Onkyo TX-SR505 7.1 Channel Home Theater Receiver (Black)

Outstanding for the money my son bought the more expensive model of this receiver,he is a professional musician,and we both agree this model is the best bang for the buck.I have it tied to a 50 inch sanyo high def tv and polk rm20 home theater,love the sound and ease of operation. larry g

I am very pleased with my new Onkyo receiver. The sound quality when matched with my new Yamaha speakers is very good and the receiver has all the features I need plus it looks great along with the rest of my equipment. I certainly recommend this unit to budget minded individuals who also demand performance and quality.

My 2005 Yamaha 650 series was very good to me until my dog chewed one of the speakers wires and shorted out the receiver, so I decided to try the new Onkyo TX-SR605 model everyone was raving about besides the overheating problem with Onkyo, everything I heard about the receiver was good. Which I agreed until I tried the Denon. I did all the automatic speaker calibration which worked very well. The sound was ok but not very impressed so I tried tweaking with the sound but did not get much better. Remember, I was comparing this unit to my Yamaha. Then I decided to look to see what else what out there around the same price and the Yamaha and Onkyo. I found the Denon AVR-688, so I tried that out since I knew Denon was pretty reputable. Both places had a 30 day return policy so I new I had 3 1/2 weeks on left on the Onkyo to do the comparison. After the lengthy set up with the Denon (took me 4 times longer to set up the Denon than the Onkyo), which is not as hard as people say as long as you go step by step through the instruction. I decided to play some music and all I can say is this thing sounds 20% better than my two year old Yamaha and 40% better than the Onkyo. The Onkyo was very good for the money but the sound did not have the depth of the Denon. Listening to a TV program, the center speaker sounds so much more life like. The Onkyo had a very thin sound compared to the Denon. It was almost like teh Onkyo was playing through curtains. This is playing on a $400 center speaker. I wish I could put a picture on here of me with both receivers just to prove that I did the test. This is not just my opinion but even my wife, who could care less of how it sounds, said she could tell a difference. I had them both out side by side so I could quickly plug up one to compare. I also use banana plugs to for the speaker connectors to make the swap even faster. I will be returning the Onkyo this weekend. I do have not have a vested interest in this article but the difference in sound was worth writing.

I have owned onkyo products for the last 10 years, so choosing onkyo was easy. The only reason for the four star rating was there is no remote code to operate my toshiba dvd recorder. So yes another remote. Setup was easy with the auto calibration. Sounds great with my bose surround sound.

This receiver sounds good, but I found that it gets really hot after a couple of hours of use. I had to put a new shelf in my entertainment center rack so I wouldn't have to put any other components on top of the receiver. There is no fan to circulate the air in the receiver. Other than that (and HDMI pass through only) it has good sound and good features. The remote leaves much to be desired, but at this price who can complain too much.