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3.5 stars
"Beautiful looks, great sound"
Pros: Design, quality, sound quality
Cons: Can use more power
Summary: Bought this for $699 canadian. I had tried two other amplifiers before this one, the Yamaha HTR-5920s(5930 in the states), the Denon AVR-486($499 canadian), and this one.
My system is a Polk RM6800 HTIB, which is fairly decent and some say is even superior to the Bose Acoustimass series.
The HK amp is a marvel to look at, I love the blue lit volume control knob, the black glossy front, and the silver bottom panel.. truly a work of art.
Sound quality is pretty darn good. Crisp sound, even reproductions across all frequencies. However, i found the yamaha amp to be superior in clean sound at high volumes. I don't like it that HK publishes their class of power handling, they rate this amp at 40 watts a channel, which is obviously an understatement of its true power. It easily demolishes the Denon AVR-486s rated at 85 watts a channel. However, compared to the Yamaha HTR-5920s' 110 watts RMS/channel, i felt the HK receiver to be slightly less strong. Mind you, the sound is clean but the receiver is lacking at high volume. I'd suggest moving up to the AVR240 or more with the stronger amplifiers(AVR240 has 50 watts/channel).
Oh, another quirk is that you cannot see the on screen menu using component video, you have to use the regular composite video(red/white/yellow rca), which is quite troublesome. In addition it does not upconvert composite video to component video. For this price, thats a big no no.
In summary, great looks, great sound, minor quirks, could use a bit more power.
