Customer Reviews for Harmon Kardon - 875W 7.2-Ch. Network-Ready 4K Ultra HD and 3D Pass-Through A/V Home Theater Receiver - Black
Customer Rating
4
Quality Reciever
on December 30, 2014
Posted by: DMB12679
from Chicago, IL, United States
Gender:Male
Love the look of this AVR. Was skeptical with the reduced weight and how it would compare to my old AVR354. It holds it own. Love the sounds and the power is there when needed. I run Klipsch speakers 5.1 and DefTech outdoor off zone 2. I have had zero issues with the power supply. Not sure how it would do with hard to drive speakers at unrealistic volume levels, but with my set up it has all the guts needed to do the job. The only thing I would like to see on this receiver is a little more room for speaker wire hook up. It is a struggle getting the wires in.
I purchased the receiver shortly after it came out. I have two cherry JBL Studio 880s attached to it and it really performs as well as I would have hoped. I purchased the receiver over the lower tier ones for the bells and whistles. Stuff like air play, wireless network connectivity and such.
I'm really hoping for a software update however. During lengthy airplay streams over an hour or so the unit will occasionally drop connection with an airplay device, or while watching a movie on the computer while being connected over optical, the unit will put itself into sleep mode despite clearly being used and receiving a signal.
All and in all I am satisfied, but these two particular issues detract from the premium experience I was expecting.
Hi, I have had this unit for about a week now and this is what i have learned so far. The good. Great looks plenty of power many options to customize your inputs outputs etc. very light unit compared to most harman gear i have owned preouts for all channels Remote is pretty good on this unit however when you use the light function it does not light up all the buttons ( 4 in the upper middle )
Wish list would have liked to be able to assign the unused surround channels to biamp my front speakers there is only 1 component input so make sure all your input gear can do hdmi after using the automatic setup bass was so heavy i had to manual adjust. not had to do that with my previous harman gear. would love to see app support like other devices for netflix hulu etc. no phono input no preout / power-in for seperate eq or processor ( probably not needed for most people )
Conclusion I would recommend this unit to any of my friends who want to spend $900+ on a very nice harman kardon AVR.