Onkyo TX-SR607 7.2-Channel A/V Surround Home Theater Receiver

5 comments

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   Z. C. Gokce on December 17, 2009 at 9:32 am

   I have several Onkyo products. I have always been happy with them until recently one of them need servicing. I had never had to deal with Onkyo support. They are by far the worst customer support I have dealt with. They do not return phone calls. There is no RMA system in place. I have been told it would take 10 days to repair it. When I send the equipment and call to check the status I have been told it would take 3-4 weeks. Onkyo makes good products but they need long ways to go for customer support.

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   cybergel78 on December 17, 2009 at 12:22 pm

   I was using a Sony home theatre in a box for 5.1 sound for both DVD playback and BD playback via PS3. I know, I know, it’s a poor substitute. The Sony “amplifier” couldn’t handle loud explosions and low bass scenes. So, I decided to plunge in after much haggling with my better half. What can I say? Action movies never sounded that good, in fact DTS-HD can kick some of the cinema’s sound systems today.

   Setup was initially difficult. The speaker wire cutting and stripping actually. I used Chord Campana speaker wires. These were from the UK. Thought it was hard enough to strip them, but I made a bad mistake ordering only 10 metres of it. That’s another issue…

   Finding out I didn’t have enough for my rear surround speakers, I quickly placed an order for a set of 50 feet Monster speaker cables. Surprisingly, it was cheap from Amazon, unlike its other cables. Arrived today, set up the remaining wires, cutting and stripping them…It was tougher than I thought, the plastic coverings for the Monster wires are really thick!

   After which, it’s gaming and BD time in HD audio! Enjoy! You wouldn’t regret this purchase. Great price for a mid-range product as stated by previous reviwers.

3. 

   RW on December 17, 2009 at 3:08 pm

   Good solid reciever. Easy to set up.

   Lousy remote, so you need to plan to pick a good universal like the Sony RMVL610N.

4. 

   Jonas on December 17, 2009 at 5:56 pm

   Got this receiver few days back. The sound quality is definitely much better than other similar-priced mid-range receivers. The good thing that I like about this product is that it can take your average bookshelf speakers and turn them into a functional home theater system.

   however I have been struggling get it work with my HTPC. All my hi-def truHD content is on my media center pc. All my connections are HDMI only. However it doesn’t work. No video from TX-SR607. I specifically asked the sales person about ability to connect this product with a HTPC. And he promised it will work. But it didn’t. Onkyo tech support, AV Forums haven’t rendered any solutions yet.

   If anyone has been able to use TX-SR607 with their Media Center PC (mine is windows7 htpc with HDMI/HDCP capable video card.) successfully — please help me. My HTPC works fine if directly connected to TV.

   Overall great product. Will give four stars if the htpc/receiver works. If not I am planning to return it.

   J

   Update :

   After few weeks of experimentation and help from some forum experts – I seem to have found a happy medium. The issue seem to be due to signal handshake that happens between the TX-SR607 and the media center PC. Just upgrading to the 1.3b category 2 HDMI cable alone wasn’t sufficient. The TX-SR607 needs an active video signal feed from HTPC in order to detect and select that PC video signal input.

   Any audio / video signal needs to be kept playing on my HTPC while I select the input on TX-SR607. And it will work just fine.

   Other than this the receiver works like a charm. I have it with polk 7.1 system and it sounds great. Combination of Polk RM7s and RM8s with a powerful sub will rock your house.

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   HorrorGuy on December 17, 2009 at 6:54 pm

   My Denon AVR 1086 was about 6 years old, at a cost of about $650. The Denon was giving me some issues and the lack of HDMI connectivity made it necessary to upgrade my AVR, especially since I wanted to jump into the Blu-Ray mode. I got this receiver a couple weeks ago and it was remarkably easy to setup; I recall my Denon was not so easy. I consider this to be an extraordinary value based on the cost of this unit, through Amazon, to be in the low $400 range. I have a nice set of Boston home theater speakers, including a Boston powered sub-woofer, and this Onkyo delivers nice and clean sound quality to my speakers.

   I am a proud middle aged bachelor so I have miles of heavy speaker wire running and draped everywhere. This is probably a direct protest to nagging and neat freak chicks. My heart goes out to you guys that have to ask your GFs/Brides if it’s Ok for you to have a surround system and then they -ONLY- grant permission -IF- it’s clean, tidy and virtually unnoticeable. I had to toss this part in since it can be such a PITA to get a surround system put system together in the first place; I can’t imagine making all the speakers, wires and cables just disappear when all is said and done.

   I have not done the auto speaker eq/setup and may not bother since it sounds good right out of the box. The HDMI in and out setup was a snap. I got a Sony Blu-Ray at the same time so now I am cooking with gas. My new Blu-Ray and old DVD movies look and sound amazing. I strongly recommend a solid universal remote control to alleviate MRM (multi-remote-madness). Good luck and high scoring!