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The HT-X250 is Samsung's latest 5.1 surround home theatre system offering. Much like the last home theatre system we reviewed here from them, the receiver has a design that is truly unique to Samsung products.

 
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To start at the receiver, as the pictures show, this isn't your standard component shape! Rather, this alien-looking device can be operated standing vertically, or the stand can be moved and it can operate horizontally to fit onto a more standard sized component shelf. This is a step up over the last unit we reviewed here which left me disappointed when it's receiver was only vertical with no option to fit it onto a standard component shelf under my TV!

The receiver houses a rather mighty 600 Watt power amp which provides power to all 5 tweeters and the subwoofer. Although there are many more powerful systems on the market, 600W should be more than enough for any standard home theatre! All the outputs are colour-coded plugs; although this is nice for ease of setup, it is unfortunately a little harder to use aftermarket cables to get extra length between the speakers.

When standing up, the black front you see actually houses a blue LED display behind it. This is the very same style of display that we just saw on the recently reviewed SCX-4500 MFP; although much larger on this reciver! It's certainly very eye-catching in a world where we're used to the alarm clock style of LED display on most devices. However, because of the location of this display when you run the receiver sitting in the horizontal mode, the display is actually on the top! Making it impossible to see if it's is tucked away on a component shelf.