I let my original review, the bottom line still stand below (since otherwise the comments out of context would be torn), the device will give but under the current conditions now 3 instead of 1 star. A star for the still weak-ALC implementation, which, as already said at the time, also quite clearly is not working as it lt it. Manual should (and this applies to all current Pioneers and all related manuals), must will of course be deducted as before. And for the fact that Pioneer annually brings a new iOS / Android app and the old versions no longer cares (so gets about the iOS app for the 2012 units of course no update with iPhone 5 - more support) requires, also still another star deduction, because that's in my mind still quite a no-go. This is repeated by the way, as expected in the model generation in 2013 - the apps are already available in the US AppStore and support course again no previous models. The justification for this on the part of Pioneer is still untenable, especially since no other manufacturer operates so.
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The Pioneer has, as indeed all other current and recent Pioneers, two unacceptable in my eyes software problems:
On the one hand there is a bug that causes after performing the Auto Setup menu when switching or selecting options "hooked". This manifests itself so that if, for example a menu item selects that you can switch on the right with the left /, and you then click once on the right, back the option every second and forth, as if you hold the button. The Haunting takes about 10 seconds. The whole happens in virtually every menu item, which is / right switchable with the left. The issue is addressed by a factory reset. I have seen this effect at three completely different Pioneer AVRs, including this one, so that a problem of an individual unit can be excluded. It amazes me that you can hardly find something about this problem on the network. Either, it simply noted hardly anyone, or the devices come with me after calibration due to some compatibility issue with my speakers (normal 5.1 set) out of step, because maybe some reading caused an overflow or WHATEVER. In this case the whole thing would then indeed no longer a problem that needs to interest the general public, but should something happen naturally anyway not. And as I said - it occurs to me on with totally different Pioneer AVRs; it must therefore be a common bug in the Pioneer firmwares, regardless of whether the now affects only in my constellation or not definitely.
The second problem is definitely a general nature. Like many other current AVRs, and the Pioneer has a function for automatic volume compensation (here called "ALC") which is intended to prevent, for example, commercials are louder than the program itself. Unlike all other AVR manufacturers Pioneer has this function but idiotically not implemented as a global option, you just simply turn on and off, but as a separate sound field. This has the consequence that you can not know how the usually does here at the TV sound playback, select Dolby PLII and ALC switches separately, but you have to select ALC instead of Dolby Pro Logic II. Even that was not so bad when the AVR would behave with activated ALC as it is described in the manual. There is namely a table format in which he claims that input signal with activated ALC. Lt. This table is a 2-channel Dolby Digital - will signal actually output as Dolby PLII. That would be just right, because if a TV station not exactly what sends in true 5.1 (which is then output with ALC incidentally correctly than 5.1 from Pioneer), then (ie stereo) is just a Dolby Digital 2.0 signal. This is just but unfortunately so not output as Dolby PLII, but only stereo, only the two front speakers. The ALC function is thus precisely for the purpose for which it is actually intended, namely to compensate for the different volume level of broadcasts from a television station, not to be used.
The fact that Pioneer each year for the new model generation rausbringt a new iPhone / Android App and the old versions no longer maintains, is for me then only one - albeit equally unacceptable - side note. Pioneer justified by the way, so that the new features of new devices can not be entered as easily in one and the same app. But then one wonders why there is such as Denon, Marantz, Onkyo or Sony only just an app that supports all previously released each networkable AVRs. Impossible seems therefore not to be.
Those who do not bother about all this gets a Pioneer AVR admittedly a device with a very good sound for the money. Since I am someone at the any sound through the AVR is running, I have with Pioneer's always the remote control in hand, to readjust the volume. This said function that is as I said in all the other AVR manufacturers implemented exactly as it makes sense, is here to stay for me. I therefore believe that all the Pioneers to a meaningful implementation of ALC basically unusable.