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New ONKYO avrs with world's first 9.2 channel and DSX
« on: Sep 01, 2009 at 10:51 AM »
Onkyo is launching the world’s first 9.2-channel AV receivers featuring Audyssey DSX and Dolby IIz processing. The models, which also sport THX Ultra2 Plus certification and dual subwoofer outputs, are priced from £1,300.

Top of the range is the formidably specified £2,400 TX-NR5007. Attractions include eight HDMI inputs (including one front-mounted), with two outputs; DLNA 1.5 networking with extensive audio file support (MP3, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, LPCM, WAV, WMA and WMA Lossless) and 1080p video upscaling via Silicon Optix HQV Reon VX video processor.

Naturally both DTS-HD MA and Dolby TrueHD decoding is provided, and there’s a DSD Direct facility, for SACD owners.
[Big and beautiful - Onkyo's TX-NR5009] The step-down £1,700 TX-NR3007 retains most of the NR5007's feature spread, but drops an HDMI input and eases off the power. Also in the range is the £1,300 TX-NR1007, which sheds another HDMI and Dolby Volume and trades the HQV processor for a Faroudja DCDi Cinema chipset.
[Eight HDMI inputs and two outs - enough for everyone?] Front is better than back?
However, it’s the Audyssey DSX modes which could prove the most interesting aspect of these AVRs. DSX processing allows for the installation of an additional pair of front height channels, and/or a pair of front wide channels (designed to sit alongside the main stereo pair). Audyssey advocates that the extra front channels are used instead of traditional rear back channels.

Chris Kyriakakis, the founder and Chief Technical Officer of Audyssey Laboratories, told HCC that the decision to expand the front soundstage comes from new studies into depth perception. ‘Human hearing has much higher special resolution in the front hemisphere than it does in the rear,’ he says. ‘If you only have a fixed number of channels, it is better to use them where they will have the most impact.’

Kyriakakis goes on the say that the home cinema market actually went in the wrong direction when it added additional back channels years ago.

For more on this, read our full interview with Chris in Home Cinema Choice #173 (on sale this week) and find out exactly what we thought of Audyssey’s radical DSX processing technology in our exclusive six-page test of the Denon AVR-4310.

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Re: New ONKYO avrs with world's first 9.2 channel and DSX
« Reply #1 on: Sep 01, 2009 at 11:00 AM »
wow, onkyos going networked! looks like the sr nomenclature are numbered, and nr is the wave of the future! pwede na yung 3007 ah!  ;D

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Re: New ONKYO avrs with world's first 9.2 channel and DSX
« Reply #2 on: Sep 01, 2009 at 11:04 AM »
Oo nga 3007 patok na ;) Sana ibargain na 876 ;D  9.2 channels,with 7channels in front para ka ng showroom ;D ;D ;D Haay puro pang dag dag gastos lang :(

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Re: New ONKYO avrs with world's first 9.2 channel and DSX
« Reply #3 on: Sep 01, 2009 at 02:40 PM »
wow, onkyos going networked! looks like the sr nomenclature are numbered, and nr is the wave of the future! pwede na yung 3007 ah!  ;D

£1,700 nga lang is P135,000. :o

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Re: New ONKYO avrs with world's first 9.2 channel and DSX
« Reply #4 on: Sep 01, 2009 at 03:25 PM »
£1,700 nga lang is P135,000. :o

the british or even european market are notoriously overpriced. so i think it would be around $1800-2000 for the same thing if it reaches u.s., so hopefully less than a hundred grand pesos, mahal parin.  ;D

 
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Re: New ONKYO avrs with world's first 9.2 channel and DSX
« Reply #5 on: Sep 01, 2009 at 03:27 PM »
pano kaya ako maghahang ng extra speakers sa harap?   ;D

buti na lang di puwede.  maybe in 2 years time makakapag-upgrade.
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Re: New ONKYO avrs with world's first 9.2 channel and DSX
« Reply #6 on: Sep 01, 2009 at 04:33 PM »
I've been thinking about this for a long time. Denon also has similar models.

First problem is that this is a brand-new technology and these new AVR's have a lot of limitations. They don't really offer the full possibilities of Audyssey DSX, which would be 11 speakers + subs. And since the tech is cutting-edge, the price is also bleeding-edge.

Second, its very difficult to position the "Wide" speakers unless you have a very WIDE room. Typically, the HT's I have seen are pahaba and this applies to my room as well. Audyssey DSX actually requires the opposite orientation.

So in the meantime, wait lang muna, think and research.  ;D
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Re: New ONKYO avrs with world's first 9.2 channel and DSX
« Reply #7 on: Sep 02, 2009 at 12:25 PM »
I've been thinking about this for a long time. Denon also has similar models.

First problem is that this is a brand-new technology and these new AVR's have a lot of limitations. They don't really offer the full possibilities of Audyssey DSX, which would be 11 speakers + subs. And since the tech is cutting-edge, the price is also bleeding-edge.

Second, its very difficult to position the "Wide" speakers unless you have a very WIDE room. Typically, the HT's I have seen are pahaba and this applies to my room as well. Audyssey DSX actually requires the opposite orientation.

So in the meantime, wait lang muna, think and research.  ;D

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Re: New ONKYO avrs with world's first 9.2 channel and DSX
« Reply #8 on: Sep 04, 2009 at 06:41 AM »
Lulumain ko muna yung 806 ko saka papamurahin ko muna yan.

Sana in a few years hehehe, next year siguro??  :D :D :D

Review muna dyan.  ;)

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Re: New ONKYO avrs with world's first 9.2 channel and DSX
« Reply #9 on: Sep 04, 2009 at 09:33 AM »
mga gents,

what makes these nr receivers much heavier than their sr counterparts?

thanks