after how much work he put into this venerable company all his life. My only hope is that enough people give them bad enough reviews and don't buy their product that they are forced to re-evaluate like they previously had to do with their failed digital receivers over 10 yrs ago and go back to making a decent product. Those were so bad that Fry's couldn't hardly give them away. The AVR 3700 is even more of a disgrace than most of their receivers, as it's supposed to the flagship. This is basically $1000 pile of refuse that is being passed off as the best Harman Kardon has to offer. When you look inside, you will find 2 VERY SMALL crown transformers, which give the body very little shallow bass compared to units of yesteryear and give the unit a digital thin sound that is not like what Harman Kardon used to be. It's a lousy offering by a cynical company that thinks it can pass dog food onto the consumers and they will not know the difference. After being long time customers and proponents of HK, we no longer are and cannot recommend any of their receivers. We hope that we can find a company that values its customers and doesn't abuse them like Harman Kardon now does with poor products and awful customer service. The wait time is ridiculous. And you have to really work to talk to someone who isn't an East Indian and understands nothing. DO NOT BUY THIS UNIT!