Onkyo TX-SR606
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>> Hi, I'm Matthew Moskoviciak, senior associate editor
at cnet.com, and this is the Onkyo TX SR606 AV receiver.
Now this is an update to last year's editor's choice
award-winning 605 AV receiver, and Onkyo's actually
managed to make a good product even better. Now, check
out the design. It's pretty standard. AV receivers
don't generally look that great. Now one thing they did
change that we did like in terms of the design is the
remote. Now the remote is much simplified compare to
the other one. It has a lot less buttons and it's more
reliant on using the directional pad to go through
menus. Another big upgrade on this receiver is its
connectivity. If you look around back there are
actually four HTMI inputs, which is two more than it had
last year, and that's great because pretty much
everyone, even the biggest high def fans, should be
served by the HTMI inputs. There are also two component
video inputs, which is a little bit of a step down. We
prefer to have three. And there are plenty of other
standard def and standard digital audio inputs. Like
last year's 605, this also has onboard decoding for both
Dolby True HD, and DTSH master audio. And the video
performance overall wasn't that impressive. For HTMI up
conversion we were pretty disappointed by how
up-converted analog signals look. There were a lot of
added jaggies, and we actually saw some black bars on
the top left and bottom of the screen that were added by
the receiver. Now, on the other hand, we were impressed
by the sound quality. Overall, it sounded really good
on both movies and music. We did find that we tended to
like the sound on movies a little bit more than music,
but for this price range it was very impressive. This
is a great upgrade over last year's receiver, and still
an excellent value overall. I'm Matthew Moskoviciak,
and this is the Onkyo TX SR606.
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