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Shopping list of products offering TrueHD, DTS HD Master Audio and HDMI 1.3

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In Reply to: RE: Receiver/processor choices for lossless multichannel audio like TrueHD? posted by 4season on August 21, 2007 at 21:53:07

Before I read Robertc88's posting, I started skimming various websites looking for any products which simply offered all of the features mentioned in the title. Of the bunch, a Meridian receiver would possibly be the most interesting to me, but they don't actually offer anything quite like I had in mind-yet.

Onkyo TX-SR605 ~$400 (2 HDMI input)
Onkyo TX-SR705 (3 HDMI input)
Onkyo TX-SR805 (3 HDMI input)
Onkyo TX-SR875 (4 HDMI input)
http://www.onkyousa.com/model.cfm?class=Receiver&m=TX-SR605&p=i

Pioneer Elite VSX-91XH $1000 (2 HDMI input)
http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/pna/v3/pg/kuro/product/details/0,,2076_310069789_463566618,00.html

Yamaha RX-Z11 $?? (5 HDMI input)
Yamaha RX-V3800 $1700 (4 HDMI input)
Yamaha RX-V1800 $1300 (4 HDMI input)
http://www.yamaha.com/yec/avreceivers/rxv_rxz.html?CTID=5000300&CNTYP=PRODUCT

Sony STR-DA4300ES $1300 (6 HDMI input)
Sony STR-DA5300ES $1700 (3 HDMI input)
http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&langId=-1&categoryId=27925

Denon AVR-4308CI $2500 (4 HDMI inputs)
Denon AVR-3808CI $1600 (4 HDMI inputs)
Denon AVR-2808CI $1200 (2 HDMI inputs)
http://usa.denon.com/ProductDetails/AVReceivers.asp

Companies that do cinema, but no products offering DTS HD Master Audio + Dolby TrueHD + HDMI 1.3
Marantz
Panasonic
Kenwood
Harmon Kardon
Cambridge Audio (Azur 640R looks like a very interesting near-miss though)
Bose (I was trying to be somewhat complete in my survey)
Linn
Naim
McIntosh
Mark Levinson
Bang & Olufsen
Arcam
Quad
Meridian (definitely some interesting items there)

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I'm Thinking About The Onkyo SR605 - Robertc88 04:33:50 08/24/07 (4)
Cheapest way in presently and I think many are considering going this route, at least intitally. I can go component to my display and go HDMI to this AVR.

I haven't seen it for $400 though. $449 is the cheapest I found, at least from a B&M store. Online it may be cheaper.

Thanks for the research!
- I'll probably wait awhile longer - 4season 11:44:48 08/24/07 (3)
  I'm hoping that Meridian will come through with some nice little one-box solution for me. After all, they co-developed the TrueHD format. Their existing stuff is not particularly cheap, but then I'm not planning on doing upgrades anytime soon.
  - I Can Upgrade Later - Robertc88 08:58:44 08/25/07 (2)
    If I choose to do so. Best price I can get at a B&M store for the Onyko is $439. I'd say this is a monster value at least at this point for being about to decode the audio! They will even give me a good price on the HDMI cable.
    
    The salesman I dealt with I actually was able to have a decent conversation with regarding BD and audio capability. You don't run into very many at B&M stores!
    - $439 Onkyo: What's the catch? - 4season 13:51:53 08/25/07 (1)
      For what it offers on paper, it seems like it's a fraction of the price of anything else, and even Onkyo's own #705 is a good $300 more expensive?! Wondering how that can be unless some corners got cut?
      - Wonder That Myself - Robertc88 11:15:59 08/26/07 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: $439 Onkyo: What's the catch? posted by 4season on August 25, 2007 at 13:51:53
        
        What Hi*Fi magazine ran a 1 pager one this particular unit in their last issue just bringing to one's attention what this player is offering for the buck. It promises to do a full review on this unit in their next issue to see if it delivers.
        
        I don't actually know how many folks on avsforum and the like are actually using this unit but I plan to do more searches on the net to investigate. Early indication from a few is the player is delivering good results at least with the PS3 when they tried it.

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