I have read about some people having problems with Onkyo receivers. I have also read a lot of good feedback from people who have not had issues for years. Given the 2 year warranty and the return of the Black Friday sale price, I will take the plunge and hope for the best.
My wife made me get rid of my JBL floor standing 3.1 speakers when we upgraded to a 65" TV this past Christmas. Replaced with a Klipsch Bar 48 sound bar that has a discrete speaker for dialogue and love it. Sound bars have actually matched the sound quality of receiver/speaker setups for the first time in my life. Just make sure the sound bar has discrete center channel speaker.
Question for my fellow nerds: last year I saw another brand (the name escapes me) that had an interesting feature -- basically, we could continue to use our existing 5.1 speaker set up, and the receiver would emulate "true" Atmos without the extra (esp. ceiling-facing) speakers. I don't see that feature on this Onkyo. I don't even know if it's really a thing or just a sales gimmick.
Thoughts, advice? I'm mega-cheap, so I'd prefer not to get suggestions like "it's easy to convert bookcase speakers into your 7.1 or 8.1 Atmos system." Ideally, I'd prefer the receiver to do the work.
EDIT: aha, so it is Onkyo. The feature is called "height virtualizer":
The "just google ...Problems with Onkyo receivers..." is from at least 7 years ago and it wasn't due to Onkyo's crappy builds. A MAJOR capacitor producer made millions of faulty capacitors and the many manufacturers that used those components ended up with products that failed due to that. Onkyo did the best they could to do the right thing without going bankrupt by giving out fee receivers. I am not an Onkyo fanboy, actually prefer Denon, but they don't deserve the bad rap still.
Comments & Reviews (9)
This receiver is rediculously awesome at this price. 7 HDMI inputs, atmos, airplay, etc. I have thad his model since Christmas 2019 with no problems.
Replaced with a Klipsch Bar 48 sound bar that has a discrete speaker for dialogue and love it.
Sound bars have actually matched the sound quality of receiver/speaker setups for the first time in my life. Just make sure the sound bar has discrete center channel speaker.
Question for my fellow nerds: last year I saw another brand (the name escapes me) that had an interesting feature -- basically, we could continue to use our existing 5.1 speaker set up, and the receiver would emulate "true" Atmos without the extra (esp. ceiling-facing) speakers. I don't see that feature on this Onkyo. I don't even know if it's really a thing or just a sales gimmick.
Thoughts, advice? I'm mega-cheap, so I'd prefer not to get suggestions like "it's easy to convert bookcase speakers into your 7.1 or 8.1 Atmos system." Ideally, I'd prefer the receiver to do the work.
https://www.eu.onkyo.com/en/articles/firmware-update-for-imax-enhanced-and-dolby-atmos-height-virtualizer-released-for-select-onkyo-a-v-components-157574.html
Onkyo did the best they could to do the right thing without going bankrupt by giving out fee receivers.
I am not an Onkyo fanboy, actually prefer Denon, but they don't deserve the bad rap still.
Thank you!