$229.95

Description

Designed to compliment your new flat HDTV's slim design and small footprint, entertainment still reaches cinematic proportions, right out of the box. This Pioneer 5.1-Channel Home Theater System comes with 600 impressive watts of total system power as well as eight advanced surround modes designed to intensify your movie, music, TV, sports and gaming experience. Equipped with built-in DTS, Dolby Digital, and Dolby Pro Logic II decoders, this home theater system surrounds you in sound so big, so full, and so detailed that you just may forget you're in the living room.It's not just for movies, either. Three digital inputs built into the subwoofer let you connect your big system to all manners of sources - without the need for a separate receiver. Just plug-and-play your DVD player, CD player, gaming console, even portable audio devices. And with Pioneer's exclusive Sound Retriever, even compressed portable audio files like MP3s come across in surround-sound richness. Enjoy your high-definition TV, movies and music the way they were truly meant to be heard. Even your favorite radio stations get a big audio boost, with 30 FM/AM presets for your multi-channel listening pleasure.The ultimate home theater is yours to experience, at the press of a button. The Auto Multi-Channel Acoustic Calibration System (MCACC) makes is easy to create the ideal acoustic environment, for any room. MCACC automatically evaluates the acoustic signature of a listening space, and then fine-tunes the sonic performance of all connected speakers. So you can experience soundtracks and music the way the sound engineer intended you to. All you have to do is sit back and enjoy.

Features

• 600 Watts Total Power
• Room Calibration - Auto MCACC with Microphone
• Two Bass Modes - Music and Cinema
• 30 AM/FM Pre-set stations
• Easy Connection

review from about.com

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The Bottom Line
The Pioneer HTS-260 5.1 Channel Home Theater System is a compact home theater-in-a-box system that delivers more than you would expect. Despite its dimminutive speakers and modest amplifier, the HTS-260 delivers a pleasing sound for music and movies. The 260 does not have the sonic subtleties, sustained high power output, or flexibility that would put it in league with mid- and high-end systems, but is a system to consider for smaller spaces, such as a bedroom, dorm room, apartment, or office.

Pros

* Basic home theater sytem with good sound quality
* Easy setup and operation
* Color coded connection cables
* Innovative separation of amplifier and system display and control unit.
* Versatile Surround Sound listening options

Cons

* Subwoofer a little boomy
* No video inputs/outputs on Receiver - No Onscreen Display
* Only one set of Stereo analog audio inputs.
* Cheap Speaker Wire
* DVD Player not included

Review:

The Pioneer HTS-260 is a 5.1 channel home theater-in-a-box system, with 5 compact satellite speakers, an AV receiver/subwoofer combination, and separate LED display unit.
However, the AV receiver section lacks video connections, which would have made it a more flexible central control unit to use with HDTVs and progressive scan DVD players.

One innovation, the separate LED display, allows the heavier, and boxier, amplifier section to be combined in the subwoofer cabinet, allowing the LED display and control unit to be placed in a smaller space and away from the rest of the system.

The HTS-260 also has a variety of useful listening modes, including an expansion mode that widens the surround field and a sound retrieval mode that eliminates much of the compression artifacts present in MP3 and WMA encoded CDs.

As far as audio performance, the sound samples I used from DVD, Blu-ray, HD-DVD, and CD discs sounded good from such a small and low-powered system.

However, the highs were a little harsh, the subwoofer wasn't tight enough on the lowest frequencies, and subtle transient details got lost in some of the DVD samples; but the overall sound was good for a $349 home theater system in a 12x13 foot room.

Despite its modest rated power output and small satellite speakers, the HTS-260 is a good performer for a compact system. The Pioneer HTS-260 delivers more than you might expect.

Keeping in mind its entry-level status, I give the HTS-260 a rating of 4 out of 5 Stars.



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