Sound, performance, features,appearance, value

Really vague instructions for set-up

I really researched a Surround Receiver before picking this one. My main goal was performance based on price because I was trying to build a home theater on a low budget ($1000). This receiver fit my budget and had the most amps and features than any other receiver in it's price class. Also, I talked to a lot of other home theater and music enthusiasts, and most of them recommended either Technics or Onkyo. Don't be fooled by retail stereo stores, watts don't mean a thing. You want amps. The more amps the receiver has, the heavier it is. To select a good, quality receiver, pick it up. This one ways in at 27lbs! Compare that with Yamaha, Sony, Bose, JBL, whatever; they're all lightweights. My only complaint with Onkyo is their instruction manual is weak. It takes a little patience to work through setting it up, but in the end, it's well worth it.

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Yamaha, Sony

Easy to use and sounds great. 5.1 is sounds outstanding

NO BASS.......

I have always purchased Onkyo products and they get better by the year. I payed $500.00 a year ago and you can find this now for around $350.00.. GREAT BUY....

great sound

bass but get a sub fixs that.

this is very good sound for the price and great job done with 5.1 but needs a little more power for the bass but if you buy a sub it fix that fine. and you need a sub if use it for hometheater.

Simple to use
Sounds very good, also at a low volume.
easy to assign digital inputs to input button (DVD, CD...)
GREAT remote control unit... look nice and is VERY easy to program to use other devices in your home theater (TV, VCR, DVD...)

No Mpeg multichannel
no automatic RDS station name / program descrition switching (Denon has this nice feature)

Really good Amp... sounds VERY good, better than a denon at the same price...

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