Yeah I've been pretty happy with this. A local shop owner, who is also an active participant on a home theatre forum I'm on, recommended it in place of a Harmon Kardon that I had been looking at. He was running the same unit at his house, and he has quite a selection to choose from, and there was little difference in price although I wasn't sure about Panasonic as an audiphile choice! I was pleasantly surprised in the quality at the price point.jetstar52 wrote: What do you think of the receiver? I'm really impressed with mine. It replaced a stack of 5 separates and a video switcher for $199, and it sounds great to me.
I'd like a little more flexibility in the input namings as I ended up with some strange device names on the front panel (no biggie since the remote is making sure I have the right one), a display of which speakers are active vs how many channels are incoming. and a little less confusing setup with the sound modes (although once you get them right I'm happy with how they work and it does do intelligent rmembering by device and switches modes when the input type switches well).
Thanks for your work on the SA HE200, it did help even though I didn't use the device combiner and just gleaned some insights and codes out of it (so far). I still haven't been able to use a KM file, or the devices4.xls, but I did get excel today so I'll see how it goes. I tried devices4.xls but although I get a device type dropdown I didn't see the codes available per device. As a newbie at using excel I'm probably missing something basic.