Actually, it's nonsense, zweckzuentfremden a video AV receiver for it, but the price and the range of functions of the receiver to speak but then another language ..
Reason to buy:
Internet radio and listening to music from my central disks on your home network. I was tired of always having to laboriously only turn on the hi-fi system, Internet radio as well, and then laborious standing select with the remote control in front of the Internet radio, the desired music sources.
When I saw that there is an Android app as a remote control for this receiver, still, that the receiver is the DLNA feature "Play to" support (music from another device to stream directly to the receiver without having the the receiver itself must adjust), this model was already as good as bought.
My Experiences:
All in all, I'm totally satisfied. Everything works even better than I had desired it to me.
Even the sound after switching to stereo operation outstanding - surely also because of the analog output stages.
In addition to the tens of thousands of radio stations that are presorted wonderfully by vtuner.com, I can now at super convenient way directly select mobile phones the music of my hard disks on the network (as a media server to come with me to use: 2 * Twonky on my Western Digital NAS drives, and even the Fritzbox internal media server).
Wonderful also that LastFM and AUPEO! are excellent support! (Spotify goes well, but I'm interested less). Important: LastFM and Spotify you benöigt premium accounts with the providers - Aupeo other hand works with the free version.
All of this comes before the school note 1.
But there is to complain about up some, but at very high levels. Overall, this then deteriorates at my school grade to 2.
a) When Internet Radio only the sender of the stream appears, but not the title and artist. My ancient Sagem500 has no problem. Hopefully this will be rectified with a future firmware update.
b) a DAB + chip in the receiver would be desirable
c) With respect to Internet Radio and Radio the operation is sometimes a bit confusing: Some things will only work with the device remote control (for example, love or banish title, or Internet radio stations Add to favorites), some things on the system only save (FM radio stations) , while others only on the Internet (the transmitter vTuner favorites list). Here are a few should be improved.
The things that one needs every day, but can be wonderfully remote control of mobile app.
d) Since the Android version 1.5, this point is omitted fortunately.
(Device is not access from the app only detected after 30 minutes, if you have previously called the frontend).
Addendum 1:
As with all AV receivers the power rating 5 * 130 watts is misleading. The power supply is too weak for this. With a power consumption of 400 watts nameplate can assume that one * 100 watts in stereo mode has a maximum of 2 - but this is quite enough for the Heimbegrauch.
Addendum 2:
Of course missing some things completely for use as HiFi Receiver:
a) a phono input
b) a Loudness button (increase bass and treble at low positions of the volume control to compensate for a corresponding character of the human ear), especially for stereo operation without subwoofer is quite useful.
