Home > Consumer Reviews > Onkyo TX-SR805S 7.1 Channel Home Theater Receiver (Silver)

Replaced my Sony STR DA50ES, a great receiver for its time btw, with the 805. Bought it from Onecall on their Summer special. Absolutely amazing sound, great video switching, and the remote is trying to shove my Harmony 880 out the door (since I found out it's back-lit and learns everything!). I read the manual religiously and am continuing to find new stuff to try. The THX Ultra 2 is the real thing.
Man! It's really heavy!

This receiver is awesomE! It has everyting I could want in a surround sound receiver. The automatic sound mode detection is flawless. The only thing this unit doesn't do is upconvert to 1080p If you have a 1080p TV, get the TX-SR875. I always dreamed about having an amp like this. I can run all of the components from one control ( If you want to record via your satelite receiver or cable HDVR, you will need to use the satelite or cable box control, or you will have to program the applicable commands to the remote ) Compares to the Denon 4300 series and costs much less! AAAAA+++++!!!!!

Great receiver at a great price. Easy to setup and having 3 hdmi hookups is nice. If your looking for a great home theater setup this is it. Had a Denon 2803 which was also a fine unit but this blows it away. A few things to consider is this is one heavy receiver, if you have a high shelve or have to hold it while you hook it up you might call a few neighbors and have some beer ready. I have a in wall built in and had to use a small ladder with the box to support it while I made all the hookups. It also as many have posted gets very hot. If your in a closed in area you WILL need some cooling fan.

to all who have doubts about this reciver ,i would like to say ,check this out ,being married to my denon 3805,i listened to this baby and it was time for a divorce, this thing rocks ,the sound is crisp,and this thing has power ,all the sound feilds are just wonderful,to listen to,the minor things i did not like ,wasnt much 1 its 65 lbs,generates a lot of heat,and it did shut down my back up power supply,i had it pumped up with the sounds of toto ,in sacd,great reciver,as a denon guy if that what onkyo offers @949.00i am sold it has tru dts.and hd master decoding for the next gen ,after going throught 4 recivers in 3 years ,this babby is here to stay.

Looked at the competition and no one offered the combination of power per channel, THX cert., 1080P HDMI processing and # of diverse inputs, on screen set-up thru HDMI output, beautiful styling, and more. Also first to offer HDMI 1.3 so your ahead of the game. I am powering front and rear 4 ohm speakers (Magnaplanar MGMC1); though not massive speakers, it's a very heavy load for any receiver. You often have to go to multi-channel power amps to handle this load. The Onkyo TX-SR805S can be set - and is rated for - 4/6/8 ohm loads. Even Denon won't rate their products for 4 ohm any more! Front speaker output can be bridged or bi-amped by giving up some of the multi-room features.
The auto speaker set-up, "Audyssey MultiEQ XT", will sample up to 8 seating positions to obtain speaker output balance or you can configure speaker distance, gain, etc. manually. It did a great job but was a little off for a couple measurements due to the dipole radiation speaker design (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipole).
Sound quality really took a while to assess. The receiver was truly "unstrained" with center staging well balanced. I was a bit disappointed that the output required a setting around -20 DB to get the sound balanced I liked, as this was about the same setting for my prior receiver. Well, they're both rated nearly the same @ 8ohms but the clarity and musicality are worlds apart. Hi gain doesn't seem as loud when the output is clean and natural sounding. Output to the powered subwoofer(s) can be balanced for each input and for each type of signal processing. Speaker set-up also allows for L/R without a center and has features to adjust center-staging here as well. Speech in movie soundtracks, often difficult to perceive clearly due to recording and room acoustics, was actually clearer without my center speaker. An attribute of dipoles and the amplifier output.
Programming features for room customization are extensive and easy to sort thru with on-screen menus utilizing controls under the front panel or on the remote. You have a variety of audio inputs for each video input and can choose from a variety of video inputs for each external source. Best of all, after narrowing down my receiver choices, Amazon had a super sale and free shipping on the product even though it is relatively new to the market. Product link: http://www.us.onkyo.com/