Great AV Amp & Receiver - Pioneer VSX-D906S 5.1 (Dolby Digital®, DTS®) Channel Home Audio Receiver
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Note: This review originally written in April 2000 and published on http://www.epinions.com/ - now also found on http://www.dealtime.com/
Pros: Easy to setup, great system remote
Cons: No DTS, can't put anything on top of the amp due to heat
I've always had Pioneer..... my father started me on this road - with a wonderful valve amp - problem was when you couldn't get valves, the amp had to go. The replacement was a small Pioneer shelf system, followed by another small shelf system.
When it came time to do the Home Cinema thing.... Pioneer was the answer. After looking at the various amps and a/v receivers, I decided upon the Pioneer 906S from our local discount "warehouse" reseller. The system is 100 watts per channel, with Front Left & Right, Rear Left & Right, Center and sub-woofer outputs, and 10 audio video inputs (one is the built in FM/AM tuner).
One swipe of the Mastercard, and I was the proud owner of a large cardboard box! And then... I remembered that I'd need a bunch more RCA cables - so some more cash was spent on decent gold ended oxygen free RCA video and audio cables.
Got home, unpacked the box - great... free batteries for the imposing system compatible learning remote control.
Plugged the amp in, connected up the VCR, satellite TV, CD Player, speakers and TV. Now for the acid test - I pushed the on switch. A few seconds later, a welcome screen appeared on the TV, with a calibration system for setting the system up.
Switched to metric (in South Africa we're metric!) - and told the system about my speaker config, and how far from each other and from me they are positioned. Then set up the crossover for bass reproduction. Initially, when I installed the system, I used the front 75 watt Pioneer 3 way speakers for bass - I now have a 12" active JBL sub woofer which is definitely an improvement.
Other additions to the system since my inital purchase have been a Pioneer twin cassette tape deck, Pioneer DVD player, second VCR and the JBL sub.
Once answering the onscreen setup, I taught the system commander remote about my TV and VCR - both listed in the system's memory. I had to teach the remote all the commands for my unlisted Pace satellite TV decoder.
Up and running in a total of around an hour. Good thing I remembered to buy all those additional RCA cables though!
Now that I have all the other bits... listed above, the system really comes into its fullest. DVD is great - the Dolby Digital 5.1 (AC3) surround sound is great! Hi-Fi stereo from the VCR and satellite are not bad too. Give the system a THX DVD source and the digital audio cable calibrates the amp to the correct settings!
All I need now for my home cinema setup to be really great is a big screen TV.
Bookmark :
Note: This review originally written in April 2000 and published on http://www.epinions.com/ - now also found on http://www.dealtime.com/
Pros: Easy to setup, great system remote
Cons: No DTS, can't put anything on top of the amp due to heat
I've always had Pioneer..... my father started me on this road - with a wonderful valve amp - problem was when you couldn't get valves, the amp had to go. The replacement was a small Pioneer shelf system, followed by another small shelf system.
When it came time to do the Home Cinema thing.... Pioneer was the answer. After looking at the various amps and a/v receivers, I decided upon the Pioneer 906S from our local discount "warehouse" reseller. The system is 100 watts per channel, with Front Left & Right, Rear Left & Right, Center and sub-woofer outputs, and 10 audio video inputs (one is the built in FM/AM tuner).
One swipe of the Mastercard, and I was the proud owner of a large cardboard box! And then... I remembered that I'd need a bunch more RCA cables - so some more cash was spent on decent gold ended oxygen free RCA video and audio cables.
Got home, unpacked the box - great... free batteries for the imposing system compatible learning remote control.
Plugged the amp in, connected up the VCR, satellite TV, CD Player, speakers and TV. Now for the acid test - I pushed the on switch. A few seconds later, a welcome screen appeared on the TV, with a calibration system for setting the system up.
Switched to metric (in South Africa we're metric!) - and told the system about my speaker config, and how far from each other and from me they are positioned. Then set up the crossover for bass reproduction. Initially, when I installed the system, I used the front 75 watt Pioneer 3 way speakers for bass - I now have a 12" active JBL sub woofer which is definitely an improvement.
Other additions to the system since my inital purchase have been a Pioneer twin cassette tape deck, Pioneer DVD player, second VCR and the JBL sub.
Once answering the onscreen setup, I taught the system commander remote about my TV and VCR - both listed in the system's memory. I had to teach the remote all the commands for my unlisted Pace satellite TV decoder.
Up and running in a total of around an hour. Good thing I remembered to buy all those additional RCA cables though!
Now that I have all the other bits... listed above, the system really comes into its fullest. DVD is great - the Dolby Digital 5.1 (AC3) surround sound is great! Hi-Fi stereo from the VCR and satellite are not bad too. Give the system a THX DVD source and the digital audio cable calibrates the amp to the correct settings!
All I need now for my home cinema setup to be really great is a big screen TV.
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