Onkyo TX SR506 7.1 channel Receiver

Audio (optical) is jumpy and skips on a regular basis. With two different converter boxes from two different providers!

this receiver whorth every penny i pay fot it, good sound, it was in very good shape, almos new. shiping was pretty fast, and it came in the original box.

i purchased this receiver to primarily play music, with movies on the rare occasion. this receiver was my first choice because it does 7 channels or 5 with the front main speakers bi-amped. i've never had a bi-amp setup so i was really wanting to hear the sonic benifits claimed was true... after a month with my new onkyo the answer here is yes and no. yes the system plays loudly, and very musically sounding. either way it performs very well. with its included microphone and set up procedure, the darn thing dials itself in perfectly. my equilizer i just bought a few months ago is obsolete, because the onkyo eq's each song, literally note for note to extract the best possible sound it can considering and calculating my room response, speaker capibilities and the music source itself. the good news is it takes marginal or poor sounding recordings and makes them sound very good. the downside here, after about 150 hours of critical listening, is it takes the great sounding recordings and makes them sound only "very good," equal to, sonically, the bad recordings. the question, then, is what constitutes "very good?" well very good is just that, better than most. the only few sound systems i've heard that sound better cost thousands of dollars more and include mcintosh or crown power amps or use big altec or klipsch horn loaded speakers. my goal here was great sounding receiver for under $300. mission accomplished. in comparison my last two receivers were yamaha, and pioneer befor that. this easily beats those plus the sony and aiwa i had years ago. at this price point i really feel this onkyo is way better than its compitition. rock on!!!

I love how the receiver works. It is diffidently better then the other receivers that I had in the past. There are a number of sound options on this receiver that I have not used yet. I encourage everyone who has a receiver or need a receiver to get a Onkyo please, because it does make a difference in what sound system you get.