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Are you interested in high end quality home entertainment? The Sony dav fx900w is on my top list for home entertainment. Sony has been bringing great electronics out for years and I’m sure they don’t plan on producing lemons now – my favorite Sony product is the Sega from back in the day but the Sony dav fx900w comes in at a close second!

I really like to have a love of all things fashionable. These speakers give you a nice sleek look to go along with the rest of your living room or den. You can easily enjoy your viewing experience without any bulky speakers. This system has a great many features as well as being stylish and you can use it with wireless or wired speakers. I love the look of the tallboy speakers – these tallboys can be wall mounted,HDMI output with 720p/108oi upscaling. The speakers are automatically calibrated and there is also a front panel input for portable audio players. You can use XM with your system as well as enjoying a five-disc changer that plays CDs,SACDs and DVDs.

While these speakers are a great choice there are a couple of things that are not the best with this system. Things such asthe disc charger – the disc changer is slot loaded and might appeal to my sense of style but it also slows things down a little bit and my ability to wait rivals my want of sleek style. The remote for the dav fx900w is also a little sketchy and you don’t have any direct control over your subwoofer volume. That’s no fun. Another thing that surprised me about this system is it’s lack of ability to control the bass and tremble. Every system that I have ever experienced has allowed me to adjust these settings but hey,what do I know?

There are usually pros and cons with everything but the only thing you as a consumer have to worry about is your needs. If you have no need or want to adjust the subwoofer volume or control the bass and tremble then the cons are not really going to come into play when you are considering buying the sony dav fx900w. The time delay on the load times are not too bad either – when tested the changer  requires almost 20 seconds to start playing a CD, 30 seconds to change discs, and 8 seconds to eject a disc. This may not be the right system for an impatient person. lol

One happy person had this to say about the system :

59 of 60 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great System for the Price, October 4, 2006

I had just purchased the Samsung HL-S4666W 46″ DLP HDTV and I felt I needed a surround sound system to go with it. However, I didn’ have thousands to spend, and I needed to get a progressive scan DVD player too. This system answered all my problems at once.

The set-up took about 1-2 hours (mostly just putting the speaker stands together, which are made of metal not cheap plastic). It was probably just as long to actually figure out how everything works. The manual has everything in it; however, it isn’t in any logical order.

PROS:
-over 1000W of power
-”wireless” rear speakers w/separate amp (If you step in the way the connection is broken, but it goes back on within a second of walking out of the way)
-HDMI output & optical audio input (plus component, RCA, etc, etc)
-Auto-Calibration mic (I thought it worked pretty accurately, it tells you the distances that it thinks the speakers are from the mic, and they were dead-on in my case)

CONS:
-DVD turntable EXTREMELY slow (I was aware of this before I bought it, and I think most people can deal with it)
-DVD insertion is sort of sketchy (It doesn’t tell you when to push the DVD into the slot, you just have to hold it there and hope it sucks it in. I find the easiest way is to “eject” the empty slot and then push the disc in right after the word “eject” comes off the lcd, I’ve looked all over the manual and haven’t found a clear explanation of what I’m doing wrong)
-DVD FF/RW only has 2 speeds (really stupid)

Overall I love this system. I hooked up my PS2 with RCA audio to the receiver and started playing “Guitar Hero”, and the sound was great. I’ve also thoroughly enjoyed watching concerts I have on DVD (Audioslave, Offspring, The Police, Depeche Mode, etc.). They all sound excellent. I have a DirecTV receiver, with the optical connection. It’s great watching sporting events and such with this system.

I’m not a professional speaker guy by any means, but for what I use this system for, it sounds great. The DVD player is excellent barring its minor setbacks. On my TV the movies look great through the HDMI cable.

All in all, great starter system with everything included.

EDIT: Now that I’ve had this thing for a few months, I have a bit more to add. I think there should have been more inputs included with this item. I have a DirecTV box, a PS2, and a record player, and I can’t hook up all 3 at the same time. There are a plethora of input types on the back, which is really nice so you can practically hook anything up, but only two things at the same time. Other than that its a great system. It has plenty of power, and I love cranking it up and listening whether it is NFL football or music CDs. ” source – amazon.com

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