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Sony STR-DG500 6.1 Channel Home Theater Receiver | 
| Brand: Sony
Category: CE
List Price: $250.00
Buy Used: $50.00
You Save: $200.00 (80%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 15970
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 22
Dimensions (in): 20.4 x 15.5 x 10.6
MPN: STR-DG500
Model: STR-DG500
UPC: 027242683129
EAN: 0027242683129
ASIN: B000ETYO7C
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Features 660 Watts of total system power, 110 Watts per channel | | • | Digital Cinema Sound technology makes your movies come alive | | • | Component inputs and output | | • | Digital Cinema Auto Calibration makes it easy to tailor your home theater sound to your listening environment | | • | Measures 17 x 6.3 x 12.5 inches (W x H x D) |
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Amazon.com Product Description
When you're ready to step up to 6.1 channel performance for a truly rich home theater experience, the STR-DG500 Home A/V Receiver is ready to take you there. Designed as Sony's entry level surround sound receiver, performance and simplicity are the key. The receiver sports 660 Watts delivered across six channels for an impressive 110 Watts per channel. When you add Sony's Digital Cinema Auto Calibration setup, you've got a system that is simple to set up, but is completely tuned to your unique home theater layout. 
The STR-DG500 features a wealth of connectivity options, including component video input/output. View larger. | 
An included remote control lets you stay in control from the couch. View larger. | Digital Cinema Sound
Sony's original Digital Cinema Sound technology uses exclusive DSP technology to recreate the precise environment of three Hollywood Dubbing Stages where your movies are created. The result is true theater sound in the home from the source. You also get a huge range of other decoding technologies, including Dolby Digital Decoding, Dolby Pro Logic II, Dolby Pro Logic IIX, Dolby Pro Logic, Dolby Digital EX, dts 96/24, dts NEO:6, and dts-ES. All of these options give you great compatibility with the digital sound encodings in the latest DVDs and other media. Digital Cinema Auto Calibration
Now the optimal speaker for your living room is only a press of button away. Simply place the included microphone in your listening position and allow the strength of Sony's Digital Signal Processing to take over. Speaker placement, distance, and delays are all adjusted automatically to ensure a worry free listening experience. Once you have your system optimized you can select from a variety of sound fields to suit the entertainment you're experiencing. Choose from three sound fields designed to optimize cinema, three for music, 11 for automatic format decoding, and one for two-channel stereo listening. A/V Sync
The STR-DG500's special digital signal processing allows for lip sync delay to adjust to match the refresh rates of today's advanced flat panel televisions. Input/Output Options
With an impressive array of I/O options, the STR-DG500 is sure to fit right into your home theater system. In addition to composite video and analog RCA inputs and outputs galore, you get optical and coaxial digital audio inputs. Multichannel inputs are of course provided, as is a subwoofer output. For complete integration with your HD video system, you get two rear component video inputs and one component video output. Other connections are provided for antennae, speaker terminals, and headphones. Tuning and Extras
What receiver would be complete without an AM/FM tuner? The STR-DG500 provides auto tuning, direct tuning, and station name tuning options, and there's a preset memory for 30 FM and 30 AM stations. And last but not least, the unit ships with a handy remote control. What's in the Box
STR-DG500 receiver, FM wire antenna, AM loop antenna, 2 AA batteries, remote control, and instruction manual.
Product Description
Sony's worldwide reputation for creating unique, attractive, high-quality, advanced technology products rests on a long line of innovations embraced by people from all walks of life. With a diverse product lineup serving a variety of lifestyles and industries, Sony continuously strives to introduce new products and technologies to meet changing market needs.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 19 more reviews...
Great buy January 25, 2008
I bought this receiver because it had a microphone for auto-calibration. The mike has a female tripod screw for mounting on a tripod. I decided to do the calibration with the mike mounted on the top of my head. This method seems to have worked fine.
The other nifty feature is that when you turn on the receiver, it starts with the previous setting. If you turned it off with the video setting (TV), it turns on with the TV. If you turned it off with the FM tuner and turn it on again, you have the FM tuner. Clever.
It has more power than I need.
Considering the price, it is a great value.
