Onkyo get my vote, excellent deals and very high quality kit if my experience is anything to go by.
I'm a couple of days into enjoying my 875 - & Jebus H creast does it weigh a ton!
Fantastic sound - and importantly to me with music as well as movies (which is not always the deal with their own lower spec models).
Seeing as how the US always seems to get much better deals than us and the UK is usually such a rip-off I can also see I got a real bargain (and no it's not a refurb). 3 year warranty & in the black finish I wanted too......and (for once, for me) from a B&M store up the road that I can take it to if any problems develop (although I can see it is a recently manufactured unit on their late firmware, so that should not be an issue.....but early units did have their problems, buyers beware!).
I'm not surprised there receivers are multiple award winners.
It's a real feature-heavy unit; the Reon processor in the 875 is a real gem for instance and the pure clarity and sheer power of the thing makes it money well spent as far as I'm concerned.
No doubt they are going to continue the theme but it'll be a while until I look again - next time I'm sure it'll all be about energy efficiency and lack of bulk, but for now I really can't think of anything I want that this doesn't have. The 905 has wireless networking but I really couldn't see me making any real use of it.
Have you ever tried an Onkyo DVD player? How does the picture and sound quality of an Onkyo DVD player compare to the Pioneer and Denon DVD players?
I've actually tried a Denon DVD player and I know that Denon's picture has more depth (objects look more 3-Dimensional) than Pioneer's picture. Does Onkyo's picture have the same depth as the Denon picture?
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Truth Teller @ Jul 24th 2008 9:57AM
Onkyo get my vote, excellent deals and very high quality kit if my experience is anything to go by.
I'm a couple of days into enjoying my 875 - & Jebus H creast does it weigh a ton!
Fantastic sound - and importantly to me with music as well as movies (which is not always the deal with their own lower spec models).
Seeing as how the US always seems to get much better deals than us and the UK is usually such a rip-off I can also see I got a real bargain (and no it's not a refurb).
3 year warranty & in the black finish I wanted too......and (for once, for me) from a B&M store up the road that I can take it to if any problems develop
(although I can see it is a recently manufactured unit on their late firmware, so that should not be an issue.....but early units did have their problems, buyers beware!).
I'm not surprised there receivers are multiple award winners.
It's a real feature-heavy unit; the Reon processor in the 875 is a real gem for instance and the pure clarity and sheer power of the thing makes it money well spent as far as I'm concerned.
No doubt they are going to continue the theme but it'll be a while until I look again - next time I'm sure it'll all be about energy efficiency and lack of bulk, but for now I really can't think of anything I want that this doesn't have.
The 905 has wireless networking but I really couldn't see me making any real use of it.
Roland @ Jul 27th 2008 1:41AM
Have you ever tried an Onkyo DVD player? How does the picture and sound quality of an Onkyo DVD player compare to the Pioneer and Denon DVD players?
I've actually tried a Denon DVD player and I know that Denon's picture has more depth (objects look more 3-Dimensional) than Pioneer's picture. Does Onkyo's picture have the same depth as the Denon picture?