There is a proverb that goes the more the merrier. It seems that Pioneer has taken a leaf out of this proverb and accordingly come up with the Elite VSX-94TXH A/V Receiver, which hosts an amazing array of features and options. The good thing about all these is that they represent an assembly of unusual, interesting, and downright useful functions that should allow you to derive the maximum benefit out of the device.

Another notable aspect of the unit is that though it is inundated with a number of out of the box features, the fundamental features are not made a scrape goat. Inclusion of features like four fully-functional HDMI 1.3a inputs with Faroudja DCDi upscaling, video cross-conversion, HDMI output, drives that point. Moreover, just like its cousin the Pioneer VSX-LX 51, the Elite VSX-94TXH is THX Select 2 certified, and has onboard Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio decoding technologies.

The analogue-to-HDMI conversion and upscaling feature is by far the receiver’s top rate features. Then theirs is the “Full-Band Phase Control” feature as well which effectively minimizes the group delay between the middle- and low-frequency ranges. There are also very few issues when it comes to the unit’s frequency and frequency domains. Meanwhile, the auto-EQ routines are quite sophisticated, but you will however curse the fact that the user interface is a tad bit obscure.

That is not all, as you can even connect the receiver’s serial port to your PC and use a Windows programme downloadable from Pioneer that will allow you to achieve better control and thereby generate graphs of the data collected by MCACC.