Great for the price... sold elsewhere for 3* the price!!! September 28, 2007
I received this unit for Christmas last year and has yet to dissapoint!!! Accepts virtually any audio input, and the only real trouble I have is the FM Tuner is a bit weak even with a powered antenna, but the unit is in a club room and 3' underground. AM reception with the loop antenna in the block window is absolutely superb! Very odd in a receiver of this class. Overall, well worth the purchase... and is hard to go wrong with this choice!
 misrepresented June 13, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
amazon lists the wrong product info for this item. it does not have any hdmi ins or outs hd is done component only. there are 2 500 units so be sure you have the right one.
 Auto-Cal Feature Rocks May 13, 2007
For a unit at this price-point I was not expecting much. I was very wrong. First of all, this tuner has the performance and feature set of devices several times the price. Further, the connections, menus and controls are all very intuitive and well-thought out. And most importantly, the sound is pristine. I've never cranked this unit up all the way because it gets LOUD (without distorting). Overall, everything you could want in an entry-level tuner, PLUS...
The auto-calibration feature is brilliant. Setting up a surround sound system is not easy, and getting it to sound good is part science, part voodoo. My parents have had a high-end surround system for years and my dad still swears that the rear speakers don't work. The STR-DG500 takes care of everything for you. Simply plug the included microphone in, place it where you would normally sit, hit a button on the remote, and walk away. The receiver runs a series of tests, progressively playing pink noise from each speaker and making incremental adjustments to volume and delay. After a few minutes, the surround system is perfectly tuned as if a professional installer with a sound meter had done it. I haven't made an adjustment since, and it sounds fantastic. Brilliant, I say.
You can't go wrong with this receiver.
Greate value for $$, Satisfactory audio performance. May 8, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was shopping for a HD ready receiver with a budget of around $300 and ended up picking this up for fraction of that - $125 from fry's 5/5/07. It replaces my Yamaha 5.1 receiver after almost a year( forgot model - bought 4 years back and gifted away to by brother).
The setup process kind of killed my excitement at having a new receiver at home again after a gap of 1 year. ( The Yamaha, I remember, was very easy to setup relatively ). The menus are difficult and unintuitive. The remote also feels flimsy - might fly away if you sneeze on it.
I started with 2 tower speakers and a center channel + a sub and the sound was very disappointing out of the box - lacked a certain punch/edge the Yamaha had with the same setup. The auto calibration then improved the sound quite a bit - still the THX greeting sample from Lion King sounded dull and unsatisfactory. It could very well be the bad acoustics of my living room but I doubt that's the sole factor.
I was ready to return this and spare myself the effort of setting up the surround speakers in the walls but I decided to try them anyway. And I am glad I did it. The auto calibration did a great job and the sound effect improved by leaps and bounds. The same THX samples were sounding much firmer and was satisfactory ( always remember the price ;)
I motivated my just ehough to drag my self to navigating through the menu and manual to customize it further - it still lacks a certain quality that the Yamaha had in the same setup - but its ok now + remember $125. Slowly I hope to forget what the Yamaha sounded like. Also I guess setting it up in an acoustically 'sound' room will enhance the audio further. ( right now the front right and rear right share a wall - if you get what I mean ).
BTW all speakers of mine are Polk - 2 tower, 1 center and 2 surround rear + powered sub and seem to go well with this unit.
In short here is how I rate the features in this unit
Pros.
Very good sound ( at least a 5.1 setup needed ).
CAN REDUCE VOLUME WHILE MUTED - this is a great plus - not available in Yamaha.
Good value for money.
Good FM reception.
This one can really pump it up.
Cons ( mostly minor to moderate - no show stopper - lots of niggles )
Complicated menu system - ( its inevitable - you need to spend more time exploring it ).
No s-video input - I was surprised.
It takes around 5 secs for sound to come out after power up.
Unsatisfactory remote - cannot control non-Sony devices - at least the manual seems to say so.( I intend to call them about this )
Cable/TV audio sounds are much louder than the DVD/tuner at the same volume.
Auto scanning and storing of FM stations DOES NOT work as claimed in manual ( I intend to call them about this too).
Lacks quick access to bass/treble control. Yamaha had them on 2 knobs in front - very useful when listening to old tracks that's scratchy at normal treble setting. You could tone the treble down and enjoy some vintage 60-70s music.
Overall I am satisfied with the sound from this unit and its a special feeling when you walk away with more than $150 of your budget still intact. I am keeping this one unless it bombs on me in the next few weeks ( till the HD ready ones does more than just their pass through trick for $300 ).
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