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I'm Thinking About The Onkyo SR605

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Robertc88

In Reply to: RE: Shopping list of products offering TrueHD, DTS HD Master Audio and HDMI 1.3 posted by 4season on August 22, 2007 at 11:31:43

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!

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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)
      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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