Quote Originally Posted by Mr Peabody
Sony is terribly over rated, over priced, and not very reliable. .
I've never purchased a major Sony product (TV, receiver, anything bigger than a Walkman) because I always thought you were paying too much for the name. Plus, they like to be different way too often (such as the "memory stick" that's not compatible with any other digital camera, the betamax, etc.) That's really why I started this thread - to ask about the Sony receivers.

I guess I could even ask about speakers, but really it's just a matter of taste, I suppose. I picked up some Bose 901's, and a nice pair of Polk Audio RTA 8T's.

I'm comparing them to my main speakers, which are an old pair of Speakerlab 4 speakers that probably nobody has ever heard of unless you grew up in Seattle. The Polk's sound similar to the Speakerlab's. The Bose 901's sound like crap without their equalizer hooked up.