Sony STRDH590 5.2 Channel Encompass Sound Dwelling Theater Receiver: 4K HDR AV Receiver with Bluetooth,Black

Sounds great! And works as promised — and as advertised.
UPDATE: I love this thing. Upgrade from four to five stars!Once you get used to the features, the remote is simplex – a definite improvement over the ancient device and remote it replaced.Updated review comments:- Basic remote use is a one-button press ON for FM, TV, or Bluetooth (which pairs easily).- Angle and range of the remote are awesome (for me at least).- Front panel display is very readable, and the light level is adjustable to several presets to OFF.- The manual onboard volume control is micro-adjustable; no “move it a tiny bit and too loud.”- Easy access to digital process presets (Stadium, Concert, Jazz, etc.), and they are “just enough.”- Sound quality is exactly what I hoped for. It perfectly drives my two (really old) KEF Carina 2 speakers and two (really old) satellite Radio Shack Optimus Pro X44AV.- A simple, old-school Pyle speaker selector switch (purchased via Amazon) easily accommodates front/satellite speaker switching/combining (as there is no second set of speaker OUTs on the Sony). Nonetheless, the Sony receiver drives them both pairs of speakers as hoped — no worries.- I can accept that there is no AM on this thing. Truth be known, about the only time I’ve ever used AM has been in weather emergency situations, looking for someplace – any place – to get info. However, I now have a spiffy Midland battery/solar/hand-cranked AM/FM/NOAA Weather radio (via Amazon) for that. So, no AM on the Sony is not a deal breaker.INITIAL REVIEW:My 26-year-old Sony AV Receiver was intermittently shutting down and displaying “PROTECTION.” I opened it up, blew out a ton of dust, examined and found no bulging capacitors, re-assembled – and it worked flawlessly – for about 6 months.Bought this low/mid-range one to replace the old one. It works, however there are things I like and dislike:PRO:• Despite the complex possibilities of set-up and calibration with the included microphone, it was truly just plug-and-play.• The Display is clear, sufficiently bright, and easily customizable.• The remote is much smaller, more intuitive, and less complex than the old one.• Printed user manual – cool.CON:• Sony’s approach (still) is to handle a lot of (almost all?) the adjustments for you. For example, no simple tone controls. “Just leave the sausage making up to us, and we’ll provide the only pre-sets you’ll really need.”• If you were to brave following all the set-up directions in the user manual, you should first get a degree in signal path, gain structure, and network configuration.• There is no AM tuner – just FM. I get it. Fancy-ish home AV systems rarely, or never dial-up AM stations.• No B channel speaker outputs! My old receiver accommodated two main sets of speakers: “A” speakers were 5.1 plus sub for the big room, and “B” speakers were a simple L/R for another set of speakers (ours are wired, in the kitchen). To solve this missing feature, I’ve ordered a simple manual Pyle A/B switch (actually A/B/C/D) to take the output of the receiver and have the option of playing just A, B, or both A and B (like the old unit had built-in).About that A, no B thing: None of the Sony AV Receivers I researched from base model to those costing thousands, have outputs for a B set of speakers. None. If I missed one, would love to know about it.Also, all my speakers are 8 Ω, so if this doubling-up on load via the Pyle switch yields impedance woes, I’ll update this review.

It works great so far (Bought it 12/1/24)
Works great so far. Using it for 5.1 set-up. Great sound thru my Polk/Pioneer speakers. Like how it changes audio inputs automatically when I switch from TV streaming to cable viewing. Have a 30-year-old CD player hooked to it and it sounds great. Picks up radio stations great as well. Nice unit, not your high end unit but for my 70+ year old ears it’s great. My first experience with Sony receivers, it replaced a malfunctioning Onkyo unit. Have preferred Pioneer receivers over the years but very happy with this Sony unit so far.

Me gustó mucho el amplificador, es de muy fácil uso, la calidad y potencia de audio es excepcional, garantía de la calidad de SONY.Conecté mi Televisión, Bluray, tornamesa, computadora, y con el plus del Bluetooth se conecta mi celular. TODOS funcionan excelente.

I like it. It works as intended, I keep discovering new features and ways to use it as I read the manuals more often and do some tests.It’s foot print is small compared to others, but be cautious about the height it says it has, because I believe the feets are not included in that height. I do love my new TV stand I bought to fit this as the other had 6″ but this supposed ≈5″ wouldn’t fit in. I would say it’s height with feet is about 6.25″ to 6.5″The Led display on the device could be bigger/larger imo but for what we need it’s good enough. The TV on-screen menu is easier to play with but the built-in display at least prevents to have to quit what you’re doing to go into the hdmi earc input use the on-screen display so I would say it’s good that we have both options even if the built-in can feel limited. At least the shortening of the options makes it obvious for most, and the online official manual on the sony website makes it easy to know what you’re tweaking and how to get there with a step by step guide.The only cons for me so far are that I feel that only 4 hdmi ins is a very small amount. A lot of us has an xbox, switch, ps5, pc and more to connect onto these things so 4 built-in hdmi in gets quickly filled to the max. At least we can use the unused tv hdmi inputs to fill in whats left which is good.The other con is there isn’t a pre-amp output for active speakers. Hopefully you already own passive speakers or else be ready to shell them extra $$$ like I ended up doing.The other con is the sound from hdmi inputs is loud, but from the TV it cam be quiet. Luckily there is a built-in TV DB offset which permits to add an extra 6db that helps a lot. I still felt the sound was quiet so I went into the AMP menu and found I can boost individual speakers in DB. I ended up boosting each by a few extra DBs to compensate and now it’s loud enough compared to the hdmi inputs. If you used the included calibration mic, I recommend to keep the differences in DB from each speakers. Example: I had the Fronts at 0 and the sub at -1.5 from the calibration, I boosted 4.5db the fronts and the sub went to 3 to keep that 1.5db in difference. This permits to keep the balanced sound the calibration did for us, while boosting extras to compensate for the weaker TV ouput.The other con which is unrelated to the receiver, damn there isn’t a lot of good 5.1 content out there. Seriously. In games, except hearing a few sounds from behind me from times to times, not much. In movies and series, only very rarely do I stumbled upon one that actually make use of the 5.1, most are stereo and that’s it. I’m still glad I have it, but I was expecting to get that good surround sound most of the time rather than only sometimes.All in all, I am satisfied. Truly. Everything it throwed at me could be fixed by simply knowing how to properly tweaked it and reading its very simple manual.Please be aware that the cons I faced might be because this is my first AV Receiver, but maybe my music studio experience helped me a lot to figure out how to properly tweak it to get the most of it in every situation i encountered so far.