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Onkyo Home Theater Receiver TX-NR1000 | 
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| Brand: Onkyo
Category: CE
List Price: $6,500.00
Buy Used: $1,699.99
You Save: $4800.01 (74%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Shipping Weight (lbs): 84
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
Warranty: 2 years warranty
MPN: txnr1000b
Model: NR1000
UPC: 751398005787
EAN: 0751398005787
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | THX Surround EX and THX Ultra 2 Certified | | • | 7 Channels x 150 Watts @ 8 ohms | | • | HDTV-Ready Component Video Switching Input/Output - 4/2 | | • | 13 Digital Inputs (7 Optical/6 Coaxial), 4 Digital Outputs (2 Optical/2 Coaxial) | | • | 7.1 Multichannel Input |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Avoid short-term obsolescence with this big "Bad Boy" of a receiver. It's powerful and highly accurate with a 192 kHz/24-bit DACs and dual 32-bit DSP chips to bring out the highest in sound accuracy from the latest sound formats. And, you'll really love that with future technologies you'll be able to replace a card instead of the entire receiver. Audio and AV Inputs - 3/6, S-Video Compatible Jacks Input/Output - 6/3 Total - 11 RCA, 6 Digital Coaxial, 6 Digital Optical, 7 Video Composite, 5 S-Video, 2 Component; Ethernet Port, IEEE 1394 Digital Input DTS, DTS-EX Discrete/Matrix 6.1, DTS Neo - 6, Dolby Digital, Pro Logic II, Dolby Digital EX; 39 Digital Soundfield Processing Modes Front Panel Video Input (with S-Video), Amp In, IR In/Out (1/1) RI-Compatible Remote Control - Preprogrammed/Learning/Backlit Modular Card Based Design DACs - 192 kHz/24-Bit x 6/96 kHz/24-Bit x 2 All Discrete Output Stage Amplifiers, Optimum Gain Volume Circuitry, Digital Upsampling Internet Features - Net-Tune, Ethernet, 40 Internet Radio Presets A-Form Listening Mode Memory, CinemaFILTER, Late Night Mode Composite to S-Video Conversion, Composite to S-Video to Component Upconversion; HDMI Switching 2 Inputs/1 Output Adjustable Digital Delay, Crossover Adjustment Pre Outs - Front L/R, Center, Surround L/R, Surround Back, Subwoofer 3-Level Display Dimmer Bi-Directional RS-232 Terminal Dual Banana Binding Posts Sleep Timer Phono Input 3 Zone Capability 5 12-Volt Triggers; 3 IR Outputs 40 AM/FM presets Absolute/Relative Volume Display, Intelli-Volume Size - 17 1/8 x 8 11/16 x 18 15/16 Weight - 48 lbs. 2-Year Parts and Labor Warranty
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| Customer Reviews:
 Onkyo TX-NR1000 - NO HDMI UPGRADES September 23, 2007
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
At release, this receiver was very good. One flaw was it had HDMI 1.0, not HDMI 1.1. Onkyo marketed this flagship model as a "future-proof" modular design that could be upgraded to keep up with changes in audio / video technology. Well, Onkyo failed miserably to support this model with upgrades. They have offered one upgrade card... a radio card that includes XM, Sirius and HD radio interfaces. That's it. Onkyo has never made an official announcement about this. I and others on the AVS Forum have emailed Onkyo, but only received generic answers (check our site for updates, etc.). For more than a year, no response until this month. They responded to my email by stating that they will offer NO HDMI card updates. Because of changes in DSP technology, they are unable to offer HDMI 1.3 cards. Now they are offering a trade-in. Send back your ($4999.99 list) TX-NR1000 flagship and they'll exchange it for a TX-NR905 ($2099.99 list), AND you need to pay an extra $1000.00 in addition!
This is outrageously poor treatment to their flagship customers. Offer upgradability, don't deliver and expect your customers to pay MORE.
 unattended beauty April 14, 2005
9 out of 20 found this review helpful
Everything you expect from top-flight name-brand modern home theatre's "powerhouse brain centre": actually rated ample power per channel, an array of features and options (taking a lifetime to get acquainted with), stunning build and looks (insides too!), reliable service-free circuitry... I'll save my breath on the list and specs. Plus more.
There are pretty good reasons to table those $5,000 (or so) and prefer the Onkyo. It's not for nothing that the brand pioneered the sweet forward sound character in 70s' items like direct drive turntables, stereo-amps and 3-way speakers. It was the only international partner of best phono cartridge makers. Those lines discontinued, the identity stays in this digital era unit. For that matter, the quality phono stage feels fine amidst the CD/DVD/HDTV busy modules. Even if vynil is last on your mind, the thing won't hurt. It reflects the ideology by which the overall amazing pulsy rhythmic tasty hi-to-lowdown-balanced sound couples with those hi-tech 150 w.p.c. and "longword" 24 bit DACs.
It's the happy coupling you pay for. It's this that the competition lack. And it's this that makes speaker selection piece of cake - anything goes. HDTV and composite video ability of the Onkyo is another boon. Again, the brand makes the most of its warm colour temperature philosophy and comes up with actually bettering whatever comes in and goes out to the screen. The feature contradicts with thesis that direct video feed (bypassing a receiver) is best in home theatres.
To cut long story short, I can't help surrendering to Onkyo. Every stride the [...] make, I see no room to improve. Because I want my home theatre to reveal the material, not just connect to other zones or the Web (these are the last on MY mind). I also task the system with about impossible - to play vynil collection like American cartridges used to. Digital artifacts notwithstanding. Analog direct, 6-channel stereo of DPL modes. This machine serves it all up.
Reservations: They are meagre, but the money warrant everything. I still find the back panel a nightmare to commute, the remote an attention-grabber, the front a beaten-up path. Having spent little time with the machine, I actually can't make out whether it's matrix 6.1 or proper discreet 7.1 DTS-ES which - I know - alone is enough to scare wits out of an over-caucious non-buff. To reasure such, 6.1 come across as no different to 7.1 (or, for that matter, to 10.1 which some Lucasfilm guys custom-build).
Verdict: In use at medium to large dwellings it behaves every bit as good as the flagship model (which the local distributor frets to price even!). It heads the major-league name-brand hi-end class in terms of sound/visual appeal. It's humane on features (equalisation and DSP effects), terrific and consciencious on parts (the beauty transformers and caps!) and advanced on circuitry. Then, it will fly twice as dearer on elitist markets where sky is the limit (consider the contender's lot in Russia as the example).
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