The simplicity of the look and the connectivity ports at the rear panel is eye catching and very user friendly. The round display at the front panel gave it a unique look. Overall aesthetics will be appreciated by all.
Technical aspects:
The Marantz SR5006 with 100Wx7.1 channel AV receiver comes with enough features, so that it can safely compete with other brands in this price range. It provides ample connectivity options with Six HDMI sources, two component video and three composite video inputs along with a USB and internet streaming (via the Ethernet port). Along with this, Apple's Airplay, support for all Apple products for streaming sound. Optionally one can use USB port and can purchase a Bluetooth adaptor that hooks up to the Marantz M Xport input. This receiver supports almost all the formats like, Dolby TrueHD to DTS HD master audio.Standard Dolby Pro Logic IIz and many other DSP presets are also there for rendering your two channel music to 7.1 or 5.1. As the display of the system is very small all controls are there through the OSD on you television screen. The SR5006 is also equipped with an Audyssey MultEQ-XT auto - setup method that can be applied with the help of the OSD. You have to use a microphone that comes along with the receiver, the SR5006 is smart enough to do acoustic calculations of your speaker setup and does all mathematics to make your entertainment system optimally tuned. The remote control is standard with lots of keys and buttons. Naturally buttons are smaller. Axis and range of response is not that great though.
User’s experience of Marantz SR5006 7.1 AV receiver:
Be it the action movies, or the husky dialogues or, you are playing games with your PS3 the sound is crisp and very realistic. SR 5006 in fact looks and acts in nearly the same way as its high end big brothers.
