RSSSherwood R-872 HDMI Receiver Reviewed
- By: Jerry Del Colliano,
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Sherwood makes no secret that they make receivers and electronics for many other AV companies and, with this level of economies of scale, their own house brand of receivers are quite good, especially for the price. At $1,199, the Sherwood R-872 HDMI 1.3 receiver comes loaded to the gills with all of the coolest features any Blu-ray-boasting surround sound freak would ever want. Interested in HDMI switching? This $1,200 receiver has four HDMI inputs and one HDMI output. Want Dolby TrueHD and or DTS Master Audio pulsing through your 7.1 speakers system? The Sherwood R-872 can do them both, as well as just about every other legacy surround sound format you have on any shiny disc in your library. The internal DACs in the Sherwood can boost your audio to 24/192 resolutions. There is an internal Faroudja video processor that can scale some of your legacy video formats to higher resolutions, matching the native resolution of your HDTV.
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High Points
• For a shade under $1,200, the idea that you can get this many cutting edge features in one component is just absurd. I guess there are advantages for Sherwood in making everyone else's products, because when you buy a receiver from them, you get everything and the kitchen sink for a very fair price.
• There are 24-bit 192 kHz in internal digital to analog converters on all channels to give you that audiophile sound when inputting a signal that needs it.
• The video up-conversion is better than you might expect from a $1,200 receiver and is likely much better than any scaling you get from your HDTV.
Read The Low Points and Conclusion on Page 2
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I used to be a high end dealer back in the 80's so I think I have "some" credibility. In simple, layman's terms, Sherwoods Newcastle receivers are the best kept secret in audio/hi-fi. One of best ISO 9000 manufacturing facilities for electronics is in Korea, called "Inkel" and on the web www.inkel.com. They are owned by Sherwood and they manufacture many brands of hi-fi equipment. The big difference here is two-fold: 1) Sherwood buys direct; all the others have to pay Sherwood to make their products AND 2) Sherwoods equipment is designed by American EE's (engineers) not foreign engineers. Look at all the exceptionally high end electronic products and you see almost exclusively American and English engineers designing product...and that's it! So, with Sherwood you get up front 1) a superbly "built" product from a top notch factory, 2) you get a lot more for the dollar because there's no "middle" manufacturer, and 3) you get great audio engineering/circuit design. I've had (in my retirement) one of their units and knock on wood not one, single problem of any kind in perhaps five years. Sherwood's dealer base isn't what it should be because it is, in fact, one of the best kept secrets in Audio.
Hopefully, once the word gets out, that will change! But you can still get product and at a good discount. Happy Hunting!
Update: Their 972 receiver (new top of the line) will be out in hopefully in April. Info's available on their website.
I agree that Sherwood is a WELL KEPT secret.
They make MANY other company's receivers and preamps and those are companies that get RAVE reviews from all of the press including here at HomeTheaterReview.com.
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