This is one off the best budget amplifier out there,the performance is incredible,you get a setup mic and the yapo automatic soun setup,will take care of everything for you,but many will say ,its better to setup manualy for the best performance,and i have to agre with that,after i did automatic setup te sound was bright and the bass was lacking,so i had to reset it to deafoult and set uo manualy,and after that wow,thats alli can say,great sound with both music and mainly movies.i bought some wharfadale 9hcp with this amp sounds great,but you have to set up correctly,playng with eq and otherr functions,the hdmi pass thru is great no loss of picture quality and since is hdmi ver 1.3 it can decode the audio including the newest formats(dolby truehd,dtshd master audio ),for this amount of money you can't get better,trust me.unless something new comes out.