Sony STR-DA3000 ES 150wpc x 7 for $599!!

[Buckeyefan 1]

Wow, almost as good as the Marantz deal!

www.jr.com/JRProductPage.process?Product=3713691

Just to recap:

www.ubid.com/actn/opn/getpage.asp?AuctionId=10373206

 

[Takeereasy]

I think Ubid should send you a thank you letter. You've probably moved about half those units out the door by yourself.

 

[Buckeyefan 1]

I think Ubid should send you a thank you letter. You've probably moved about half those units out the door by yourself.

I should get a commission, dammit. There are 616 bids, and the min. bid is still only $330. I honestly think about 5 guys here actually took advantage of that deal. Most of us already have a nice surround receiver. You found a nice deal on Athenas. When I find stuff like that, I like to post it. I don't mean to drive up the price. It's just there are some guys here than can spot deals, and they should all chime in when they can. None of us get paid to post here, but if we can save some members a few bucks, what the heck, right?

 

[Leprkon]

Did they ever get rid of the quality issues on the X000ES series ? As many bad things as were being written back in November about the ES series, I don't know if this is worth the risk. Most of what I read stated you were better off getting a budget-line STDR series than an ES.

Is there any chance this is somebody dumping what's left of the original problem-child batch ?

 

[Buckeyefan 1]

Did they ever get rid of the quality issues on the X000ES series ? As many bad things as were being written back in November about the ES series, I don't know if this is worth the risk. Most of what I read stated you were better off getting a budget-line STDR series than an ES.

Is there any chance this is somebody dumping what's left of the original problem-child batch ?

Leprkon,

Can you repost the issues with the Sonys? I was unaware of the problems. I had read some reveiws on them at least a year ago and thought they were pretty solid. Thanks for the heads up!

 

[Leprkon]

there was a fairly massive recall on at least the 2000 and 3000 series right at the end of the year.

most people were very unhappy with the quality of the speaker posts.

some discussed the remote being very difficult to read and progam and mentioned a single coax digital input (maybe on the lower models only ??).

none of the lower models will do 4 ohm speakers.

here's a pretty good site to look over the whole she-bang.

http://www.agoraquest.com/viewforum.php?forum=51

 

[todda1]

I own a DA-2000 ES, and I personally would say to stay away.

I've owned mine for less than 2 years and it was great in the begining. Since getting the receiver, I had a set of Energy Veritas, go in the shop twice. The last time it took me about 2 months to get the speakers back, so I was reluctant to hook them up w/o tracing the problem.

The speakers are never driven hard and the receiver never clipped. Just out of curiosity, I got out the multi-meter and took some readings at the receiver's speaker outputs. These were simple resitance value tests.... all channels were fine, except one; approx 3 points different from what the rest of the outputs showed.

I took the receiver to a local dealer and did the same test that I had performed at home; white noise and same volume output. Sure enough I had a bad front channel, but the internal protection never tripped to protect the speakers. Sadly enough, the reciever that I tested in the store had a rear channel that was out of wack!

My receiver has been in Sony's hands for the past month and a half, waiting on parts.

-Todd