Pioneer SC-LX85

Powerful, precise multichannel sound; excellent LAN music streaming; AirPlay; THX Ultra2 Plus post-processing

Clunky Wi-Fi adaptor; media support from USB not as comprehensive as across a network

Advanced network audio capabilities ; Apple AirPlay compatibility

Not exactly cheap ; No integrated Wi-Fi

Our brief hands-on session at IFA with the Pioneer SC-LX85 has left us salivating for more. Pioneer has taken what made the original SC-LX83 so great and spread it liberally with Apple-flavoured jam. The result looks ridiculously tasty.

Beautifully engineered and lavishly equipped, Pioneer’s SC-LX85 is a lust-worthy new member of the AV elite. I suspect niceties such as AirPlay and network streaming will have long time enthusiasts pondering an upgrade, while it’s audio performance...

video presentation is astonishing ; surround sound is the best I have heard ; playback of flac files and cd is really rich and detailed ; If you love film and music then you'll love this receiver

It is huge ; It is expensive but deals are out there

Stunning picture and sound

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excellent sound and facilities

needs an Aux input or 2, for those of us fortunate to have a lot of equipment that is not digital

Excellent sound and vision quality, packed full of features, solid build quality and mighty powerful! Once this receiver is set up, it is a joy to use, well worth the money I paid for it

Instruction manual is very in depth and a little disjointed, you will need a day really to read through this in detail and go through the set up, if like me you have upgraded from a plug and play off the shelf system ; Other than that, brilliant piece...

Attractive ; Sound quality is excellent ; Power output excellent ; iPhone interface simple and very good ; Multizone features. Able to set up 3 zones with out the need of additional amplifiers. (This reduces main zone to 5 speakers, however I find this...

Quite large and heavy

sound is very good

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sound; image quality

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