RX-A4A AVENTAGE 7.2-Channel AV Receiver with MusicCast

A fine upgrade. It's overly complicated, but once you have it dialed and set, you're done. Great sound and the room seems so much bigger. I run a power amp from it to drive the mains. I also run it Straight.

Chegou em perfeito estado!

Fabulous AVR. Does the job, and is sonically accurate. Connects all my 4K devices correctly. If you need more power it offers pre-outs for the main channels for axillary amps. For the average home that's unnecessary. Has good network streaming, a turntable input, and digital FM. The audio environments are amazing for films. The ambiance options are genuine acoustic mappings of actual places. Good for symphonic pieces. Best of you download the manual and have it printed and bound at a nearby copy shop. Let's you calibrate your speakers to the room. Cool

Produto bem construido, fácil de manuseio; Reprodução do som bem honesta!(possui a potência aproximada de 450W).

The RX-A4A is very easy to use via either the remote control or the MusicCast iOS app. The front panel of the unit has only two dials (volume and input selector) and four buttons for selecting pre-programmed inputs. Plus front panel connectors for USB and a headphone. Missing is a front panel connector for HDMI which is unfortunate because there are still times I want to connect a laptop to the receiver using my traveling HDMI cable. Now I have to dedicate an HDMI cable connected to a back panel HDMI connection. My previous AV receiver was the RX-V2095 purchased in 2007. That has pretty good audio but the RX-A4A noticeably improves upon that unit especially on the predefined audio and video settings for concert halls and Sci-Fi movie content. Most interesting is the Artificial Intelligence surround sound choice. It does a decent job of determining the best distribution of voice and instrumentation to the speakers based on the source. But I do find I don't like the AI distribution on older audio content that originated from the early days of stereo. Too much of the voice is pushed to the center speaker on that old content which indicates the AI is working as programmed but I'm more used to the 60's and 70's music being evenly distributed between two front speakers. So the best choice, as it was with the RX-2095 was to evenly instruments and voice to all speakers. In my case 7 channel stereo. Otherwise I am pleased with how the AI Surround works. Video management is much easier than the RX-2095 and there is no degradation of video quality that I'm seeing but I'm also not doing any detailed analysis on that. So overall I am very pleased with the RX-A4A. Easy to use and outstanding audio.