Sony STRDH590 5.2 Channel Surround Sound Home Thea
$348.00
Price: $348.00
(as of Feb 21, 2025 14:32:29 UTC – Details)
Upgrade your home entertainment system to work with the latest 4K TVs and HDR picture. Equipped with 4 HDMI inputs, HDCP 2.2 signal handling, and a host of advanced features the DH590 is the perfect combination of high performance video capability and superb Sonic fidelity. High-Resolution Audio compatible.
Cinematic Sound at Home: Enjoy your favorite movies, TV shows and more with theater like sound in the comfort of your home.NOTE: Scroll down the catalog to find installation Manual and User Guide for trouble shooting steps..Frequency band : 2.4 GHz band
Virtual Front Surround: S Force PRO delivers virtual surround sound with only a 2 speaker setup
4K Pass Through: 4K HDR Compatible with Hdcp 2.2 Support for Sharper Source to Screen Image Quality
SMART CONNECTIVITY: Stream music and use Bluetooth Standby to turn on the receiver from your phone
Multi Functional System: Enjoy a Multi Channel Stereo Setup, Fm Radio Tuner and 1/4 Inches Headphone Jack
Dynamic Setup: 4 Stereo Rca Audio Inputs and 2 Digital Audio Outputs (1 Optical and 1 Coaxial)
SPECS: 5.2 ch, 725W, 6 ohm, 1KHz, THD 0.9 percent AV receiver with 4 in/1 out HDMI and Audio Return Channel
In the Box: Foldable Headphone, Carry Case, Charging Cable and Audio Cable for a Wired Connection
Power Requirement: AC 120V 60Hz, AC 230V 50Hz
CompuGeak –
Qality Home Receiver
Great system, very clear sound and powerful amplification for typical home.if you have older speakers, please read the technical specification on SONY web site before you buy. System requires active (powered) subwoofer, as many other premium sound machines. If your subwoofer is passive, your system does nothing in this channel. I end up buying $35 amplifier for my passive subwoofer, it worked very well, system seen it without problems.Configuration is very simple, time that is needed to unpack, connect and simple configuration is less than 20 minutes without subwoofer channel. However, if you include subwoofer, and you entertain adjustment of each surround channel accordingly to your needs you might need another several attempts to get exactly where and what you hear. If you peculiar about sound it might require even more time to get it as you please.The Bluetooth works flawlessly, transformation of surrounding sound from 2 channels is excellent.My TV remote turns simultaneously on and of both of the TV and this SONNY receiver. Most (but not all) configuration screens of the receiver can output to the TV unit, remaining functions show on panel of receiver, with – I would say – “engineering interface”. Manual is OK, but it is not obvious on where details are.My ranking: Sound: ***** Connectivity ***** Interface: ****
Joseph D. –
Solid budget receiver
This is a solid entry level receiver. Setup is easy and produces quality sound at all volume levels. Would recommend.
Craig –
Actually I give it 4.5 stars
I took a half star off because of the dumb fm antenna wire on this. I did not pay attention to the fm antenna connection when I purchased this. I listen to the radio early in the morning and I should not have to grab my phone to bluetooth a radio station even though it works extremely well. Even the higher end Sony models have this type of antenna. Luckily it sits close enough to a window that I laid the wire flat on the windowsill.Picks up the station I usually listen to ok…45 miles away. This not a entry level receiver..it is a budget entry level receiver. Randy the cheapaudioman on youtube gave this a do not buy recommendation.I recommend that you get this at or slightly above the black friday price. Well I am new to a/v receivers so it was quite the learning curve. I just about took this thing out to the garage and took a sledgehammer to it.But I finally got it to work right for me. Took a while.I plugged my roku ultra 4800x into this and did the setup which was easy. Read the instruction manual. And I think you should learn the amp menu also. There are setting in there that are NOT on the on screen settings. This receiver plays good stereo content from my turntable,radio and dvd player. I stream content to my tv and I could not get all 5 speakers to work with 2.0 content from the streaming services I use. 5.1 worked.I paid good money for my speakers and not being able to use all of them for 2.0 content was a dealbreaker for me. I