Not much of an update on last year's VSX-933, but this seven-channel receiver's performance and features weigh up well against its price tag.

Bought this to use in my area of the house after setting up a VSX-LX503 with the main tv surround system. They are both great and on super sakes right now. They thought of everything in their designs and audio quality is superb for music and the less demanding lower fidelity movie audio.

It has been 20 years since I purchased a new Pioneer A/V receiver. I had to read the operating manual a couple times and google some of the words in the manual. Sort of like switching from a flip phone to a smart phone. Now that I've used it for a few weeks I love.

This unit failed right out of the box. Pioneer support was ok, however the device is DOA! DO NOT BUY!

I cannot believe that in this day and age, Pioneer makes a $500 AV receiver that distributes dialogue (voice) across the center, left front, and right front speakers. I downloaded the latest firmware. I trialed every possible setting variation in the owner's manual.

Replaced my approximately 7 year old VSX 822k with this (thunder storm blew the HDMI card), and while I wasn’t expecting this to be wildly better, I’m extremely happy so far. I only have this on a 2.1 setup, as I primarily only use it for music and TV, but so far my impression of the sound quality...