Sony STR-DE597 Home Theater System in Palmyra, New York

The Sony STR-DE597 delivers six-channel home theater power and Dolby® Digital EX home theater thrills at a breakthrough price! This receiver teams up 90 watts x 6 with an advanced 32-bit processor to bring all your home entertainment options to thrilling, three-dimensional life -- enjoy your movies, your TV shows, your music, and even your video games in dynamic 6.1-channel surround sound!
In addition to Dolby Digital EX decoding, you get a wealth of other surround processing options, including DTS-ES®, DTS Neo:6, and Dolby Pro Logic® II. Sony's exclusive Digital Cinema Sound? modes, exclusive soundfields based on acoustic measurements made at actual Sony movie production stages, let you add even more cinematic ambience.
The 'DE597 also offers plenty of digital and analog inputs to build a great A/V system. It's even got component video switching for two sources, with 80MHz bandwidth for immaculate transfer of HDTV signals. The A/V remote gives you easy control of this receiver and other Sony components. Two sets of main speaker outputs let you power stereo speakers in two rooms simultaneously.
?90 watts x 6 into 8 ohms (20-20,000 Hz) at 0.09% THD
?Dolby Digital EX, DTS-ES, DTS Neo:6 and Pro Logic II processing
?Digital Cinema Sound modes
?32-bit processor
?component video switching: 2 in, 1 out (80MHz bandwidth)
?digital inputs: 2 optical, 1 coaxial
?2 audio, 3 A/V inputs
?5.1-channel input for SACD or DVD-Audio
?no phono input
?A/V remote
?2 sets of main speaker outputs
?30 AM/FM presets
?16-7/8"W x 6-1/8"H x 12-7/8"D