There are lots of annoyances in the world. All the way from having your least favourite political party gain office all the way down to getting a pebble stuck in your shoe. But my HT receiver, an HK AVR500, has an annoyance that goes way beyond any of those. I mean, this is a top-quality, 100% Certified “True Annoyance”.

The receiver does not remember my OSD setting. I know! It’s awful! So if I’m watching a DVD and see “DD 5.1″ or “Volume -32″ in nice white letters on my display, I can turn that off by hitting he OSD button on my remote. But the next time I turn on the receiver, it’s back! There’s no way to turn this off permanently! And this is why I’ll never buy another HK receiver again, because I’m pretty sure they haven’t fixed this problem. (Please correct me if I’m wrong.) I know it sounds like a little thing. But when you’re CONSTANTLY going into the AMP menu of your remote to fix the stupid OSD, it gets to be a bit much.

What’s annoying about your receiver or pre-processor? Maybe we can put all these annoyances in one post, and manufacturers will take note and actually fix these things. And by “annoyance” I don’t mean things like missing features that are available in higher end models, or things like that. I mean operational annoyances that the manufacturer should have fixed.

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