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Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
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Buzzes like a fridge....
Well not exactly like a fridge, more like two or three fridges.
This receiver is powerful and decodes everything under the sun. The sound coming out of this receiver is great and very clean. I've never bought an A/V receiver before and was a bit nervous about setting it up, but I set this up very easily with almost no learning curve. The Audyssey speaker set-up is very easy and gives great results.
The first problem with the receiver is that it runs very hot. Too hot to touch. I think this is by design and from what I've read these receivers do not have overheating issues, but you have to be careful where you put it. Forget about having a closed cabinet. Also, the thing runs very hot in a cabinet with an open front but with a closed back. Basically you need this behemoth out in the open if you want to be sure you don't start a small fire. The thing is huge, about half the size of a coffee table, and I don't like having it out, especially when I have a cabinet with all my other devices.
The second problem with the receiver is the deal-breaker however. If you have a PS3, the receiver causes a terribly annoying buzzing at mid to high volumes. Basically any volume 25+ causes the buzz. The buzz is incredibly loud and comes out the speakers. From what I've read Onkyo apparently fixed this issue and came out with the Onkyo TX-SR606B. This is what I ordered from J&R, and assuming they sent me the 606B, the receiver still buzzes.
Overall, I would recommend the receiver if you don't have a PS3. If you do, then I don't know-it's up to you. I expect to be completely satisfied with a $500 dollar electronic device, so I'm sending it back. And I never send things back.
Something to keep in mind is that although the receiver decodes TrueHD and DTS-HD, if you have a PS3 it's not even needed. The PS3 decodes these formats itself and sends the uncompressed PCM data to the receiver. The receiver doesn't handle any of the decoding. I expect my PS3 to be my Bluray/DVD player for many years, so in the end I may not even need all the features of the SR606 and can just go with a non-buzzing receiver that doesn't have a tendency to heat my apartment in August.
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A Non-functional Receiver
The TX-SR606 is chock full of features. Up-scaling video to 1080i, up-converting output to HDMI. We bought it for the HDMI switching and to eliminate over half of the cables hanging from our Sony LCD, which it did fantastically. If only it would have worked. A Wii hooked up to Component 1 IN did not get transmitted to the TV either by HDMI or by Component OUT. Trying it on Component 2 IN made no difference. Connecting it directly to the TV verified that the Wii and its component feed worked properly. You can select either of the component IN's as the source, and assign them to an audio source and button on the remote, but you do not have an option in any of the menus to set the output path and no path seemed to work at all. In the receiver's favor, the HDMI switching did work perfectly with three HDMI sources connected.
The sound of the 606 proved to be quite bright, almost tinny compared to our 6 year old warm sounding Denon AVR-1803. The Audyssey auto speaker setup, sent the front sound almost equally to all three front speakers instead of concentrating speech on the center speaker which is designed specifically for clear speech. This made for a more muddled speech quality. It also made the surrounds a good bit louder than manual setup using a sound meter, resulting in some speech being drowned out by surround effects. We were not impressed by the sound quality as compared to an older Denon, and even less impressed by a non-working Component IN.
The remote was also somewhat strange in that you had to keep selecting the Receiver button to send commands to the receiver as opposed to the TV, the other selection button. Receiver should be the default selection on a receiver's remote and you should not have to hit two buttons to perform an action on the receiver. This in turn made the receiver not work on a Harmony 880 remote as programmed in by Logitech. Each command would have to be specially programmed as a macro as each required more than one button press.
All of these combined resulted in the low score I have given this receiver. Despite glowing reviews by most other people, there were too many issues with the receiver to warrant more than two stars.
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Huge bang-for-the-buck receiver for affordable home theater
As of this writing, this Onkyo TX-SR606 receiver is selling on Amazon for the ridiculously low price of $380, which has to be one of the best values out there for achieving close-to state-of-the-art home theater switching for all of your audio and video components. Coupled up with a Sony Playstation 3, an excellent $500 range sub, and 6 satellite style speakers, you will have an audio system people will be blown away by.
Performance has been excellent, setup was a breeze. Be sure to include the Blu-ray player if you want to enjoy the benefits of true 7.1 processing.
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Sounds good, Video is so so
I have yet to hookup my PS3. I understand many have had humming issues with using a PS3 for DTS-HD MA and TrueHD.
I have a 1080i HD Cable box and regular DVD player hooked up. The HDMI from the cable box gets passed to the TV fine. It looks 0.1% better going straight to the TV, but that would be expected. I tested regular DVD using passthrough and 1080i upscaling and I didn't see much, if any, difference. I don't think the 1080i upscaling works very well.
Sound is great. I have a 7.1 setup and all speakers are well powered and clean. It upgrades the 5.1 sound from cable and DVD to 7.1 well. I haven't tested a 7 channel source yet.
It gets very hot. Even at lower volumes. I have yet to really blast the volume as my wife and 3 kids would scream at me.
I wanted a receiver that could pass HDMI 1.3a with many HDMI inputs and this fits the bill. I haven't found anything wrong, but was somewhat dissappointed by the 1080i upconversion. I plan on getting a blu-ray player so I won't need to do 1080i upconversion.
Overall, I'm glad I got it. I probably would have been just as happy with a comparable yamaha, pioneer, or sony.
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Great Value/Quality in an affordable A/V receiver
After reading some of the professional reviews of this receiver, I recently upgraded to this Onkyo 606. Mainly I did it to get the 4 HDMI connections, and so I could pass 'bitstream' to this receiver so it could decode 'DTS-HD Master Audio' and 'Dolby TrueHD' for lossless sound.
I have to say that the setup of this receiver was VERY easy and while my previous Pioneer VSX-1015TX receiver had very good sound, this Onkyo is noticably better. Incredible surround sound clarity with my setup.
I also love how the HDMI connections makes the hookups so much easier and uncluttered, along with the fact that my BluRay and HD-DVD movies played on my Panasonic BluRay and Toshiba HD-DVD players look and sound incredible.
Highly recommended. Great value for the money.
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