Sony TA-AN1000 7.2 Channel 8K A/V Amplifier

I had a pioneer AV receiver previously, that was 15 years old and showing signs of age. I had a Sony many years ago and it served me very well, so thought id try Sony again. The Sony TA-AN1000. I've only had a this amplifier a few days. But noticed vast improvements and upgrades. The sound is so much better. The set up was easy once I updated the amp and connected the WIFI. I wanted to future proof in purchasing this amp. I am only using 5.1 at the moment. But im looking to advance to 7.1 soon. It has many audio settings. Which is a refreshing change. Its early days, but I highly recommend this amp to anyone who appreciates good sound and knows how to set up a system. Highly recommended.

Awesome amplifier for use with my 4k bluray player and 4k firestick. Word of warning, make sure you plug the mic all the way in when performing the setup and calibration. I had not plugged it in properly at the start and the calibration kept failing. Sounds amazing once setup.

I've been a onkyo user of years but when I found the sony ta-an1000 I was very impressed with the whole thing, it is compatible with all my devices and easy to set-up with so many functions and sound features which is easily understood and controlled by a perfect remote control, with a nice feeling volume control button and it looks good, I can't believe how lucky I was to get it at such a great price

Overall I like this - setup was easy using a laser measure and the supplied calibration microphone. Sound is very good (considering the cost) - I'm using it in a 5.1 set-up. The zones feature I love, I can feed an HDMI to another room, and watch a different HDMI inpu there. I can also feed the second output to my HDMI encoder, and use the Zone 3 phono outputs to supply the required stereo audio to it. The Spatial 360 audio setting is very nice,it really fills the room up. The niggles are: 1. The IR receiver is very poor - you really have to point the remote right at it (my old Denon was much more responsive) 2. The web control interface doesn't work for me - you can see it but selecting any option (including the remote control feature) fails, with the message "unable to change settings". 3. When using the Zone 2 output, the HDMI control doesn't work, so the TV remote can't then change volume. This is especially annoying as the amplifier IR receiver is so poor. I've orderd an IR repeater which I hope will improve the IR performance. I'm pleased with this in general, but there are a few things not quite right (and I am on the latest firmware).

After a shaky start involving a failing HDMI port, I'm reasonably happy with this unit. It boasts plenty of features and, to my ear, is tonally pleasing with it's delivery of both movies and music, and is a doddle to set up. If you like to fiddle a bit with base and treble (a poo poo for purists but not for me), that's easy too. I also find it's minimalist styling pleasing on the eye but, face it, most are these days for the simple reason lots of folks make purchases as much based on looks as performance. It's also reassuringly heavy. Not overly so but enough to make you think you've spent a reasonable amount of hard earned on it but nowhere near say the Pioneer SC LX range. I've seen criticism of the bluetooth streaming quality but, personally, I've found it perfectly acceptable once you get over the audio snobbery thing and, let's be honest, is anyone paying for Tidal and the lieke ever going to be happy with bluetooth? I think not.. Picture quality is good too, even with pass thru which can sometimes be a mute point with AV amps. I use an Amazon Echo cube for my viewing (although not for music) and find the results more than acceptable. A major selling point with this unit is you "gets a lot of bang for your buck" (or, in my case, pound). Especially now it's available for considerably less than 700 quid, this is a really good player. that punches above it's weight The What Hi Fi review is perhaps a bit too much of a sickly love affair and, remember reviews are as much subjective as they are objective, but I don't think for one moment this Sony will disappoint the average mid price buyer. You'd have to spend a lot more to get better elsewhere.

Lives up to all the reviews.

These amps produce great sound and especially impressive surround effects in 360sm mode - deserving five stars. However, I've had two of them and both have been faulty, so I can't give them more than one star as they are useless in this regard. Both units suffered from a horrific metallic clang when powering on. The first unit had a very noticeable high pitched whine and hiss, particularly in 360sm mode, but this vanished after a few days (possibly a firmware update?). After a couple of months it went into an endless power boot loop for no reason and was returned to Amazon for repair. After a month of "waiting for a part" I lost patience and got a refund instead. The second unit produced the same clang on power up and whine/hiss especially in 360sm mode. This time the whine/hiss did not disappear after nearly a month of use. I did the obvious things of checking for a software update and performing a factory reset, but to no avail, and so it was returned. I did notice that the whine/hiss only appeared after the unit had gone through its auto calibration routine, which to me confirms that the fault is within the unit and has nothing to do with external equipment, cabling etc. A quick search shows several other people reporting exactly the same problems, so these seems to be generic faults in this model. I hope Sony addresses these issues, as at some point I would love to have one of these amps.

This is my second Sony av system, my last one which is still working perfectly but was lacking the new 4k/8k upgrades and more hdmi ports on this newer version which has amazing clarity and so easy to use and set up

Biggest POS ever. I'm on a AVR purchase quest. This one shuts down for no reason. TV, Bluetooth no reason. Junk