Sony BDVE500W, Great sound, better than..

Overall Rating55555

Great sound, better than Bose, Go for it

Great product from Sony, I have had it for about 2 weeks now, I have played it every day made it go through some rigorous tests. Works perfect, I did a compare with Bose 321GSX and found this to be a lot better for half the price!.

Excellent surround sound effect, IPOD dock works great, rear wireless speakers are amazing, even though Sony says not to keep the unit under the shelf, it still works great and the rear wireless work perfectly.

Easy setup, and looks great, I even hid the subwoofer behind the TV and did the auto calibration..sounds great.

I’d recommend a 100% buy.

Update (2/5/2012): This item is currently on sale here for the lowest price I’ve seen. I also found some auctions for this item here.

The featured review for this product, Sony BDVE500W 5.1-Channel High-Definition Blu-ray and DVD Disc Home Theater System Black Electronics Jul 24, 2009, was written by S. Misal.

The average rating for this item is 5 out of 5 stars, according to 3 reviews.

Related posts:

  1. HBH-IV835 Sony Ericsson, Great Sound and I can be..
  2. KDL-40S5100 Sony Bravia, Excellent TV after..
  3. Onkyo HT-S6200, A Great HTIB!
  4. Sony DVP-FX930/R 9-Inch, great product as advertised
  5. Onkyo HT-S6200, A Great HTIB!

Reviews (2)

S. Misal

April 4th, 2010 at 3:53 am    


Overall Rating55555

Great sound, better than Bose, Go for it
Rated 5 stars.


HP

April 15th, 2010 at 4:46 pm    


Overall Rating55555

Plenty of features for a HTIB
This system is awesome. I’ve had it for about a month now and watched a few movies with it. I’m not an audiophile and this is my first surround sound system for my primary living room theater.

I picked this system mainly because of the tower speakers and the S-AIR module. It’s a all in one system with a blue ray disk player that supports about 5 different digital audio codecs. It’s a clean minimalist design. I was surprised by the depth of the receiver. It’s bigger than I expected and fills the majority of shelf space in my entertainment stand.

One thing that bugged me are the the buttons on the top front edge of the receiver. They are small, the same shape and color which force you to read the label to tell what they are. This makes it even more irritating because the remote doesn’t have an eject button and I had to learn which of those tiny buttons would eject my disk. I guess I’m really lazy.

Assembly took all but 15 minutes. It took more time to arrange the pieces around the room. There’s a quick setup guide that will calibrate your system with an included microphone.

One thing to be aware of, as with most HTIB, there are no video inputs. What this means, is that you’ll need to connect all your video sources directly to the TV or a HDMI switch. However, there are mutliple audio inputs. So for example, if you wanted to connect your XBOX 360 to this unit, you’ll have to connect your HDMI to your tv and then use an optical cable to route the audio to the receiver. Or you could use the optical out from your TV. This is not ideal, in my opinion, but then again that was not a goal for me.

The sound is crisp, and clean. The sub-woofer gives strong enough punch that you can feel in your chest.

Blue ray disks load quicker than my LG blue ray player.

I’m very happy with my purchase. This was the right unit for me and I would recommend this unit to anyone else looking for an all in one system.


Leave a reply

Overall Rating

Name *

Mail *

Website