Highest Rated Review by the Community
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Dec 13 '02
Pros: Lots of very clean power, Great connectivity, Tape monitor, Clean appearance.
Cons: Complicated surround modes, poor sensing of digital and analog sources. Remote.
Summary: I was upgrading my home theater system and decided that I needed a better receiver than my 6 year old Kenwood (Dolby Prologic only) I wanted a receiver with ample power and lots of inputs for audio and video. I started looking at many different units ... read more
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Oct 20 '04
Pros: Sounds wonderful. Lots of inputs.
Cons: Inferior FM reception, no main preamp outputs, ungainly input (component) selector, no sleep timer.
Summary: I paid Shop Harmony $179.95 plus $19.95 shipping and handling for a refurbished SA-HE200 Panasonic home theater receiver. It arrived in just a few days, looking and performing exactly like a brand-new one from the factory. After all, the factory ... read more
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Aug 04 '04
Pros: Lots of inputs. Powerful. Clean design. Inexpensive. Panasonic reliability.
Cons: Sliding door on the remote. Runs warm. More detail needed in op guide
Summary: I replaced a Sony STR-DE675 with this receiver - and got an incredible price on this unit in September of 2003. The Panasonic SA-HE200 was being closed out at Circuit City - I picked up an open box display system on the shelf for $239. Has all the ... read more
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Apr 15 '04
Pros: Inputs-o-plenty; Phono input and Tape monitor; 130w per channel!
Cons: Annoying remote control slide cover; can't adjust bass and treble in surround mode
Summary: Pound for pound, you're not going to get a better receiver for the money. After I purchased the SA-HE200K, hooking everything up to it was very simple....everything from the banana plug connections to the optical inputs. The surround sound features ... read more
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Jul 28 '03
Pros: easy to use remote, more power, Dolby Digital Pro Logic and Surround are great
Cons: Speaker wire hookups are difficult,
Summary: This is my third home theater receiver and definitely the best one i have owned. I especially have t ... read more
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Jun 25 '03
Pros: Pristine sound.
Excellent channel separation.
Very attractive look (mine is silver).
Cons: Limited options to combine digital signal and DSP modes.
Summary: I am living with this receiver for a month now. I upgraded to 6.1 from Yamaha RX-V595a. I like its ... read more
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Nov 13 '02
Pros: Massive number of inputs, solid sound, very configurable, and inexpensive!
Cons: Overload sensitive, very remote dependent.
Summary: The HE200 is one of the higher end receivers made by Panasonic, and one model higher than the highly rated HE100 which is designed for a broader audience.
The basics of the HE-200 is that it provides 6.1 channels, with 130 watts for each ... read more
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Sep 27 '02
Pros: Easy set-up, banana plugs, great sound, high current, DTS ES/NEO/DD EX
Cons: Remote could be more solid, excellent functionality, but feels cheepish.
Summary: I spent a lot of time looking for my next reciever, I have always had Kenwood gear, and have been, for the most part very satisified.
My decision came down to 3 reciever's the Panasonic SA-HE200(the one i bought), the Kenwood VR6070, JVC 9010. All ... read more
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Sep 17 '02
Pros: Beautifully designed with clean controls layout. DD & DPL 2 are its best features.
Cons: Remote is poor & limited. DSP modes useless. Not enough power for movies.
Summary: I purchased one of these receiver when Sears Canada had a no GST(7% tax) sale plus someone in the store underpriced the unit by 40 Cd. dollars so all in all I saved about 90 dollars compare to the regular price. Since this is my very first DD receiver ... read more
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Sep 09 '02
Pros: Clean sound, easy front controls
Cons: Complicated combination of surround sound modes.
Summary: After spending a great deal of time and energy devoted to finding a quality replacement for my ultra-clean sounding Hitachi receiver, I finally stumbled upon the SA-HE200K. This thing instantly struck my fancy, and when I was able to purchase it locally ... read more
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Sep 01 '02
Pros: Great features, tons of inputs, surround sounds great, 2 switchable component video inputs
Cons: I don't know enough about AV receivers to know if it has "cons"
Summary: I did quite a bit of searching before deciding on this receiver, and I'm very happy with my purchase. Contrary to what is on the product info page here, this receiver has 4 digital optical ins and a digital coaxial in, and one digital optical out, as ... read more
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Aug 22 '07
Pros: Great Sound, has phono jack,
Cons: Runs hot - Cooling appears insufficient, Remote
Summary: Bought this unit 5 years ago. Went with the SA-HE200 because of reviews, had a phono jack, sounded good. Had great sound for that span. A previous reviewer stated that it runs warm and it does. We had to keep the door on the entertainment center open
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Aug 25 '06
Pros: Lots of power, cheap (under $300 on ebay), DTS-ES, DD-EX, NEO-6, Source Direct, Phono Input
Cons: Horrible Remote, No Mid Adjustment, No hi-low Adjustment in Surround, Hard to set up
Summary: Great receiver, I am running two of them powering Wharfedale, Infinity, and Advent speakers and it sounds amazing when using a graphic equalizer, and a decent DVD player or sound card. It has plenty enough power for a typical 15x15 living room (I hit
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Jan 24 '04
Pros: great quality and value
Cons: the remote is not very ergonomic
no ability to switch optical inputs from the remote
Summary: The SA-HE200 is a great home theatre receiver. I bought it over a year ago. The quality and value are outstanding! I'm using it to power a true 6.1 system for DVD, digital cable, and video games. The sound quality is great. No noise or distortion
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Nov 26 '03
Pros: 6.1 at an affordable price, amazing sound, lots of connectivity, sturdy
Cons: Instruction manual is unnesesarily complicated, no aux A/V output, thats about it
Summary: I've allways been a Panasonic fan but this is AMAZING. The cheapest similar featured amp I could find was well over doulbe the price of the SAHE-100 and when it came time to test it it PALED in comparrison to the SAHE-100. I've had it for about 5
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