Sony STR-DE897 Audio / Video Receiver, Black

by Sony

Product Details

Product Manual [5.78mb PDF]

• Item Weight: 27 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 20 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B00022RV9Y
• Item model number: STRDE897B
• Batteries: 2 AA batteries required. (included)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #123,944 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

The new STR-DE897/B Audio/Video Receiver features a 32-bit Dolby® Digital, Dolby Pro® Logic and dts® Decoder, a Digital Cinema Sound¿ System, 30 Station Presets and a 32-bit DSP with 13 Acoustic Environments. Keep your components connected with the STR-DE897/B.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love the Sony, September 10, 2004

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S. Garvey "wingnut1" (Madison, WI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sony STR-DE897 Audio / Video Receiver, Black (Electronics)

I recently replaced my JVC surround receiver with this one. I love it, now I have all the inputs I need for VCR, DVD, Sattelite, Etc.. It also lets me connect composit video devices and send them to my monitor through the s-video jack. With my JVC receiver I could never get a good balance between my surround speakers and my center and front speakers. With the new receiver it sounds great. The only problem is now I'm tempted to add side surrounds to get 7.1 surround.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars blown pre-channel, April 4, 2006

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J. Glasser "DJ Josh Blade" (OC, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sony STR-DE897 Audio / Video Receiver, Black (Electronics)

This receiver was a massive upgrade from the Magnavox I had for 10 years. Sounds decent, lots of inputs, I felt the setup was easy. The remote is tedious to operate and program indeed. The receiver is not even a year old and the pre-channel for the front right side blew and was sending distortion for both A and B speaker sets. One thing that annoyed me was that there was no Optical input for DVD audio. Only SA-CD, MD/Tape and Digital Satellite had optical inputs. The opticals are assignable but only assignable within the inputs listed above. Can't assign to DVD input...

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Nice sound. Controls are terrible, December 29, 2004

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Khaldoon B. Sakkal "Gadgeteer" (Houston, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sony STR-DE897 Audio / Video Receiver, Black (Electronics)

This unit looks nice and the sound is very good. Setup is not easy at all. The manual is terrible, and the user interface is very poor. For example, you cannot search for radio stations from the remote; you must enter the frequency or use the main unit dials. The remote is very poorly designed in general.