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Date: 2010-05-05 onkyo rocks phenomenal product and an incredible value. everything you can want out of a 1000 dollar receiver at a fraction of a cost. very low distortion levels as well! Date: 2010-05-03 A serious receiver for a serious user If you need a receiver that is reliable and intuitive, this is the one for you and well worth it at around $400. If you've got a real home theater like me, you can't be messing around with settings and running cables between components over and over again in order to manipulate your receiver to doing what it should be doing. I was looking for something that was reliable and easy to use out of the box, and this is exactly what I got with this Onkyo. I have a very complex set up, as my receiver and AV equipment is in a separate room from my projector mounted on a ceiling 14' feet high. Because of the nature of my beast of a theater, I only have my projector displaying video from one HDMI source to keep it simple. I'm not about to start running more video sources to the projector since that involves major surgery of my house, and I needed a receiver that could handle complex switching of video sources to one and only one HDMI cable. I tried an inferior receiver, and was very disappointed with the results since that receiver could not reliably handle multiple video inputs. Sometimes the video came up, sometimes, it didn't. Many people might not demand a receiver handle ALL video and audio, since most can run some video to the TV itself, but as you can see, it's not that simple for my sort of set up and I needed the receiver to just work like it was supposed to work and pass all video through one single cable every single time. From my experience with this receiver, I have not had any issues with this unit being the brain of my theater, handling HDMI, component, and composite video sources and spitting out picture perfect quality video to my projector through a single cable and sound to my klipsch speakers. A very reliable and well built device which will serve you well. At $400, it's a great value, as it matches the performance of those twice as expensive. Date: 2010-05-01 Bad Experience with TX-SR606 I am not happy with the reliability of my Onkyo receiver. I purchased a TX-SR606 in Sept. 2008. The unit worked well for about a year, then started having problems switching between HDMI input sources. The problem is getting progressively worse. At this point it takes about 5 minutes for it to recognize the signal when switching HDMI input source. Date: 2010-05-01 Receiver malfunctioned after a few weeks I bought this receiver because it had all the features I was looking for, especially the HDMI pass through and upscaling. It was great for the first couple of weeks. However, it began putting red halos around all the dark areas on screen. I found that if I shut the unit down for awhile, the red outlines disappeared for about 45 minutes, but it would come back again right about in the middle of a movie. It was well ventilated, so I think there was a heat issue. This unit runs hot by design, but something was just wrong with mine. None of the troubleshooting steps helped and finally the Onkyo tech support guy recommended returning it. I returned it to Amazon within the last day of Amazon's deadline for returning the receiver. Amazon took it back, but charged me for the shipping and deducted the $84 promotion or sale price. I lost $100 bucks and at least a few hours of my time for the pleasure. I won't buy anything electronic like this from Amazon again just because I have so little control of the transaction. With the $100 bucks I lost, I could have gone to Fry's or Best Buy and gotten a better receiver and been even on my money. My rating may not reflect the brand or model as a whole, but mine was a dud. Date: 2010-04-28 Fantastic receiver at a great price I had to purchase a new receiver because my previous one, a Pioneer would intermittently lose the center channel dialogue on a digital signal. That was my 2nd Pioneer home theater receiver. The previous one also had issues with sound cutting out. You'd think that I'd learn after that and buy another manufacturers product. So this time I did my research on home theater receivers, not even considering Pioneers. For the price, the Onkyo seemed to be a hands down winner. The sound is incredible. It has lots of connection possiblities. Whether HDMI, Component etc. The manual is good, lots of information in there. The only thing that I wasn't too thrilled with in the beginning is that to do the programming on your TV, it has to be connected up with an HDMI cable. Without the cable, your programming is done with the display on the receiver. The manual says that. I unfortunately didn't have a TV with a HDMI connection. Once I hooked up the Epson projector with a HDMI cable, programming could be done on the screen. Much easier to do. The bottom line, this a a terrific receiver. I am thrilled with the sound that I get from it. It has been in service for a couple of months already and it's awesome. What are you waiting for, go buy it now. * Price is subject to change. |
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