STRDH590 5.2 Channel Surround Sound Home Theater Receiver: 4K HDR AV Receiver with Bluetooth,Black

I bought mine Dec,19th 2019 for $187.43. It's now Feb '26 . At that price I honestly did not expect it to last this long without any issues especially with the performance I have gotten out of it. I have a franken system with Polk book shelf speakers as surround, 20 year old Wharfdale fronts, cruthchfield center and subwoofer which died so I replaced it with a Rockville then replaced the amp on the dead sub. This unit has two rca sub jacks (not sure why exactly since sub is mono) so now I use both for a 5.2 setup. Subs have their own power supply so I am not drawing much power from the Sony to crank them. It's a basic unit with no real equalization, just presets which work fine and you can setup each speaker individually. For the price and being the lowest tier (it is 5.1 only). The sound stays pretty crisp at high volume, really couldn't ask for better at this end of the market.

UPDATE: I love this thing. Upgrade from four to five stars! Once you get used to the features, the remote is simplex - a definite improvement over the ancient device and remote it replaced. Updated review comments: - Basic remote use is a one-button press ON for FM, TV, or Bluetooth (which pairs easily). - Angle and range of the remote are awesome (for me at least). - Front panel display is very readable, and the light level is adjustable to several presets to OFF. - The manual onboard volume control is micro-adjustable; no "move it a tiny bit and too loud." - Easy access to digital process presets (Stadium, Concert, Jazz, etc.), and they are "just enough." - Sound quality is exactly what I hoped for. It perfectly drives my two (really old) KEF Carina 2 speakers and two (really old) satellite Radio Shack Optimus Pro X44AV. - A simple, old-school Pyle speaker selector switch (purchased via Amazon) easily accommodates front/satellite speaker switching/combining (as there is no second set of speaker OUTs on the Sony). Nonetheless, the Sony receiver drives them both pairs of speakers as hoped -- no worries. - I can accept that there is no AM on this thing. Truth be known, about the only time I've ever used AM has been in weather emergency situations, looking for someplace - any place - to get info. However, I now have a spiffy Midland battery/solar/hand-cranked AM/FM/NOAA Weather radio (via Amazon) for that. So, no AM on the Sony is not a deal breaker. INITIAL REVIEW: My 26-year-old Sony AV Receiver was intermittently shutting down and displaying "PROTECTION." I opened it up, blew out a ton of dust, examined and found no bulging capacitors, re-assembled - and it worked flawlessly - for about 6 months. Bought this low/mid-range one to replace the old one. It works, however there are things I like and dislike: PRO: • Despite the complex possibilities of set-up and calibration with the included microphone, it was truly just plug-and-play. • The Display is clear, sufficiently bright, and easily customizable. • The remote is much smaller, more intuitive, and less complex than the old one. • Printed user manual - cool. CON: • Sony's approach (still) is to handle a lot of (almost all?) the adjustments for you. For example, no simple tone controls. "Just leave the sausage making up to us, and we'll provide the only pre-sets you'll really need." • If you were to brave following all the set-up directions in the user manual, you should first get a degree in signal path, gain structure, and network configuration. • There is no AM tuner - just FM. I get it. Fancy-ish home AV systems rarely, or never dial-up AM stations. • No B channel speaker outputs! My old receiver accommodated two main sets of speakers: "A" speakers were 5.1 plus sub for the big room, and "B" speakers were a simple L/R for another set of speakers (ours are wired, in the kitchen). To solve this missing feature, I've ordered a simple manual Pyle A/B switch (actually A/B/C/D) to take the output of the receiver and have the option of playing just A, B, or both A and B (like the old unit had built-in). About that A, no B thing: None of the Sony AV Receivers I researched from base model to those costing thousands, have outputs for a B set of speakers. None. If I missed one, would love to know about it. Also, all my speakers are 8 Ω, so if this doubling-up on load via the Pyle switch yields impedance woes, I'll update this review.

I took a half star off because of the dumb fm antenna wire on this. I did not pay attention to the fm antenna connection when I purchased this. I listen to the radio early in the morning and I should not have to grab my phone to bluetooth a radio station even though it works extremely well. Even the higher end Sony models have this type of antenna. Luckily it sits close enough to a window that I laid the wire flat on the windowsill.Picks up the station I usually listen to ok...45 miles away. This not a entry level receiver..it is a budget entry level receiver. Randy the cheapaudioman on youtube gave this a do not buy recommendation.I recommend that you get this at or slightly above the black friday price. Well I am new to a/v receivers so it was quite the learning curve. I just about took this thing out to the garage and took a sledgehammer to it.But I finally got it to work right for me. Took a while.I plugged my roku ultra 4800x into this and did the setup which was easy. Read the instruction manual. And I think you should learn the amp menu also. There are setting in there that are NOT on the on screen settings. This receiver plays good stereo content from my turntable,radio and dvd player. I stream content to my tv and I could not get all 5 speakers to work with 2.0 content from the streaming services I use. 5.1 worked.I paid good money for my speakers and not being able to use all of them for 2.0 content was a dealbreaker for me. I have Polk elite signature 20s for the mains..polk xt35 for the center and polk xt15s for the surrounds. I finally figured it out. You have to enable audio passthrough on the roku to get all five speakers to play for 2.0 content. On top of that every time I pressed the roku power button everything comes on like it should. Except the roku wanted to change the setting to auto hdr on every power up.My tv is not capable of doing GOOD hdr so I do not use it. The fix is to go into the roku HDMI SECRET MENU and enable/disable automatic recovery at the bottom right of screen. I hope this helps somebody. My apple tv 4k did not do this but I put it on a different tv because apple does not have the weather channel streaming app nor does it have passthough audio. I call it APPLE SOUND. This receiver does not have any clear voice or clear dialogue tech in it. So I have to turn up the center for some content and turn it back down for music. Also I am not a fan of the loud sound effects in some 5.1 content.Night mode works,but what I use is the dynamic compression setting....only selectable through the amp menu....off...auto...on. Its under hdmi in the amp menu. It only comes on for 5.1 content...there is a indicator light. There is no instructions on how to do this in the manual! For me to get acceptable 5.1 sound from this I enabled dynamic compression...bumped rear speaker up a little..lowered my mains a little and raised the center a little for dialogue. What a hassle and learning curve this was. For what I paid....black friday price it was worth it. That is why I gave it 5 stars. Will be looking a DENON S660H receiver next black friday..lol.That is a entry level receiver.You also will need a subwoofer for this. I actually finally got this to sound both pretty good for both tv and music. Also 2 channel surround sound mode is nice...good job SONY. Other brands of receivers have clear voice settings....dynamic compression and other settings all available in the on screen menu. But I got this thing figured out finally..most people do not have the time to horse around with something like this. I hope this helps somebody out. I just got an A in home theater school..lol.Have a good day!

