Product Description
For more than 50 years, Harman Kardon products have been engineered to deliver the ultimate listening experience. That tradition continues with Harman Kardon's new flagship AVR 7550HD home theater receiver. High performance starts with Harman Kardon's highest-current, ultra-wide amplifier design which delivers uncomprimised realism and dynamics from your all your music and movies, including today's latest high-definition sources like Blu-ray. Connect your Blu-ray player to the AVR 7550HD and it will play back the high-resolution Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks with stunning detail. The AVR 7550HD can even deliver an exciting 5.1 or 7.1 surround experience from sources that aren't in encoded in surround sound using proprietary Logic 7 processing. For connecting to today's latest sources the AVR 7550HD offers internet connectivity for the latest internet radio content. The AVR 7550HD can even play back content from your iPod with the included Bridge II iPod dock. The AVR 7550HD also includes the latest sound processing technology from Dolby laboratories called Dolby Volume. Set your preferred volume once and Dolby Volume maintains that level across all your content no matter what source you happen to be listening. When it comes to video, the AVR 7550HD sets the same performance standard that it does for audio. Using advanced Faroudja processing, video is upscaled to stunning 1080p resolution while display settings can be indpendently optimized by source for the best picture possible. Setting up and using the AVR 7550HD couldn't be easier. It offers dual zone capabilities and is even capable of being integrating into an A-BUS distributed audio system. Finally, a newly developed high-definition full-color on-screen menu system utilizes both pictures and text to guide you in setting up your home theater system while calibration and equalization is both easy and accurate with the included newly designed and powerful EzSet/EQ II calibration system.