Hot? $599 for Onkyo's newest THX A/V Receiver

[huesmann]

And I'm sure the 1-ohm speakers are also in the thousands...

 

[Apex]

Originally posted by: huesmann
Oh, Chinese jun^H^H^H stuff.

LOL. Doesn't this forum have a COPPA agreement of some sort?

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Fritzo

Originally posted by: hconnor2
onkyo makes mediocre units with lots of bells and whistles, kinda like sprucing up a yugo. for my money yamaha is the only brand to buy. reason: it can handle 4 ohm speakers, which says a lot about its current loading abilities.

yamaha speakers and kef or b&w speakers are what i used to match up. hard to beat for the money. and i've listened to tons. hope this helps.

You've listened to "Tons"...heheh. What do you do, go to Best Buy and sit in their audio room, then watch a movie on each sound system? Maybe you like in a rich neighborhood where all of your neighbors have a different THX rated system and you went down the block taking a survey?

Actually, I upgraded my receiver from a SONY to an Onkyo last year and was very impressed. Their receivers offre excellent separation, provide a decent bass feed to the sub(s) (mine supports 2 subs). The build quality was a lot better than SONY's...they have excellent ventilation built in, with heatsyncs to help keep things cool and vent holes in high heat locations. My only gripe is that Onkyo's equalizer interfaces tend to be awkward awkward on their products. They have a menu system you have to go through to get to bass, treble, and separation controls. Separate knobs would have been better. Their remotes are also too complicated (they have little tiny buttons on them that are hard to find. The fact that the control layout stinks doesn't help much either. I use a SONY AV2100 for my remote anyway, so it's not an issue). I'm not sure how many people are going to take issue with 4 ohm speaker support. Not very many I would say.

I agree.

This onkyo now includes 192 kHz/24-Bit x 6 DACs so it wil definitely sound NICE. As for the Yamaha recommendation earlier, thye seemed too bright.

In the end I find Oknyo to be better than a lot of recievers and and out of its price range. My only other considerations when buying my reciever were an HK and a Denon. The denon, although a fabulous unit, only had a crappy 27mhz of Component bandwidth compared to the Onkyo's 60, while the HK with its beefy amps did not have component switching in my price range.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: sxr7171
At <a href="http://www.onkyousa.com/">http://www.onkyousa.com/</A> will find dynamic power ratings at 4 and 3 ohms. Most if not all receivers will do 4 ohms, but the vary in how well they can handle it. A good sign is steadily increasing power output as the impedence goes down. The absolute best amps double their power as impedence goes down. For example 100w into 8 ohms, 200w into 4 ohms, and 400w into 2 ohms. Some will even be stable at 1ohm and provide 800w at that impedence. However these kinds of products that can give full current delivery into 1 ohm usually cost thousands of dollars and are rare.

mark levinson...

Krell...


That stuff costs more than many mortgage payments out there....

 

[Apex]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

In the end I find Oknyo to be better than a lot of recievers and and out of its price range. My only other considerations when buying my reciever were an HK and a Denon. The denon, although a fabulous unit, only had a crappy 27mhz of Component bandwidth compared to the Onkyo's 60, while the HK with its beefy amps did not have component switching in my price range.

The Denon AVR-2803 is probably the closest competitor to the SR701 (it's about $600 or so), and it has a 100Mhz component switching bandwidth.

http://www.usa.denon.com/catalog/pdfs/AVR2803%20Lit%20Sheet.pdf

Below that though, you get 30Mhz component switching or below. Of course, this only really matters if you're switching 1080i or 720p.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Apex

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

In the end I find Oknyo to be better than a lot of recievers and and out of its price range. My only other considerations when buying my reciever were an HK and a Denon. The denon, although a fabulous unit, only had a crappy 27mhz of Component bandwidth compared to the Onkyo's 60, while the HK with its beefy amps did not have component switching in my price range.

