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Highlights
Quality
Im not a complete audiophile but i am stringent about sound quality the tx8160 more than exceeds my bar level
Sound quality through a pair of large advent speakers is great
I sent it back for a replacement and noticed the same problem with the second unit
Now having messed around with the receiver to try to cast music over dlna the network function no longer works
Packaging/appearance
The control knobs are very thin and flimsy plastic which worried me when i took it out of the box
I have a slight scratch on the face i saw it when i pulled it out of the box but i needed to hook it up
Competitiveness
They have a dpad that funtcions as the next button but its not as cleanintuitive as the classic buttons
Over the past half century ive been a hifi aficionado buying and upgrading stereo systems many times with all sorts of exotic h... Read More
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great, good, radio, quality and through. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
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- Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 139 reviews as of our last analysis date on Aug 4 2021.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
We have a comcast modemnetwork and setup was easy although the ui was a bit unintuitive and took me about 30 mins to figure out wifi connection reason for 4 stars
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Having internet radio and online services like pandora built in is a nice feature but theres a downside setup is a little tedious to get connected to our wifi network and tuning to an internet service is not instant like tuning in broadcast radio
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Finally a stereo receiver that has all modern connectivity and a reasonably good android app that controls it all via wifi
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The audio players can recognize the receiver but casting audio files fails
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
However i still can not find a way to cast over dlna once i cast from spotify unless i restart the receiver
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I would have to say that i was really hoping this would be the complete receiver package between digital and analog music but unfortunately it falls short on one feature and that is the phono input
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This is where the amp sounds terrible
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Unfortunately the phono stage is not good at all
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