Harman Kardon AVR 510 Audio/Video Receiver



Product Feature
- Amplifier delivers 70 watts per channel in surround mode
- Dolby Digital, DTS, and HDCD decoding
- Multiroom/multisource audio adds versatility
- MP3 decoding for use with computers and digital audio players
- EzSet remote balances speaker levels
Product Description
It was bound to happen sooner or later. We just wouldn't have expected it in a high-end component: Harman Kardon has taken the lead in digital home theater integration with the world's first audio-video (AV) receivers to offer built-in MP3 decoding. When connected to a computer with a compatible coaxial digital audio output jack, this exclusive innovation lets you enjoy high-quality playback of MP3-encoded CDs or Internet-delivered streaming media.The current top-of-the-line model, the AVR 510, also includes Harman Kardon's exclusive, patented EzSet remote, the first-ever remote to automatically analyze and set speaker levels for your surround system. The remote includes a measuring and calibration system that automatically balances speaker channel levels for optimum surround sound listening, regardless of the playback format.
The AVR 510 uses 24-bit, 192 kHz digital audio converters (DACs) for the highest-resolution audio playback available today. As an added benefit, feeding the digital output of most CD players to the AVR 510 will provide dramatically better sound quality than you'd hear playing back through standard 16-bit, 44.1 kHz DACs. Surround sound performance consists of not only Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1-channel decoding, but two proprietary Harman audio technologies, Logic 7 and VMAx, which take surround-sound and stereo audio reproduction to new levels of sonic excitement.
Harman Kardon AVR 510 Audio/Video Receiver Review
All around this is a good amp, but the truth is that I could have gotten a Sony for half the money that would've been the same, if not better quality. The options for surround are nice (there is a 5 channel stereo), but the "hall" mode gives no echo effect, and the "theatre" mode does nothing for me either. The main reason I really wanted surround and especially the center channel, was to make peoples voices louder while watching DVD's because I run for the remote every time something loud happens. I'm all for the audio experience, but ambients are just too loud in movies these days and I have neighbors who I'm sure will agree with me. Turning the center channel all the way up and the other 4 speakers all the way down does almost nothing. They should have made these buttons actually have an impact on the sound, instead it just seems like all the audio tracks come through the center channel even with the little DTS light "on" that should seperate all the tracks.Another stinker was that every video out RCA jack was broken right out of the box, (I know this only after a grueling process of elimination). I also must say I'm a little disappointed in amazon too for not double boxing this. It is customary to send expensive components in a DOUBLE BOX so it takes less abuse in transit and is not stolen. I'm never going to purchase something of this granduer online again.
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