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This is a good simple system. Sound and volume are excellent. FF and REW functions are very weak. Main problems are in design: the remote is difficult to use, the unit's display is unreadable. Overall, an excellent value.

I don't know what the first guy was thinking when he wrote this, but I will tell you that you should always believe the phrase.. You get what you pay for.. I am a BIG movie buff. I collect movies for a livimg, and spend a lot of time at home with a theatre system set up. My first system I built myself and it wasn't top of the line by any means, but it was decent enough to put out some decent sound. Finally my speakers gave, and a particular woman in my life decided to replace them and take the system for herself. This is the system I bought to replace it, and I couldn't be happier. It puts out massive amounts of sound, easy to set up, nice progressive scan capabilities, and the sub does enough thumping for anyone living in a house or apartment! Its 650 Watts rattles my windows at low volumes, and provides true 5.1 surround sound for what it is. If you nit pick of each speaker and need to fine tune everything, Id get a different system. but if you're just setting something up to get a nice decent sound, and something that rocks hard when you bump it up, this is the system, and a great price for it too. P.S. make sure you get the speaker stands that mount to the BACK of the speaker, not the bottom, as the sony speakers are flat on the bottom, but there is a screw hole in the back for mounting..

I installed one of these last night. The controls are terrible for adjusting volume for each channel. Totally confusing and stupid. Buy extra cable, or splice together like I had to do with extra length left over from the front speaker. I bought this without demoing it based on the word of the CC sales chick that it was a good system, comparable to one that was at the store, but out of stock.

Bottom line - do not buy one of these without fully trying it out. Ask the sales person to show you how the controls work for controlling each speaker. This thing is absolutely horrible in that dept.

Also, no bass adjustment. Only presets for various sound - Jazz, Rock, news, sports etc. Something found on cheap boom boxes.

I don't know what the 5 stars are next to this thing with no reviews.

I would not reccomend this to a friend, but its too late for me as I'm sorta stuck with it because I installed the thing before trying it out.

Go to the store and demo. Don't buy something as important as this without trying it out.

I love Sony products, but this system is somewhat sucky.