User manual

Sound Quality
I have played “Café Del Mar” albums amongst other music
material through this speaker and it handles the bulk of the
music – the midrange and treble notes – properly without any
“breaking up”.
The bass does exist but doesn’t “boom” or sound like an old juke
box even if you turn the system up. Therefore Ifind that this
system is capable of yielding a “mature” sound with any
recording you throw atit.
Conclusion and Placement Notes
This speaker system would be useful as speakers for adesktop or
laptop computer or can work as extension speakers for an MP3
or network-media player, aDiscman or one of the Internet radios
that Ireviewed. Iwould also recommend using it as
supplementary-area speakers for the Sony STR-DA5500ES
home-theatre receiver that Ireviewed or other amplifiers that
expose avolume-independent line-level output.
The only limitation is that there isn’t an ability for them to make
them easily work properly as pure active speakers for
apre-amplifier, where there is tone adjustment at the amplifier.
This could be facilitated through a “power-only” mode which
bypasses the controls.
Links
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Product Review – Sony
STR-DA5500ES
network-enabled home
theatre receiver
17/05/2010 03:43
[1]I am reviewing the Sony STR-DA5500ES high-end home
theatre receiver which is the first network-capable home-theatre
receiver that Ihave reviewed in my blog. At the moment, Sony
have supplied me with the SRS-DB500 2.1 powered speaker set
which Iwill be reviewing in aseparate article on this blog, for
use with this receiver.
Some of you who may not understand sophisticated audio setups
will benefit from areference page which will explain the terms
that Iwill use when describing this receiver and other audio
equipment in thisblog.
This unit is the second model down from the top-of-the-line
STR-DA6400ES receiver in Sony’s high-end “ES” range of
home-theatre receivers but is still very capable in its
home-theatre-hubrole.
Fit and finish
This receiver has the same fit and finish associated with the
good-quality Sony hi-fi equipment that has existed for many
years/The controls are smooth and properly responsive and the
unit’s finish looks “very polished”.
Usability
[2]This unit excels on useability in asimilar manner to most Sony
home AV equipment that Ihave used.It has that very bright
vacuum-fluorescent display that is easy to read even at dim levels
and the controls are easy to manage.
Normally comes with two remotes – one with many buttons for
controlling ahome-theatre system’s components and for full
control of the receiver; one for GUI-based control of the receiver.
Connectivity and Flexibility
This high-end receiver excels in this field of connectivity and
flexibility. There are seven 120W power amplifiers built in to this
unit’s chassis. You can set up a7.1-channel speaker setup so you
can properly enjoy movie content on Blu-Ray discs that is mixed
to aDolby Digital EX 7.1-channel sound-mix. On the other hand,
you can set up a5.1-channel speaker setup for Dolby Digital
5.1-channel sound-mixes commonly on digital TV or DVD and use
the two spare power amplifiers for different setups.
Firstly, you could have speakers in another room to play another
stereo sound source to that room or set up asophisticated
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