AnthonyS
Auditioning
- Joined
- Jul 13, 2002
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Well I got to A,B the new sony receivers today the 7ES and the 4 ES. I must tell you all that after reading the manual and Long Listening between the 4 and the 7 the only difference is the multi room the 2 way remote and 10 more watts :frowning: I can't say heard a diffrance in sound quality 10 Watts makes no difference maybe they use different AD converters at least I hope so. For a 1999.00 dollar receiver it should justify the price and it just dose not do it. We had B&W 802's hooked up for a while then we put Studio 100's and again the sound stage was ok not great.
By far the denon 4803 blew the doors off the Sony with a much more open sound stage and warmer sound. Now getting back to the 7ES and 4ES I would go with the 4ES due to the fact that the 7ES Sounded the same there were no difference's that we could tell. Well we thought mabey were brain dead lol so we brought in two more people (who both own Krell Systems ) for our *test* lol and they said the same thing they both sounded like 1000 dollar receivers :frowning: Sony is really sucking out with there so called Flagship Reciever line! If this is a flagship Reciver Line up it's sinking fast. Do yourself a favor and listen to both before you buy. also a point to make is there power supply is really week on both receivers I would not be surprised at all if they can not drive 8 Ohm speakers with all channels on at 100W.....
Now let me stress this again I am not saying they sounded bad BUT for the money of the 7ES you can go DENON and they do sound a lot better on EVERYTHING ! So go take a listen Im sure you will see what I mean ........
By far the denon 4803 blew the doors off the Sony with a much more open sound stage and warmer sound. Now getting back to the 7ES and 4ES I would go with the 4ES due to the fact that the 7ES Sounded the same there were no difference's that we could tell. Well we thought mabey were brain dead lol so we brought in two more people (who both own Krell Systems ) for our *test* lol and they said the same thing they both sounded like 1000 dollar receivers :frowning: Sony is really sucking out with there so called Flagship Reciever line! If this is a flagship Reciver Line up it's sinking fast. Do yourself a favor and listen to both before you buy. also a point to make is there power supply is really week on both receivers I would not be surprised at all if they can not drive 8 Ohm speakers with all channels on at 100W.....
Now let me stress this again I am not saying they sounded bad BUT for the money of the 7ES you can go DENON and they do sound a lot better on EVERYTHING ! So go take a listen Im sure you will see what I mean ........