Wow, all I have to say is ONKYO, I would rather listen to absolutley nothing than some pile of crap sony product. Every single sony product I have ever had has been a huge pile crap.Its all garbage. They are so worthless, I won't even have a sony prduct in my house. The clarity their receiers puts out is a joke. Its so muffled. The bass is pathetic, its so loose sounding. Its one big note, no seperation or anything. Their speakers, have a sound of their own, i'm not even sure how to describe them. Every single sony product sounds different, even if it is the same model. Its a joke. In the ways of TV's have you ever heard of Panasonic,(which happened to win best tv picture of the year), Uhh lets see here there cd players? Ok the readers are lik records. Every time you use the piece of crap the reader gets worse and the already terrible quality goes down a little bit more if thats possible. Their portable cd players wow G shock umm a test showed that ever g-shock was different 3 min 2min 30 seconds or in some rare cases 5 min which they claim. B&K would blow sony out of the water any day. I can't even compare Onkyo to Sony because Onkyo is just so much better. Hey pal here is a couple of words for you Onkyo Txsds 989 Ver 2?? what, yes that is an upgradable receiver that is at least 500000000 times better than any sony product. Yeah way to go japanesse sound! I'm not surprised that reefer boys receiver burst into flames. Because when you start putting crappy power supplies in your receivers like using pi shaped rc filter like sony, rather than using the 7805 of even a zener full wave bridge for that matter. Lets talk about there pathetic undersize chasis. They don't dissapate heat at all and all the transistors tend to over heat. They rattle more than anything on your wall could. The only good a sony receiver is good for is a step stool, for your kids to brush their teeth on in the bathroom sink.I give them credit though, for being the biggest joke ever, I look at there receivers and luagh, its funny, its just funny. The reason sony's stuff is cheaper than onkyo is because of there cheap parts like there power supplies and there undersized capacitors. Hey what about the sony minidisc can you tell me how that did. Ohh wait as i recall it went absoluly no where. Hey sony viao computers Sweet......