have Polk elite signature 20s for the mains..polk xt35 for the center and polk xt15s for the surrounds. I finally figured it out. You have to enable audio passthrough on the roku to get all five speakers to play for 2.0 content. On top of that every time I pressed the roku power button everything comes on like it should. Except the roku wanted to change the setting to auto hdr on every power up.My tv is not capable of doing GOOD hdr so I do not use it. The fix is to go into the roku HDMI SECRET MENU and enable/disable automatic recovery at the bottom right of screen. I hope this helps somebody. My apple tv 4k did not do this but I put it on a different tv because apple does not have the weather channel streaming app nor does it have passthough audio. I call it APPLE SOUND. This receiver does not have any clear voice or clear dialogue tech in it. So I have to turn up the center for some content and turn it back down for music. Also I am not a fan of the loud sound effects in some 5.1 content.Night mode works,but what I use is the dynamic compression setting….only selectable through the amp menu….off…auto…on. Its under hdmi in the amp menu. It only comes on for 5.1 content…there is a indicator light. There is no instructions on how to do this in the manual! For me to get acceptable 5.1 sound from this I enabled dynamic compression…bumped rear speaker up a little..lowered my mains a little and raised the center a little for dialogue. What a hassle and learning curve this was. For what I paid….black friday price it was worth it. That is why I gave it 5 stars. Will be looking a DENON S660H receiver next black friday..lol.That is a entry level receiver.You also will need a subwoofer for this. I actually finally got this to sound both pretty good for both tv and music. Also 2 channel surround sound mode is nice…good job SONY.Other brands of receivers have clear voice settings….dynamic compression and other settings all available in the on screen menu. But I got this thing figured out finally..most people do not have the time to horse around with something like this. I hope this helps somebody out. I just got an A in home theater school..lol.Have a good day!
WRPereira –
Good low cost receiver
Watched Dune on HBO. I was in a movie theater.The receiver handled the sound output to some large speakers I inherited. (I don’t know the wattage.)I set up the system quickly, the wires for the speakers were easy to connect tightly.The sound from the unit is very good. Once I got to the back pages of the manual I found all of the sound effects. I had been watching a football game and could barely hear the announcers. A few sound effect changes later I was in the stadium.I really like the movie sound effect for watching movies of course but also for drama.The four stars are for problems with communicating between the TV and the receiver over HDMI. It’s still a problem. I want to turn off the TV and have the receiver turn off too. I does, some of the time. Usually it works but occasionally I have to power cycle the the TV. (Samsung QLED) Before I found the back pages to tell me to turn on the HDMI communication, I’d have to unplug the TV. I talked to the TV service tech and they said it was ‘signal confusion’ and recommended I use the fibre sound system.The other problem is occasionally when I switch from cable TV to the apps (Netflix, Prime, Hulu, etc.) on the TV the receiver doesn’t always switch to the sound from the TV rather than the cable TV system. (I’ve got a TiVo). Instead I’ve got Netflix on the screen and sound from a TV channel on the speakers. Other times I can turn off the TV but have the sound continue.It’s still a work in progress.Annoying in the receiver screen waiting for input as to whether I’m WATCH, GAME, or MUSIC, or other options. Selecting WATCH I get a list of inputs. The only one I have on the receiver is TV/Sat but it wants me to select it before it’ll go away. You know, it could be smarter that that or maybe it’s me that’s not smart enough and the answer is somewhere in the back pages of the manual. RTFM.
aureliano lucas –
Aparelho supriu minhas espectativas sobre sistemas de som.
Hector Hdez E –
Me gustó mucho el amplificador, es de muy fácil uso, la calidad y potencia de audio es excepcional, garantía de la calidad de SONY.Conecté mi Televisión, Bluray, tornamesa, computadora, y con el plus del Bluetooth se conecta mi celular. TODOS funcionan excelente.
