Search these forums for Sony Receiver and you should find your answer is quite possibly yes. I have a STR-DE897 receiver. The 522 remote will control it's volume up,down,mute and power. But, there's a trick which I posted in another thread. You need to move the Sony receiver to AV1 IR mode from the factory set AV2 mode for the 522 to be able to talk to it. It's in the Sony users manual. At least this works on the 897.
-John