TA-AN1000 7.2 Channel 8K A/V Amplifier

After a shaky start involving a failing HDMI port, I'm reasonably happy with this unit. It boasts plenty of features and, to my ear, is tonally pleasing with it's delivery of both movies and music, and is a doddle to set up. If you like to fiddle a bit with base and treble (a poo poo for purists but not for me), that's easy too. I also find it's minimalist styling pleasing on the eye but, face it, most are these days for the simple reason lots of folks make purchases as much based on looks as performance. It's also reassuringly heavy. Not overly so but enough to make you think you've spent a reasonable amount of hard earned on it but nowhere near say the Pioneer SC LX range. I've seen criticism of the bluetooth streaming quality but, personally, I've found it perfectly acceptable once you get over the audio snobbery thing and, let's be honest, is anyone paying for Tidal and the lieke ever going to be happy with bluetooth? I think not.. Picture quality is good too, even with pass thru which can sometimes be a mute point with AV amps. I use an Amazon Echo cube for my viewing (although not for music) and find the results more than acceptable. A major selling point with this unit is you "gets a lot of bang for your buck" (or, in my case, pound). Especially now it's available for considerably less than 700 quid, this is a really good player. that punches above it's weight The What Hi Fi review is perhaps a bit too much of a sickly love affair and, remember reviews are as much subjective as they are objective, but I don't think for one moment this Sony will disappoint the average mid price buyer. You'd have to spend a lot more to get better elsewhere.

I had a pioneer AV receiver previously, that was 15 years old and showing signs of age. I had a Sony many years ago and it served me very well, so thought id try Sony again. The Sony TA-AN1000. I've only had a this amplifier a few days. But noticed vast improvements and upgrades. The sound is so much better. The set up was easy once I updated the amp and connected the WIFI. I wanted to future proof in purchasing this amp. I am only using 5.1 at the moment. But im looking to advance to 7.1 soon. It has many audio settings. Which is a refreshing change. Its early days, but I highly recommend this amp to anyone who appreciates good sound and knows how to set up a system. Highly recommended.

Awesome amplifier for use with my 4k bluray player and 4k firestick. Word of warning, make sure you plug the mic all the way in when performing the setup and calibration. I had not plugged it in properly at the start and the calibration kept failing. Sounds amazing once setup.

I had an Onkyo atmos enabled AV previously. Very solid bit of kit. However, I have a Sony Bravia TV with the speakers behind the screen. I thought, after reading reviews, this looks great and allows me to make the TV the centre speaker. It works fine as a sound system. But I find it quite buggy in general use. Just little things like sometimes the TV doesn't activate as the centre speaker - so I have to turn things off an on again to re-engage. I get sound drop outs when watching 4k/Atmos/Vision stuff on Netflix...which is very annoying. Just a second or two, but it's something that should happen. My guess is it's e-arc related - but my cable is 8k HDMI...so should be able to handle the bandwidth. It makes a really loud bang noise when waking up or going into stand-by. I don't know who product tested this, but if someone heard this bang and thought 'yep, this is approved', then they should consider a career change. It's not worth full price (around £1000). I preferred my old Onkyo and that was only a few hundred quid. The only major benefit is the TV as the centre speaker. The AFD is fairly clever - but not worth the extra money. The auto calibration was well off too.

These amps produce great sound and especially impressive surround effects in 360sm mode - deserving five stars. However, I've had two of them and both have been faulty, so I can't give them more than one star as they are useless in this regard. Both units suffered from a horrific metallic clang when powering on. The first unit had a very noticeable high pitched whine and hiss, particularly in 360sm mode, but this vanished after a few days (possibly a firmware update?). After a couple of months it went into an endless power boot loop for no reason and was returned to Amazon for repair. After a month of "waiting for a part" I lost patience and got a refund instead. The second unit produced the same clang on power up and whine/hiss especially in 360sm mode. This time the whine/hiss did not disappear after nearly a month of use. I did the obvious things of checking for a software update and performing a factory reset, but to no avail, and so it was returned. I did notice that the whine/hiss only appeared after the unit had gone through its auto calibration routine, which to me confirms that the fault is within the unit and has nothing to do with external equipment, cabling etc. A quick search shows several other people reporting exactly the same problems, so these seems to be generic faults in this model. I hope Sony addresses these issues, as at some point I would love to have one of these amps.

I've been a onkyo user of years but when I found the sony ta-an1000 I was very impressed with the whole thing, it is compatible with all my devices and easy to set-up with so many functions and sound features which is easily understood and controlled by a perfect remote control, with a nice feeling volume control button and it looks good, I can't believe how lucky I was to get it at such a great price

i got this to up grade my sony 1080. very easy to setup and im superproof myself for somtime now , links well with my oled tv too and can use one remote to do everything and switch sound modes are now on the tv settings so no need to go on the interface of the av receiver only when setting up .

Perfect for my Sony bravia and Playstation

Biggest POS ever. I'm on a AVR purchase quest. This one shuts down for no reason. TV, Bluetooth no reason. Junk