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This midpriced Onkyo has the sound quality, the flexible features, and the design excellence reminiscent of a megabuck receiver.

Cnet Says:

Nowadays, when all of the better affordable receivers are chock-full of goodies, flagship models really have to lay on the heavyweight features to represent any sort of value. Onkyo’s seven-channel TX-SR800 A/V receiver is a couple of notches below the company’s upper-echelon models, but it still wows us.Yes, we rate the SR800 as handsome, but its generic look doesn’t have any defining styling cues. Fully loaded receivers such as this one tend to be fairly large components, and the 40-pound Onkyo is hardly demure, measuring 17.2 by 6.8 by 18 inches.

We found the SR800′s setup procedure and day-to-day ergonomics delightfully easy to fathom; everything worked just like we thought that it would. Thanks to the extensive setup-menu selections, you can customize the SR800 to suit your preferences and get the best out of your system. The big, comfortable remote is partially backlit, and its array of differently shaped buttons is nicely laid out…more