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In Reply to: RE: You have peaked my interest... posted by Ole Lund Christensen on December 16, 2007 at 14:50:26
I had been about ready to buy a Denon AVR-3808 (~$1600US) without any meaningful audition, but if there's a chance that I can just walk to Circuit City and buy an Onkyo for half the price and get better sound, I'm there! But the 805 may literally be more receiver than I want: ~30 kg worth! I think I'd like something a bit smaller and easier to carry, so maybe a 705 for me too?
I don't want sonics that are TOO smooth. Right now, it seems to me that even through the small speakers built into my Sharp TV, the 24/96 soundtracks are more in-your-face, and have more "bite", and I kind of like that.
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I have now a written answer from Onkyo headoffice in Germany.
They write, that the manual is correct. The Onkyo TX-SR705 does accept a DSD signal, but it converts it to PCM.
So if maintaining pure DSD to DAC on HDMI from a SACD player is important for you, the Onkyo TX-SR705 is out, and you need to go up in price to a Onkyo TX-SR805.
The area DVD test also compared the Onkyo TX-SR805 to the older Denon AVR-4306. The Denon lost clearly in all aspects of sound. The new Denons are mentioned but not tested yet.
They also played "1812", and mentioned excellent wide and deep stereo.
Voices were outstandingly well done.
The Marantz was descibed with words like "poison" and "spiting" compared to Onkyo.
The text is interesting because Onkyo 805 have both more impact, more attack for modern music and explosions, and also more harmonic and fine detail for voice and classical.
It is very seldom I read such a review.
But other of the new Onkyos like 875 have also gotten outstanding reviews.
The weak point of these HT recievers is the small powersupply, if all channels play loud at the same time.
So my plan is to use the pre out and my big amps for left and right. Then the HT reciever will work much better driving only center, and the weaker side and rear signals.
Your room looks special. 8x8x8? I once heard a big cubic room, and it sounded very good, in spite of the simple minded claims against it.
My nearest dealer for the 705 is within walking distance and I don't think I will be taxing it very hard: I bought my first pair of B&W LM-1s, and even my 300b SET amp (7 watt) drives them effortlessly.
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