Sony STR-DG800 7.1-Channel Home Theater Receiver with HDMI Passthrough (Discontinued by Manufacturer)
Great Performance
Great performance as expected from this reciever. The HDMI passthrough did not work with my toshiba dvd recorder however as the toshiba has circutry that attempts to verify the HDMI connection before using it and it could not do this. I am not sure how many similar items verify the connection first but you may want to check your components first. Also I found the auto-calibrate feature to be innacurate in several ways. It biased the speaker balance to the left side and it was definately left heavy while listening to music. Also it left the subwoofer and surround speakers active even though I only have two front speakers and it specifically tests for this. Oh well. I like to adjust it myself anyway. Not a great loss. Don't be intimidated by the recievers feature set. Dive in head first and get used to it.