So far so good...............
Pros:
Great value ,detailed midrange , lots of power.
Cons:
Memory storage in tuner doesn't work very well.
The Bottom Line:
If you are looking for basic stereo with no frills , reasonably priced, this is a good buy.
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Author's Review
I bought it about a week ago at Radio Shack. The price, of course, caught my eye first. My first integrated amp, when I was a college kid , was a Sherwood . It was an old vacuum tube set , not much power - but astonishingly clean sound.
I bought it to replace a fifty watt per channel RCA receiver I've had for several years. I have three pairs of speakers , Klipsh Kg2's , Boston Acoustic A150's, and a pair of 40 year old Allied Electronic eight inch three-ways. They are wired in series. With the RCA receiver I had an ADC five band graphic equalizer - which my wife was finding inconvenient to use, what with it not having a remote. And I wanted more power . I work at a church , surrounded by professional grade audio equipment and live music all day long.
I bought a couple spools of Monster Cable and rewired my speakers when I hooked up the Sherwood.
There is a dramatic improvement in sound. More detail, more clarity, plenty of solid bass. We played a DVD of LOTR Return of the King - the part where Smeagol gets the ring and the soundtrack gets all ominous and rumble-ly - it used to break up a bit and now it doesn't.
Rock and country music sound great , classical O.K.. Gospel music, with huge fifty voice choirs sounds fantastic. I am hearing details in the midrange I didn't before.
The high end is a little weak , but not that bad.
I no longer need the equaliser , what with an adequate amount of power.
Storing radio stations in the memory proved awkward and confusing- or maybe I did too many drugs in the seventies.....
No phono input , but it gave me the motivation to dump my vinyl and turntable , which I've used maybe twice in the last fifteen years anyway.
Overall,a great value.
