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Onkyo TX-SR705 7.1 Channel Home Theater Receiver (Black) | 
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| Brand: Onkyo
Category: CE
List Price: $799.00
Buy New: $449.97
You Save: $349.03 (44%)
New (4) from $449.97
Avg. Customer Rating:  156 reviews
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 37.3
Dimensions (in): 14.8 x 17.1 x 6.9
Warranty: 2 years warranty
MPN: TXSR705
Model: TXSR705
UPC: 051398007799
EAN: 0051398007799
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | 100 Watts/Channel at 8 ohms (FTC) | | • | Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD Master Audio, Dolby Digital Plus, DTS-HD High Resolution Audio, Dolby Pro Logic IIx, DTS Neo:6, THX Select 2 and THX Surround EX Decoder. | | • | HDMI video up-conversion with DCDi technology | | • | HDMI V1.3 repeater (3 in/1 out, 1080p compatible) | | • | RS232 Port for Audyssey MultEQ XT Interface Control |
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Product Description
Onkyo is an organization consisting of people unsurpassed in the love of sound. Onkyo won't settle for second best. It strives to complete what it has started. That's the Onkyo spirit. For the past half-century Onkyo components have been recognized as uncommonly musical among those who are truly fanatical about their music.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 151 more reviews...
 Great Receiver, Great Price September 3, 2007
130 out of 140 found this review helpful
The reason to get this receiver over the 605 is the step up to 3 hdmi inputs and THX certification.
The power consumption of this unit is more efficient then the 805 and 605. This unit was built after those 2 other models. This isn't the lonely middle child, it shines on its own.
There is also a slew of issues this receiver does not exhibit that the 805 has problems with (check AVS forums for details)
HDMI video looks great, 7.1 sound great! Price is great! :)
 zone 2 ONLY PLAYS analog input October 15, 2007
116 out of 133 found this review helpful
I totally agree with all previous reviews but I want to add one detail that totally boggles my mind. When I setup my outdoor speakers I could not get any sound out of them and tried everything. Until I read the trouble shooting section in the manual that states: NO Sound, Zone 2? ONLY COMPONENTS CONNECTED TO ANALOG INPUTS CAN BE PLAYED IN ZONE 2" so if by chance you want to use your XM/Serius MP3 digital player in multiple zones, you cant! IPOD connected? nope that wont work either. I ended up running RCA cables into the receiver from my MP3 player (weak sauce considering what i just paid for this thing). I just upgraded from an old Yamaha that did this just fine. I am not going to return it because i am pretty much invested in the thing now. If I had to do it over again I would like to have known this up front. I am still in shock...
 Pain to set up -- very poor user manual October 30, 2007
55 out of 72 found this review helpful
This is my second surround receiver, so it should be straightforward to set up. Not. Took hours to figure out how to get a video signal to the TV. Too many factory defaults are set wrong, like getting video passed through.
The manual is very thick and terrible. No meaningful organization to actually get up and running, you keep hitting brick walls and sent down rabbit trails. Without even having video to the TV, you are left using the front panel display for selections, which is pretty hopeless in itself.
And even after two weeks of use, I found that the default setting for audio is a 40 ms delay. No wonder things are out of sync; this is only suitable for progressive disk players, not live TV broadcasts, which typically should be close to zero delay. You might assume the default would be zero; but it's not. You have to check everything.
In short, this is a very capable receiver, but getting it set up is just awful. Once you --finally-- reach the audio "audessy" setup with the microphone, it is painless. Audessy works quite well. They have solved the typical setup problems, but allowed a host of others to crop up.
Fan noise is excessive, the fan seems to have 2 speeds: on and off. It also seems to make a ringing sound as its frequency often reinforces the sound of the (normally quiet) fan in my 60" Sony LCD projector above it.
This is the best bang for the buck, sounds fabulous, but -- really -- needs a better manual.
Not enough video inputs November 28, 2007
53 out of 76 found this review helpful
I have had this unit for about 2 months now. Sound is great and so is the up-conversion video quality. However something that was not mentioned in the other reviews has surprised me. Despite the HUGE number of inputs on the back they serve for nothing because they are configured to be used "EITHER/OR". Let me explain. The unit is configured based on the type device. For instance, the DVD input can be configured to be S-video, composite, component video, or HDMI. This means that if I configure my DVD on S-Video1, I'm unable to use HDMI1, Composite1, or Component Video1. This is terrible because basically you're left with 4 max video inputs. I have 2 DVDs plugged, 1 DVD recorder and my satellite and already run out of inputs! This means that my game is not connected. If I get a BlueRay I'd have to disconnected yet another piece of equipment. To make matters worse, the display names are also fixed. So I have one of my DVDs on the Game input and I can't change the name on the display to be DVD2. Meaning that I have to remember associations Game=DVD2, LD=DVD Recorder, etc.
It is a shame such a piece of equipment (at this price) provides only 4 video inputs. Really a shame!
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UPDATE
Since then I have talked to Onkyo USA. So I thought I'd add. They have terrible costumer service, after waiting for 30 minutes on hold (without any indication of how long I was supposed to wait), a rude and impolite gentleman answered the phone with a arrogant tone. I asked about the "input issue" below and that they are misleading the people by not saying anything about the fact that you really have 5 inputs (which you can assign HDMI, SVideo, etc) and he just told me that "it is what it is, you don't like you can return the product". And I will!!! Based on this attitude I'll never buy Onkyo again. I wish I could change my ratings to 1 star!!
Gotta have * 3 * HDMI 1.3 inputs September 14, 2007
40 out of 41 found this review helpful
I've had this AV Receiver for 2 weeks now. It plays nicely with my Samsung LNT-4661 LCD TV, Playstation 3, Motorola DCT6412 cable DVR and PC. I have a 7.1 speaker setup (at the moment it's a jumble of brands - Polk RM8000T front, Infinity Alpha 25ES dipole/bipole surround, Acoustic Research AR303 rear surround and Infinity subwoofer).
I think one of the key reasons I chose to go with the SR705 over the SR605 is the fact that it has * 3 * HDMI inputs. It keeps the cabling a little better under control when there's only a single receiver to TV HDMI cable. Also it handles the upconversion of non-HD sources very well with Faroudjia DCDi.
I'd say I'd agree with the complexity of setup, but it's easier than it is on a lot of other AV Receivers. It comes with the Audyssey calibration equipment. I haven't done any fancy audiometry to evaluate the accuracy of the automatic calibration but I'm impressed as a listener.
It has all the power it needs to fill the room with sound, whether it's classical music, rock or movie soundtrack. I'm happy with my decision.
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