Sherwood RD-8601 6.1-Channel Home Theater Receiver with Dolby Digital and DTS Decoding
- 100 Watts per channel x 2 in Stereo Mode with less than 0.9% THD, 40 Hz-20 kHz, 6 Ohms / 100 Watts x 5 in Surround Mode
- Outputs for DTS Dolby Digital / Dolby Pro Logic II (Movie, Music, Custom and Matrix)
- 2 Coaxial and 1 Optical Digital Inputs
- 3 DSP Modes
- Subwoofer Preamp Output
Product Description
With most audio brands, you’d expect to pay a lot of money for a “flagship”, top-of-the-line receiver. In fact, it’s possible to spend upwards of $5, 000 to get the best receiver some brands have to offer.Sherwood is not playing that game. For less than one-tenth that amount it offer the Sherwood RD-8601. It decodes all of Hollywood’s latest movie formats including DTS-ES (both Discrete and Matrix) and Dolby Digital EX. It has fully adjustable Dolby Pro Logic IIx to turn broadcast TV, VHS tapes and even 2-channel CD’s into 6 channel magic; Dolby Headphone for amazing private surround listening and Dolby Virtual Speaker to reproduce full surround effects from only 2 speakers.With six 100 watt per channel, high current, discrete amplifiers on board, sound quality for the 8601 is superb. So is ease of use. The RD-8601 not only has switching for 3 audio/video source units, 3 for audio only and 2 for high-def signals, it is one of the few receivers in the world… More >>
Sherwood RD-8601 6.1-Channel Home Theater Receiver with Dolby Digital and DTS Decoding
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2 comments
Mina Caliente on February 2, 2010 at 1:25 am
Love the product, will buy Sherwood again. Great price from Amazon and shipping service was fast!
Lawrence Kish on February 2, 2010 at 2:15 am
I just set this unit up there are a few things that are different than the description, one being that there are 2 optical digital inputs and 1 Coaxial digital input and there is 1 digital optical output and 1 Coaxial digital output. That’s fine with me as I would rather have more digital optical inputs if you actually could read the back of the unit in the picture you would see that I am correct. Setting the surround sound feature with the mic is awesome, I love this gadget. The only real issue that I have is that the unit I received does not have the Sherwood name anywhere on the product/ box or manual what it does say is QG-500AVR SLS I did find that the QG stood for quick gold but not sure about the rest as of yet I am still researching it. The remote was made for someone who works for Nasa but I was able to figure out the things that I needed to use, I still have a ton to learn about the remote. I did hook up the unit and it was very easy and has great sound, but I only use the optical inputs so I don’t know the sound of the rest of the inputs. I only have 5 speakers and one sub set up so I can only use the 5.1 speakers but I have another speaker on the way so that I can hook it up to use the 6.1, when I do I will update my review again.
*********UPDATE*********
Here is the responce that I got from the company on the Name not being Sherwood:
Thank you for your Amazon order.
This SLS branded receiver is a Sherwood RD-8601 receiver, it is rebranded with an SLS name. It is exactly the same as Sherwood RD-8601 except for the logo.
SLS is a high end audio company who contracted Sherwood to build these receivers for them to sell as a home theater package. You can see this home theater package here : [...] LineHomeTheater
We have no control over the pic on Amazon, it is just a listing, our listing does state that this is a rebranded receiver. We have sold hundreds and all our customers are very happy with the quality, especially seeing the low price they paid.
Let us know if you need additional assistance, we will be happy to help.
Best regards,
The Av Express Sales Team
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I am still very happy with this product it has great sound and does a great job with Blueray and digital TV.