Home > Consumer Reviews > Onkyo TX-SR606 7.1 Channel Home Theater Receiver (Black)

Please don't buy this receiver. I just bought one and had to return it because it was dropping the video signal when running the component video through the receiver. Video goes fine as long as I don't run it through the receiver... Not a cable or any other type of problem... a real shame because of all the features the thing has. It sounds great, but that's pretty pointless if the image randomly drops off while watching a movie, Netflix, or playing Wii!! Thankfully, I got a refund, but it wasn't worth taking the chance with a replacement receiver...

Be prepared to wait for 10-15 min before you can hope to get someone on the phone. Cust. Service by itself seemed quite knowledgeable and very helpful.

Although product is easy to hookup, the manual isn't the easiest one to decipher and work with.

Liked the product so far.

Amazon makes it so easy to do Christmas Shopping for the hard to get person. (who this was for) The wish list is great!

I love the receiver, it does everything I had wanted it to do and more.

My only complaint is with Amazon: It was super fast shipping no complaints there, but what is going through their minds when they ship a 500 dollar receiver in the original mfg carton?

I was out of town when it was shipped, my wife worked that day till 8PM according to Fedex's tracking report it was dropped off at my doorstep at 11am. So I have this $500 (retail) receiver sitting on my front porch (for 9 hours) in a box with very large bold print all over it that says ONKYO TX-SR606 A/V Receiver. So in other words I have a package from amazon that has a flashing neon sign that says steal me written all over it.

Seriously how hard would it be to put it in another box that is plain?

Don't get me wrong, the sound quality is great and the features are plentiful, but this thing's screen looks horrible and that's a factor that matters to me. If you're hiding it in a closet, fine. But I have to look at it under my TV and the one line of green text reminds me of my desktop calculator. It's 2008, Onkyo! Frankly at any price point, a receiver's screen should be better looking and more useful. Heavily abbreviated text on something as physically large as this thing boggles my mind. The pixels that make up the letters are measurable on a standard 5th grader's ruler. I realize that there is an on-screen menu, and it's pretty good. The major downside of it is, Onkyo uses its proprietary nomenclature to label menus and tools yet doesn't define what it means. Why not call it what it really is and then put a subtitle with the Onkyo name?

I have a Samsung TV that communicates with the Onkyo over HDMI. So if I turn the volume up with my TV remote, the receiver's volume actually goes up. Not bad. If I turn my TV off w/the Samsung's remote, the receiver automatically turns off too. The problem here is, if I turn my TV on with it's remote, the Onkyo turns on and stupidly flips to Game mode, not Cable/Sat mode. There is no HDMI cable in the Game port! All HDMI ports are properly associated with the corresponding unit. I don't get why it defaults to Game mode when Cable/Sat is the only HDMI with data coming through it?

Also, when I turn off the Onkyo either manually or via hitting the power button on my TV's remote, sometimes a loud, screeching sound comes from my TV speakers (which are "blocked" from working for some reason by the Onkyo, and nobody can figure out why). This didn't happen with my previous receiver. I haven't replicated it on another TV because I don't have another HDMI-capable TV. In fact, one TV is enough.

Finally, it gets HOT!

So, I'm going to send this back and go for something else. If you don't care about looks and common sense user interface planning, then this is the budget receiver for you! It does have great sound quality but I just have no tolerance for things that could have been done to enhance the user experience for next to nothing, and weren't.