I bought an incredibly well reviewed Onkyo tape deck in 1979. Honestly it looked good and sounded terrible. I replaced it with an ancient 1972 Nakamichi deck that sounded an order of magnitude better. Since then every exposure has solidified that Onkyo produces terrible sounding products with lots of buttons.
As an executive at Sharp for nearly 20 years I can assure you it as good match… nice looking poorly performing “branded” product.