Sony STR-DA7100ES: Bulldozing its Opponents

With the launch of STR-DA7100ES, Sony has maintained its impressive sequence of high quality receivers that started with the STR-DA5200ES (incidentally the company’s first A/V receiver to incorporate a true menu-driven graphical user interface (GUI) as well). This unique feature has contributed to the STR-DA5200ES earning a great deal of accolades. It has also given the device a kick start when compared to the more archaic models offered by the other companies, which still rely on looking onscreen displays with blocky white text and other such obsolete technologies.

The aesthetically designed unit is also replete with many a fearsome feature that allow it to deliver a devilish performance. Moreover, the set is prepared with the goal of enduring a lot of grinding and should come in handy for day-to-day use.

Taking a cue from its predecessor the STR-DA5200E, which is celebrated for its radical interface, the STR-DA5300ES is a hub of versatile features. The unit also pleasingly retains most of the remarkable features of its predecessor and has an amazing six HDMI inputs, far more than the Sony STR-DA 3400 ES has, for example. Then, the DA7100ES also includes the customary Dolby TrueHD, and DTS-HD Master Audio decoding features as well. Moreover, Sony has further refined the graphical user interface so that each HDMI input can be renamed.

he STR-DA5200E has also refurbished the video quality, and its upscaling capability from all analogue sources has been increased to 1080p.

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