Watched Dune on HBO. I was in a movie theater. The receiver handled the sound output to some large speakers I inherited. (I don't know the wattage.) I set up the system quickly, the wires for the speakers were easy to connect tightly. The sound from the unit is very good. Once I got to the back pages of the manual I found all of the sound effects. I had been watching a football game and could barely hear the announcers. A few sound effect changes later I was in the stadium. I really like the movie sound effect for watching movies of course but also for drama. The four stars are for problems with communicating between the TV and the receiver over HDMI. It's still a problem. I want to turn off the TV and have the receiver turn off too. I does, some of the time. Usually it works but occasionally I have to power cycle the the TV. (Samsung QLED) Before I found the back pages to tell me to turn on the HDMI communication, I'd have to unplug the TV. I talked to the TV service tech and they said it was 'signal confusion' and recommended I use the fibre sound system. The other problem is occasionally when I switch from cable TV to the apps (Netflix, Prime, Hulu, etc.) on the TV the receiver doesn't always switch to the sound from the TV rather than the cable TV system. (I've got a TiVo). Instead I've got Netflix on the screen and sound from a TV channel on the speakers. Other times I can turn off the TV but have the sound continue. It's still a work in progress. Annoying in the receiver screen waiting for input as to whether I'm WATCH, GAME, or MUSIC, or other options. Selecting WATCH I get a list of inputs. The only one I have on the receiver is TV/Sat but it wants me to select it before it'll go away. You know, it could be smarter that that or maybe it's me that's not smart enough and the answer is somewhere in the back pages of the manual. RTFM.

This receiver has so many issues. It will ONLY give video from the media box HDMI out to the tv. the BD/DVD and GAME outputs do not work. I have checked and double checked and triple checked the connections. I have even bought new HDMI cables to test it. There is zero picture from either out to the TV and the correct input to the Tv is selected for the video. The receiver and all devices have a brand new 4k cable connecting them to the receiver and a brand new 4K cable connected to the HDMI out for the tv. Nothing. Only the media box/Apple TV gives a picture/ I have swapped the HDMIs into different ports in the back and set the receiver to those inputs with the Blu-ray or PlayStation connected to those ports with still no picture. I had taken out my OLD Sony soundbar with three HDMI inputs on it and had no issue with any device I have connected to this receiver. I have eliminated each possible issue step by step and by process of elimination it is only the receiver itself that is left being the issue. It is simple to connect these things. The devices literally plug into the HDMI port labelled for the device. But no, it does not work. Do not buy this. I am returning it and getting a different brand and I am done with Sony now. And last thing, who puts a Speakers On/Off button directly over the power button? When you are already aggravated from being on the floor behind your console ten times then the button to turn off the speakers will flick them off with a breath's touch it is even more aggravating. Do not buy, do not buy, do not buy this model. Period.

Love it. so easy to setup and fine tune. Doing so manually is so fast, and totally dialable. One reviewer said it had a problem dealing with "DCP," streaming in other words. Zero such issues here, and my internet speed is only average. This replaces a Demon 7.2. Hated it--great sound but poorly constructed, needlessly a pain-in-the-ass, and slow to boot-up.

A high quality modern receiver for a good price. I assume because of 2025 "things" the price has increased for new, the used market is still very reasonable. It includes all the normal nice things you'd want of a receiver, but here's the things that stand out to me: 1. Plug it into an ARC or eARC HDMI plug on your TV, and you can do all the setup on the screen. This includes the surround sound calibration. This also makes doing other activities like bluetooth setup much easier. 2. No PHONO input. If you have a record player, use an amp. That will give you better sound anyway, but just a heads up. I plugged my phono amp into SA/CD 3. The main LEFT / RIGHT speakers are the screw-style connectors, while the center and rear speakers are the "stick in the hole and let it get pinched" style. Two sub ports, the nature of subs means its non-directional anyway but lets you put two in different locations if you wish. 4. The integration with eARC is very convenient, at least on my TV. I have a Samsung TV and it recognized the input and took control of it, and now when the TV turns on or off, so does the receiver, and the audio is also managed right there. This is nice since you can leave it set to the receiver for audio and have the convenience of a soundbar but the improved sound quality of discrete speakers & surround. It only has the stated surround capabilities, not A/B or different speaker routing. That's fine, I've never had a need for the more complicated passive speaker routing. Because of that, the panel is smaller and the receiver itself is also smaller. I really appreciated the reduced size since it helps keep the heat down and fits more easily in my stand. Very pleased.

great quality i have had this for awhile it works great, easy to connect, functions perfectly, easy to use, easy to adjust if needed. i have this connected to an 86” tv with surround sound and apple tv and a game system and it is truly amazing! would highly recommend...