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(More customer reviews)This is by far the nicest receiver I have ever owned. The sound is great and the design is elegant, with only two knobs, one row of buttons, and a small "porthole" LCD on the front. It projects a sort of confidence, "I don't need to show off with rows of glowing controls; it's all under the hood." That said, the design entails certain compromises -- some aspects of the receiver are difficult to configure unless it is attached to a TV by HDMI. If you don't plan to connect it to a screen in that way, this probably isn't a good choice for you. The same holds for debugging; if it doesn't do what you expect, you're going to have a hard time figuring out what's wrong without any sort of diagnostic output on the unit itself.
However, if you do plan to connect it to a screen via HDMI, you're home free. It connects to audio sources via component cables, TOS-link, HDMI, ethernet, USB and bluetooth (with RX101 adapter, not included). It connects to video sources via HDMI and component cables. It can send two different audio streams to different sets of speakers, if you are watching TV in one room and somebody wants to listen to music in another. It comes with a microphone, which it can use in self-configuration to optimize its setting for the room in which it is placed.
Issues: Though the device has Airplay, which allows it to play music from iTunes over the local network, I haven't yet been able to get it to work correctly. The remote that comes with it is a very old school slab of buttons, but Logitech has not yet updated its database for Harmony universal remotes to work with the SR5006. I figure they'll probably do it soon. Finally, and this is not a Marantz issue I think, the box arrived from Amazon looking as though it had been kicked open, taped up, then kicked open again. The cardboard was shredded and the styrofoam was crumbled. I was surprised the receiver was unscarred. Amazon should have put another box around the Marantz shelf box.
The real test will come over time, and I will update this review if I run into problems.
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The SR5006 is loaded with numerous convenience features and tremendous sonic capabilities. Features include a 7-channel discrete amplifier (100 watts x 7), network/streaming of Internet radio, Napster, Pandora and more, up-scaling HDMI to HDMI 1080 video, multi room audio, six HDMI inputs, plus it's certified Control4, Crestron and AMX compatible.
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