Mergatroid –
I was using a pretty good Pioneer receiver to pass my HDMI devices through to my TV. Unfortunately this receiver started freezing. The audio would work, but no selections would. Checking around the ‘net showed this would likely be a bad capacitor, and since this is at least an 8-year old receiver, I decided to replace it (no schematic, and lots of capacitors to replace).So, I bought a “renewed” (fancy word for refurbished) Pioneer through Amazon from a seller. That was a bad joke on me because this receiver didn’t work either. It would shut off a few seconds after being switched on (apparently this is a common fault with this model of Pioneer receiver). This is the second refurb I have gotten off of Amazon that didn’t work. I won’t try a third time. I checked online and found out that one Chinese company has purchased Onkyo, Denon and Pioneer. Considering all the problems Canada has been having with China lately and the fact that this supposedly refurbished receiver still didn’t work, I decided against purchasing another of these brands.I have an older 46″ Sony TV that is older than my old Pioneer receiver, and it still works perfectly. This convinced me to go with this Sony.Well, after reading the instructions (Gasp!) it was very easy to set up. It works perfectly with my old Polk Audio surround speakers and sub (5.1), and it sounds very good. I have only tried it on my cable box and the FM tuner, but the sound was every bit as good as the Pioneer was.Turn it on, set the language and time/date and the receiver goes into setup mode. You plug in a provided microphone and place it in the most common sitting position and it sets up the speakers for you. Sounds good, and only took a minute. Once done, everything was perfect. My old Logitech Harmony universal remote even had the the correct device so I didn’t have to manually set up every button on the remote (however, the categories for listening to music do not include using the Bluetooth input as an option for some reason, so to use Bluetooth I would have to use the remote that came with the receiver). Note that I have not tested Bluetooth yet.I think the price is comparable with what the Pioneer cost years ago, and hopefully it will last longer. It’s gotta be better quality than those brands that were bought out by China. That’s really too bad. The Pioneer brand used to be a very well respected brand.Overall, I am happy with this purchase, and I respect Sony as a brand name. I would say this receiver is worth the price I paid ($348.00).
Cliente de Amazon –
I like it. It works as intended, I keep discovering new features and ways to use it as I read the manuals more often and do some tests.It’s foot print is small compared to others, but be cautious about the height it says it has, because I believe the feets are not included in that height. I do love my new TV stand I bought to fit this as the other had 6″ but this supposed ≈5″ wouldn’t fit in. I would say it’s height with feet is about 6.25″ to 6.5″The Led display on the device could be bigger/larger imo but for what we need it’s good enough. The TV on-screen menu is easier to play with but the built-in display at least prevents to have to quit what you’re doing to go into the hdmi earc input use the on-screen display so I would say it’s good that we have both options even if the built-in can feel limited. At least the shortening of the options makes it obvious for most, and the online official manual on the sony website makes it easy to know what you’re tweaking and how to get there with a step by step guide.The only cons for me so far are that I feel that only 4 hdmi ins is a very small amount. A lot of us has an xbox, switch, ps5, pc and more to connect onto these things so 4 built-in hdmi in gets quickly filled to the max. At least we can use the unused tv hdmi inputs to fill in whats left which is good.The other con is there isn’t a pre-amp output for active speakers. Hopefully you already own passive speakers or else be ready to shell them extra $$$ like I ended up doing.The other con is the sound from hdmi inputs is loud, but from the TV it cam be quiet. Luckily there is a built-in TV DB offset which permits to add an extra 6db that helps a lot. I still felt the sound was quiet so I went into the AMP menu and found I can boost individual speakers in DB. I ended up boosting each by a few extra DBs to compensate and now it’s loud enough compared to the hdmi inputs. If you used the included calibration mic, I recommend to keep the differences in DB from each speakers. Example: I had the Fronts at 0 and the sub at -1.5 from the calibration, I boosted 4.5db the fronts and the sub went to 3 to keep that 1.5db in difference. This permits to keep the balanced sound the calibration did for us, while boosting extras to compensate for the weaker TV ouput.The other con which is unrelated to the receiver, damn there isn’t a lot of good 5.1 content out there. Seriously. In games, except hearing a few sounds from behind me from times to times, not much. In movies and series, only very rarely do I stumbled upon one that actually make use of the 5.1, most are stereo and that’s it. I’m still glad I have it, but I was expecting to get that good surround sound most of the time rather than only sometimes.All in all, I am satisfied. Truly. Everything it throwed at me could be fixed by simply knowing how to properly tweaked it and reading its very simple manual.Please be aware that the cons I faced might be because this is my first AV Receiver, but maybe my music studio experience helped me a lot to figure out how to properly tweak it to get the most of it in every situation i encountered so far.
LUIZ FERNANDO FELIX DOS SANTOS –
Atendeu minhas espectativas.Tive dois receivers pionner e os mesmo deram problemas no prazo de dois anos.Devido a isso optei pela Sony.A marca não decepciona em qualidade dos seus produtos.