The Denon AVR-2803 is probably the closest competitor to the SR701 (it's about $600 or so), and it has a 100Mhz component switching bandwidth.

http://www.usa.denon.com/catalog/pdfs/AVR2803%20Lit%20Sheet.pdf

Below that though, you get 30Mhz component switching or below. Of course, this only really matters if you're switching 1080i or 720p.

Yeah, the 2803 is nice..the 3803 is even ni9cer.

My budget let me consider only the Denon 1803, the Onkyo sr600(that is of course what I got) and a HK

 

[knightc2]

Harmon Kardon is the only mass hifi consumer brand that underates their receivers. When you compare a HK receiver rated at 65W, it usually blows away the competition that rates theirs at 100W.

Yeah, OK... I had my Adcom 60W amp and a harmon 400W amp hooked up side by side at a party and the Harmon amp shut down multiple times while the Adcom kept on cranking at full power (clipping lights were flasing) for 6+ hours. Not only was the Adcom louder and cleaner, it never shut down! That night really changed my mind about Harmon Kardon products. As far as Onkyo is concerned, I have a 70W per channel receiver and it is conservatively rated. Onkyo makes quality great sounding components that last.

 

[Technocrat]

In my personal experience I'd rather have an Onkyo or Integra Research over a HK or Yamaha.

HK's are too plasticy and Yamaha's were great in the early 90's.

I have an Integra Research 7.1 and it's THX and I find that it has PLENTY of power and plenty of features. The guy who said Onkyo was like a Yugo was on crack.

 

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[Goosemaster]

HK used to be insanely good.

One of my choices included an old 5x100 HK CITATION amp

 

[yz426]

Sup All
I just recieved an Onkyo TX-SR800 about 2 weeks ago. I have not had time to hook it up yet. I paid 749 including shipping from Here.

SKU: TXSR800/1K/****** Quantity: 1 Price: 749.00
Onkyo TX-SR800 A/V Receiver
Subtotal: $749.00
Tax: $0.00
Shipping & Handling: $0.00
Sale Amount: $749.00

Have had no experience with Onkyo before so I hope it will do the job.

Later

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: yz426
Sup All
I just recieved an Onkyo TX-SR800 about 2 weeks ago. I have not had time to hook it up yet. I paid 749 including shipping from Here.

SKU: TXSR800/1K/****** Quantity: 1 Price: 749.00
Onkyo TX-SR800 A/V Receiver
Subtotal: $749.00
Tax: $0.00
Shipping & Handling: $0.00
Sale Amount: $749.00

Have had no experience with Onkyo before so I hope it will do the job.

Later

You lucky bastard.


Some advice however. LISTEN to the equipment you're going to buy if you are spendign that much. There is a lot of eqiupment out there that has distinct acoustical characteristics. Onkyo is pretty neutral, but Yamaha is sometimes bright. It it important to test the equipment so you will be able to enjoy the most out of it. Some people like bright. I like neutral

 

[Apex]

$647.86 shipped is about as low as I've seen TX-SR800's go for at factory authorized etailers.

 

[yz426]

Goosemaster I orginally was looking at the outlaw 950 770 combo but could not justify around 2400 right now. The thing about going to listen to systems and I may be wrong here is that all and I do mean all of the speakers I listen to in stores are crap. I am going to hook up FL,C,FR to some JBL L100s The rest will get some JBL L36s. Maybe I should of brought 1 home and tried it out but it is to late now. If I want to crank out the tunes I have 2 old YAMAHA M-80s for that. If the 800 does not sufice the next purchase will be the outlaw and that will be enough power to get rid of the M-80s and make life a little simple.

On another note I was just looking for some good cables that I would not have to sell my truck to buy. I was on Cnet shopper and they showed the 800 for 749 at J&R as of 8/23. I clicked on the buy now though and did not see any at J&R.

link to cnet

 

[Apex]

L series. Nice choice.