OK, couple of hours and my first impression!
Very unintuitive design/layout (****ing stupid actually), no mute on the front of the amp, and no obvious way to select the other hidden HDMIs either on the amp front or remote. Who thought of that? Idiots. To get one of the hidden HDMIs (once you've MANUALLY added it (ie turned it on as it's "EXTRA")) press the "
Q" button on the remote then ok the input. Even though I've relabelled everything the original consigned name still appears there until you scroll then the new name appears on the right. Again, which idiot designed that? Headache inducing.
Had to turn my PC on to read the manual too as they only throw in a quick start.
Apart from all that it's defo a nice bit of kit but it's going to be a bit of a nightmare selecting stuff and the display disappears after a few seconds too -hardly user friendly but no surprise for such a badly conceived product. Again, the "
Q" button (press it twice) brings up the amp display. I don't know why it's so difficult to have a display errr...
display stuff. Why can't I turn the time out off?
It gets VERY hot (never had an amp get to this sort of heat within such a short period). Remote control has frozen 7 or 8 times in 2 hours and the "home" button simply does not work on occasion.
Very handy that it upscales my old LD/VHS players. Getting all that (and 8 HDMIs) in a 1 box solution is great!
Still, for the spec I give it 9/10 and 1/10 for design. I'd not recommend this amp to anyone who just wants a simple device either.