Sherwood RD-6500

The Sherwood RD-6500 could be considered the perfect stereo receiver - that also does surround sound but only having access to composite video makes it obsolete for video before you even get it home.

Finding a budget A/V receiver is always a tough challenge. You inevitably wind up compromising to keep within the budget market. For those looking for a truly low-priced A/V receiver, you must be willing to decide which company has made the compromises...

If you can pick this up for 50 bux or so you've gotten a pretty good deal.

I read many reviews complaing that this thing runs hot, but mine does not get very warm at all. Maybee they are stacking things on top of the unit, or maybee they are not using good enough speeker cable, or maybee they are using the wrong kind of...

Dont turn the volume up very high.

The designers probably shouldn't have bothered putting in the video connections at all instead of the half-hearted implementation they did do.

I bought this a looong time ago on sale at Circuit City. It has been a trully reliable and excellent Receiver. Its perfect for hooking up to your X-Fi soundcard with its 6 channel direct input. It's optical and coax digital inputs are great if you have...

I bought this a looong time ago on sale at Circuit City. It has been a trully reliable and excellent Receiver. Its perfect for hooking up to your X-Fi soundcard with its 6 channel direct input. It's optical and coax digital inputs are great if you have...

Not using it in a sophisticated manner. DVD & Digital Cable feed directly into my 42" Sharp HDTV. From TV out to the receiver T'm running a digital optical cable. Just using a Sony 3 speaker setup. Left-Center-Right. Am very happy with the results at a...

Used this for over a year on my HT system. I used mostly the 6 ch direct input (from computer), and the TOSLINK optical input (from DVD). Does not do the newer Dolby and DTS stuff that comes with HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. As long you want a good start...