Sony HT-SS2300 Component Home Theater System

Sony HT-SS2300 Component Home Theater System
by Sony

List Price: ~~$499.99~~
Category: Home Theater
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Manufacturer: Sony
Brand: Sony
Edition: Electronics
Model: HT-SS2300
Color: Black
Publisher: Sony
Studio: Sony
Music Label: Sony
Product features:

Blu-ray Disc? player matching design A/V receiver
Optimized for Blu-ray Disc? w/ 8 Ch LPCM
1080p HDMI? Active Intelligence (3 in/1 out)
Accepts 1080p signal & Linear PCM via HDMI?
Digital Cinema Auto Calibration (mic included)

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Customer Review: The best $300 I have ever spent!!
Summary: 5 Stars

I spent about six months researching sound systems. I stumbled upon this one pretty early on and never found another system that could compete with it. Now I've had the system for about a year. In that time I've played hours of PS3 on it, watched about 200 movies (about have bluray half DVD) and I am absolutely convinced that it is the best $300 that I have ever spent.

Features- There plenty of systems out there that cost $1000 and don't have the features this unit does. The auto tune works very well, but I manually tune the system depending on the movie and where everyone in the room is sitting. The HDMI input are a HUGE advantage with this system. When I was doing my research no other system in this price range offered the HDMI capabilities of this unit. The 3 HDMI in and one out, makes this super easy to hook up to all your devices. I have my PS3, 360, and satellite/DVR going into the receiver. The HDMI out goes into my TV (KDS-R60XBR1). I have the PS3 bluray set to output the sound in bitstream, and this allows the ss 2300 to decode the sound rather than the PS3. All you have to do is set the unit on auto and it will decode whatever sound format you give it. The color coded wires were nice. The FM/AM tuner is awesome.

Sound quality- is awesome! After I installed the ss 2300 I was watching some football and listening to the commentators talk. I had the TV remote in one hand and the ss 2300 remote in the other. I always thought my TV (KDS-R60XBR1) sound was pretty high quality until I compared the two. After muting the ss 2300 and listening to TV sound, it seemed like the commentators were literally speaking through a pillow, or at least a really thick blanket. With the TV volume muted and all the sound coming from the ss 2300 the commentator voices were crystal clear. It sounded like they were in the room with me. The difference in sound quality is unbelievable.

Loudness- 1000 watts. Need I say more? This thing is loud! The room I have it in is 18 ft long and 24ft wide with a high vaulted ceiling (upstairs gameroom). I like the volume louder than most people and the highest I have ever watched a movie was volume 28 (max is 40). 90% of movies I watch the volume is set between 18 and 24. This system shakes the walls and the floor! At volume 24 you can hear most movies from outside the house. I think my close friend described it best when I asked how he liked the sound system and he said "It was awesome, I could feel it in my chest!"

Appearance- This unit looks 10000000 times better than all the other sound systems I've looked at. The receiver is nice and slim. All the other receivers are huge and ugly. Receivers today look exactly the same as sound receivers from the 80's, except for this one! This receiver looks so futuristic compared to the rest. When I first got it I was worried that since it was so slim and compact (about 1/3 the height of other receivers) it would have problems over heating. I am glad to report there are no heat issues and this receiver. It remains nice and cool even after hours of use. The speakers also look really nice. They are small enough to hide and friends won't notice them, but they are big enough to put out a full range of sound. I love how all the speakers say Sony on them. This looks just like (size and appearance) Sony bluray players! So if you have a Sony set up it will match very nicely. The receiver and speakers are all very high quality and look much better than the competition.

Install- Super easy. 3 HDMI's in, one out. One color coded wire to each speaker. I went to Fry's and got a set of universal wall mounts for all the speakers and it worked very well. Wires are nice and small, easy to hide.

Sub woofer- This is the only part of the SS 2300 that I do not like. The sub woofer is very loud and will shake the walls, but I don't think it provides a very full range of sound. All the sound coming from the sub sounds the same. Its kind of a dull sound. I noticed the sub is a lot lighter (weight) than my previous sub. I don't know much about passive/active. Maybe all passive subs have this problem.

Compared to my other systems- In 1998 I got a top of the line Bose 5.1 system. It was very loud. But very complicated to install, very had to tune, and didn't have many features. In 2005 I got a Sony virtual surround 3.1 system. It was $800. I was very disappointed because no matter what they say 3.1 DOES NOT EQUAL 5.1!!! It did not sound like surround sound at all. The system was very high quality but it was not as immersing as a true 5.1 system. The ss-2300 is easily better than my previous systems. It is a true surround sound and makes you feel like you are in the middle of the action. The sub on my bose and 3.1 was better than the sub on the ss2300, but all the other aspects of the 2300 easily outweigh that one flaw. The ss2300 is also much easier to use than other other 2 systems.

Final Verdict- This system is highest quality available in its price range and beyond. It is very loud even at half volume. It looks much nicer than the competition. It has a huge amount of features. If you are looking for an awesome surround sound to bring together your cable, bluray, and gaming systems, look no further!!

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Description of Sony HT-SS2300 Component Home Theater System

The Sony HT-SS2300 home theater system offers everything you need to set up a Blu-ray Disc? Theater (Blu-ray Disc? Player sold separately). A slim receiver design offers great styling for your home theater while giving you the performance you?d expect from a Sony System. This system includes a 5.1 A/V receiver with 1000 watts (RMS) and HDMI? Active Intelligence complemented with DIGITAL MEDIA PORT interface, so regardless of where you store your music, it offers an access point and provides control for one of Sony?s DIGITAL MEDIA PORT accessories (except TDM-BT1; accessories sold separately). In addition, the Portable Audio Enhancer integrates portable music into a traditional home theater system while providing enhanced audio quality. The A/V receiver?s HDMI interface transmits both audio and video while offering 1080p and full bandwidth sound tracks (LPCM) support through a single cable. Finally, The HT-SS2300 can also control a select number of BRAVIA® televisions with BRAVIA® Sync via HDMI?. With ?One Touch Play,? operations that took several steps have been reduced to one.

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