Buy Sony DAVS500 Home Theater SystemSony DAVS500 Home Theater System Product Description:
- Home theater DVD system with six speakers
- Plays DVD movie, CD audio, CD-R/RW, and SACD discs
- 280 watts total system power
- Full digital amplifier; AM/FM receiver with 30 presets
- Dolby Digital, DTS, and Dolby Pro Logic output
Product Description
This sleek system features five sonically matched speakers and a powered subwoofer, all of which work together to bring your movies to life right in your home. The receiver/DVD player is the brains of the operation and can even play high-resolution SACD discs. Brains, beauty, and brawn--what's not to love?
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful.
Great Mid-level Unit With Outstanding Sound & Quality!
By TReno
This is great sounding system. If you have a large living room installation, it isn't right for you, however. Get the next system up from Sony with the powered sub-woofer. That said, if you are going to be using this system in an average size den or entertainment room (like, say 12'x15' or 15'x15') or bedroom, it is perfect!
The system has worked flawlessly for me. Installation was the easiest I have ever done, thanks to Sony's making all connections color-coded. The remote is easy to use and the DVD player has presented no problems. I had a speaker that didn't sound right to me, I call Sony Support, and they sent me a replacement speaker and a call tag for the suspect one, all by next day air!!
21 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
Awesome Sound!!!!
By D S
This home theater really makes you feel like you're in the real movie theater, only without having to leave the house! The Dolby 5.1 sound rumbled through the whole house (even got the dog excited). You'll need to pick up extra cables to hook it up to your satellite system or VCR, and if you have both, get splitters to hook up the TV's audio out to go through the DVD as well (there are only enough ins & outs for two components). Also, if you are mounting your speakers, you'll need two pairs of mounting brackets. The only reason I rated this a 4 instead of 5 was the extra running around I had to do to get the cables and ordering the brackets. Otherwise the system itself sounds great!!
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Highly Overrated
By Steve C
1. To call the remote control unit finicky would be an understatement of note. The buttons are extremely poorly arranged and many are almost too small to press. Furthermore, the buttons are slow to respond requiring a second or third press (you may think you are pressing a button but in fact unless pressed extremely hard, your key-press is not being registered by the unit). Considering that 90 - 100 % of the time the unit will most likely be operated via remote, this is a major drawback and is reason alone to give this system a miss. The range (when used at angles) at which the unit will accept infra-red signal from the remote is also the poorest I have experienced in a remote-controlled appliance.
2. The audio has exceptional clarity with very low levels of distortion but the DVD audio is flat, empty and lacks volume. There is virtually no way to distinguish between the many sound fields which can be selected as they all sound very much the same. In fact the DVD audio on this system could be termed a complete failure. The system fails to deliver a surround sound effect on any settings irrespective of the speaker system layout out and setup being 100% correct. The DVD audio has none of the rich, full cinema sound found in comparable systems.
3. DVD operational features are missing. There is no zoom feature on this system which should be standard on DVD systems. Also, the back/forward scan has only two speeds. The first speed is too slow and the second is too fast to move to the required scene.
4. Upon closing the DVD tray after watching the third DVD, the front panel on the tray came loose. Further inspection showed that this wedge was stuck on with a form of double-sided adhesive tape. This is unacceptable build quality on the part of SONY which I have never before experienced with home entertainment equipment.
At this point I returned the system for a refund.
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