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Price on Apr 17, 2010 22:21:30 : $399.00
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Pioneer VSX-919AH-K 120 Watts A/V Receiver with Full Color GUI/OSD, Advanced MCACC and Analog to HDMI Up-Conversion (Black) Features
- I20 Watts x 7 ¿ PHAT II @ 1 kHz
- USB input for iPhone and iPod certified playback. Charging and Album art in 1st room
- Advanced MCACC, 9 Band EQ, Symmetric EQ
- Analog to HDMI Up-conversion
- New Preset Remote Control
Pioneer VSX-919AH-K 120 Watts A/V Receiver with Full Color GUI/OSD, Advanced MCACC and Analog to HDMI Up-Conversion (Black) Overviews
VSX-9I9AH I20 Watts x 7 ¿ PHAT II @ 1 kHz Full Color GUI / OSD USB input for iPhone and iPod certified playback. Charging and Album art in 1st room. Advanced MCACC 9 Band EQ Symmetric EQ X-Curve PQLS ¿ 2 Channel Auto Level Control ¿ Multi-Channel Sound Retriever ¿ Multi- channel Neural THX / WMA-9 Pro Kuro Link Analog to HDMI Up-conversion PureCinema Video Processing 3D Noise Reduction 3D Y/C Separation Audio Inputs (4 in / 1out - includes Tuner) Digital Inputs (3 - 1 coax / 2 opt) Multi-Zone A/V Pre-out New Preset Remote Control
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Customer Review
You'll be hard pressed to find a receiver with more features in this price range. I spent ALOT of time researching receivers and for the money the VSX-919-AH-K was it.I am extremely pleased with it. For the price, you get lots of features, some not available on units 3 or 4 times the price. Sound, the sound is excellent, very clean, match it with quality speakers and people will think you spent alot more than you did. The on screen programming is really cool, and the MACC (auto calibration), which will configure speaker level and to some extent the sound parameters is really helpful as it allows you to get it up and running right away. As you learn more about the functionality you may want to tweak the auto settings, but you wont have to. It was nice being able to run 3 HDMI and,or Composite devices through it eliminating some cables. It has a clean look to it, and the remote can be programmed to operate multiple devices. The manual could use some work. The informaiton is in there, it's just not well written. Sometimes the auto select for the surround mode does not choose what you would expect, but you can change it. The setup was not all that difficult. If this is your first surround receiver (or in my case first reveiver that also controlled the video), it can be a little tricky. Remember whatever format you put into the receiver, HDMI, Composite, etc, you have to have that same format going out to the TV. You can't plug all your devices into the recevier and then just have the HDMI or Composite, etc going to the TV. All in all a good receiver at a great price. I am using Klipsch Quintet speakers and a Klipsch 10" powered sub, and as for the rated power of 90w @ 8ohms or 120w @ 6ohms, I cannot turn it all the way up and stay in the room, at least not comfortably.
Needed "category 2" HDMI cables - Randy Millard - New York
I ordered one of these and ended up returning it because I could not get any HDMI video/audio to work. My original purchase was from the "Amazon Warehouse Deals" department which are used items. I figured it was not tested correctly and was busted so I returned it.
I then decided to order it new (costing me an extra ). Once I got it I hooked it up and the same thing happened. For the life of me I could not get HDMI to work. I am by no means an AV guru but I have hooked up other systems before and to me it's not brain surgery to at the least be able to get a picture and sound. In any case I was at the end of my ropes, I was going to return it again and go with another brand when I decided to do some more research in a last ditch effort to resolve this issue. I found a review of a different brand receiver where the guy mentions that he had problems with HDMI and to make a long story short he found in his user manual that it stated he needed to use "category 2" HDMI cables. I wikid this and found that there are a few different versions of HDMI cables one of which is category 2 or "high speed" HDMI. Up until then I thought that all HDMI cables were the same. The last time I read up about HDMI was over a year ago so things have apparently changed since then.
Anyway, I checked the Pioneer manual and no where did I see a reference to needing to use high speed HDMI cables. I checked the Pioneer website and FAQ and saw no mention of the need for these cables. I had tested the cables I was using by directly connecting them to the TV, bypassing the receiver so I know my cables were working. I however noted that my cables were not "high speed". I decided to buy a pair of category 2 HDMI cables and try again before returning this receiver. Once I hooked this up using these high speed category 2 HDMI cables I was able to get video and sound.
I have not spent much time using my receiver so this review is based solely on my experience thus far. My opinion is that Pioneer has seriously dropped the ball by not including this HDMI cable information anywhere. I am very surprised that there have not been any other complaints on Amazon about this (I think I only saw one other person with a similar problem), must be everyone is buying these high speed cables now. There is no excuse to not at least mention somewhere in their manual or website that if you have problems with HDMI that it could be because the type of HDMI cable you are using, especially if they REQUIRE that you use this type of cable.
I hope this post helps others that may have this problem not have to go through what I have had to go through.
I will add to my review once I've actually experienced my receiver in actual use for a while.
Excellent product- so much to learn - Chris - Indianapolis, IN
I've owned this unit for a couple of weeks and just got it running since I was waiting for my speakers to arrive. I can't give you a tech savvy review, but I can tell you I like this Pioneer quite a bit. I own a Pioneer audio unit for my music, which is amazing, so I researched many brands to come up with something to replace some way outdated equipment. I wanted to check out other brands, but for the options and price- this can't be beat. Easy to set up- hooking my U-Verse and PS3 into the unit and sending it to my Samsung HDTV was simple. The graphic interface was impressive as I configured the whole system using this. It took some time and messing around with the settings to get what I wanted- but it was worth it. The sound is crisp and there are so many options I have yet to experiment with. You can't go wrong with this.
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