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

My old Gateway DVD system died but the speakers were good so I was looking for an inexpensive system to connect to our 400 cd changer and plasma tv. This one fit the bill with lots of hookup options and a really great choice of input and output options. Caution - this model does not have the Sirius and XM ports. It also puts out a lot of heat. The remote is super and even controls our Time Warner box

Unless you are an audiophile, I'm sure that you will be quite pleased with this receiver! I know I am!

Bought this item to replace an ailing NAD T640 5.1 Home Theater Receiver which I dearly loved (when it worked). It was clean and powerful which I need to power my floor-standing Polk speakers. But, I should have made the switch sooner!! I was looking for a replacement that would give me the most bang for my buck and after weeks of research narrowed it down to the Onkyo TX-SR505. WOW, what a bargain at $234! Had it swapped out and fine-tuned in less than half an hour, tested all the features the first evening, and it's every bit as clean and powerful as my old NAD and offers features I always wished my NAD had. I listen to a lot of music and I love that the Onkyo delivers stereo to my front and rear floor-standing Polks. Has an excellent speaker setup system which worked perfectly on the first try. Has been in constant use for two months now and no problems. And I don't know what other people are talking about when they mention it runs hot...mine is enclosed in an audio rack and I listen to it extremely loud...and it has never gotten more than slightly warm. If you're simply looking for great surround sound and music you won't be disappointed.

i recently purchased this unit after buying two other, more expensive and more complicated systems.

i first bought the Sony str-dg810 6.1 channel receiver, and much to my dismay it was an awful receiver. i returned it for the Harmon Kardon avr-147 and while it was an upgrade, it still lacked the sound quality. i finally ended up purchasing this receiver and i was pleasently surprised. for the price, you get a good receiver with good sound quality, and a decent picture. if you are looking for top end, than this isn't for you. however, if you don't want to shell out a grand, i would buy this before buying the other "made in china" receivers!!

I purchased this receiver to run HDMI to my 37" LCD TV from my PS3 and HD-DVD player. After getting everything hooked up, I was ready to give it a whirl, then........no audio. For whatever reason, this receiver doesn't transmit the audio to the television, via HDMI. You're forced to either use an AV cable, or a digital audio cable.

I'm not too technical savvy, but I'm pretty sure that HDMI was designed to do both & found it odd that it did not.

I'm not giving the receiver a great review because of this. I'm not giving it an unfavorable review because with a little adjusting, I can still use the receiver.

Be careful and pay a little closer attention when researching receivers for your home entertainment purposes than I did. I knew I wanted 2 HDMI in ports and needed just one HDMI out, and again, not being too tech savvy, I guess I didn't know that it split off the audio and video.

Hopefully no one makes the same mistake I did.