Smoothness and quality unheard of at this price point. Fabulous customer service.

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I started buliding my home theater very modestly about a year and a half ago with the 1050. I figured I'd upgrade it in the future. I built around it with inexpensive speakers and a cheap DVD player, after all, how good was a $500 receiver going to sound with expensive stuff around it?

I thought I would be happy for a while with my system, but I soon caught the "bug" and grew weary of my budget components. I purchased a pair of Joseph Audio RM25 speakers ($3400), a Pioneer Elite DV 09 ($1500), and a Sunfire Grand Sig amp ($3400). I planned to also replace my Outlaw with the Sunfire Theater Grand mk2 pre-amp ($3400), but had to delay it because of lack of funds.

Good thing! You know what? The Outlaw 1050, all of $500, sounded great with all of that expensive equipment going through it! I even had my friend hook up his Sunfire pre-amp with my system and we could barely hear the difference, no matter what we fed it, be it music or movies. Certainly not enough to justify the $3000 price difference.

This product is a steal at this price. Couple that with an unbelievably helpful service staff (they just about hooked up my system for me) and you have a winning product all around.

Features, sustantial build, reputation

Inherent hiss design flaw, lackluster customer service

After reading the reviews and doing a great deal of research in local stores and on the web, etc., I decided upon the DTR-5, a derivation of the then current Onkyo TX-DS575 DD receiver. Long story short, one should heed the warnings of a terminal 'hiss' through all speaker channels. Apparently, neither the retailers or manufacturer is privy to this major performance shortcoming, have since 'forgotten', or do not truly want the product to be superior to mere mass market standards. Current backlog for the 'authorized shop' is several months plus.

Unfortunate for a product with otherwise great potential; hopefully the notorious "hiss" issue has been resolved in subsequent models. Had customer support been forthright in dealing and resolving the issue, things would be different; however, I do not plan on any future consideration.

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Everything, I even liked the remote. Thought the bass was fine, thought the overall unit sounded looked and performed beautifully!!!

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I absolutely love this thing I got it for $399 shipped and all. That is a steal, this thing is perfect for me and I love all of the features, Try to find another non mass produced, Hand Made unit with DTS DD and 5 channel Stereo, 3 digital inputs and 70 watts per 5 channels for $399 that is tough to beat. Rating excellent for value and performance. Can't beat it with anything I have seen.

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Onkyo TXDS555 TXDS575 TXDS676 Denon AVR 1800 and 2800

Fairly easy set up, clean/clear sound reproduction, no noise, and suround sound ready. Smart remote can program itself for other equipment.

AM/FM reception with equipment included is less than desirable. Can't isolate individual speakers.

I purchased this product for music only. Matched it up with Klipsch KSB 1.1 speakers and KSW12 subwoofer. So far I'm very happy with the entire set up although the subwoofer didn't seem to produce room filling base that I expected at first. I changed its location and there seems to be a better performance. But the receiver has been great. After reading the reviews on the other onkyos having noise/hiss problems I guess I lucked out with this product. Very clean and clear sound. The price was high in comparison to others so I'm marking down the value rating but the overall rating is 5 stars.

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I looked at pioneer, sony and yamaha receivers as well as the onkyo 575.

binding posts for fronts & center, 2 coax/1 optical input, clean sound, great remote, 5-channel stereo, dts decoding

spring clips for rears, no s-vid switching, doesn't always remember speaker level settings.

I originally purchased this receiver back in November after falling in love with it in the store. At $479 (i know you could get it much cheaper now), i felt this receiver would fit my system nicely. After a few months of tweaking (speaker levels, placement, cable swapping...etc), I am still more than happy with this purchase. It's got great, clean sounding audio, especially on the DVD player (also an Integra) and i listen to almost everything else in 5-channel stereo. At 70 watts/channel, you can most certainly find a receiver that would push more watts, but i've never had to turn this one up past 50 or so (out of 80) and can still listen to it downstairs. The remote is excellent, even though it is not backlit, as it offers full-learning functions and macro modes (very helpful, because the dtr-5 does not have the automatic sound level switching when you change sources) and is now the only remote i use. I would have preferred binding posts for all speaker sources (and binding posts that would accept spades in the first place), but overall, with the features and quality of this unit, I don't really think you can go wrong.

System:

Receiver: Integra DTR-5
DVD: Integra CDC-6
CD: Integra DPC-3
Turntable: Denon DP-24F
Fronts: Infinity RS-5
Center: Infinity CC-3
Rears: Infinity Sterling Series 2200
Sub: JBL PSW-1000 (I know, I know...this one's going soon)
Cables: Self-Made