Onkyo TX-NR575 7.2 Channel Network A/V Receiver

I got this to replace a a 10 year old Pioneer surround receive with just 5.1 surround. My theater was built for 7.1 but it was only running 5.1 My old system did not pass audio through the HDMI so you could not get 7.1 even though it had back channels, those were for 6.1, rarely used in most sound tracks. I was wanting to be able to have Dolby TrueHD 7.1 and Atmos surround so this was a good deal. I paid about 500.00 or more for the pioneer i have 10 years ago and this is way better for half the cost. I love the zone 2 feature which is great to send audio to the game room with one system. The theater will drop the back channels or the height channels to send power to the game room but when you turn the zone two power off the back channels or height come back on. Not an issue to me. You can zone 2 out through rca channels out to a second sound system without loosing back channels but i like simplifying with just one system. I also like the networking aspect, this allows you to stream audio directly to the system with an app and your able to remote control the system with a ios or android app. You can control the volume power and settings etc. with the app, great for when you in zone 2 and not in reach of the receiver in zone 1. Plenty of power and clean audio. I really enjoy having so many HDMI inputs with audio pass through. My old system only had two HDMI's this has 6. My old one would not receive audio you had to use optical cables for 5.1 or 6.1 on that one, 7.1 or 7.2 can only be sent through HDMI. The setup and settings are done through the HDMI to our projector or TV is some people case, and its very easy to navigate. Onkyo made it all make sense. Some setting can be made on the ios app as well and that makes since too. Setup was quick, it first sets up with a wizard when you first turn it on so make sure you have your tv on so you can view the messages. And it steps you through the system as well checking your equipment connections. you can always go back and rerun the setup at anytime. I spent more time connecting wires and cleaning up all the cables than setting up the system to be ready once powered on.Much better upgrade for me and the technology is so much more advanced in 10 years and the price has dropped remarkably. Not sure why some say they dont think its a quality receiver, when i think right the opposite and I'm very in tune with A/V being in the business first hand. Onkyo did not cheap out. The $1,000.00 units folks are talking about, yea you get a great piece of equipment in that range but that's an overkill for most people. If you need simple clean power with some bells and whistles that put out great sound this will get the job done and fairly well.

This does everything I need from an av receiver. Setup was a breeze, took less than an hour from taking it out of the box to having it fully dialed in. Everything just worked right out of the boxThe sound is fantastic and has plenty of power for my 5.0 speaker setup, 4 Klipsch KG1.2 with a Klipsch KV2 Center speaker which is voice matched to the KG1.2s. I just set the speakers to full and turned off the subs, I don't need them. Then I ran the setup with the mic and that was that.The DAC in this receiver is really great, I listen to my music with all channel stereo now. There is no loss of quality compared to my high end DACs playing through the receiver in stereo and I get a fabulous soundstage. I have about 10,000 FLAC files on a Linux computer with minidlna and I was a little worried that the 575 would not find them because of all the blah blah blah about Windows Media Player but it seems it will work with any DLNA server. It found all my music files and their tags, Artist, Album Genre, and recently added, which is great. I just need to figure out the playlist stuff. It also sounds great with every audio format my Shield TV and cable box could throw at it from DD to DTS Master Audio.If you get this receiver definitely get the Onkyo Connect app, it is much faster than the remote for some things but is missing a few minor functions. Also. go to the Onkyo site and download the advanced manual. It has a lot of stuff you need to know.

Quality sound for the price, and decent controls with different sound modes and equalizers. Instructions aren't as clear as they could be. I found that I had to just try buttons and features to figure out what they do, but that's with most things you buy today. My one criticism is the CEC feature (also known as HDMI CEC, HDMI Sync, etc. by different brands/components) turns on other devices automatically that are connected to it at times when I don't want them on. Most newer electronics have CEC so that each component of a system can communicate to each, such as TV, game console, media player, receiver, etc. However, the receiver tries to anticipate what you want by turning on the first CEC compatible thing that has an input into the receiver. For me, that was my PS4 console. I found myself having to turn off the PS4 every time I turned on the receiver to watch TV, even if the receiver starts with cable/sat input on. It searches for CEC, and switches inputs to the first CEC input it finds and powers on the unit. I finally tuned off the feature on my PS4 and now turn it on manually when I want to use it. However, my Blu-ray player has no way to turn the feature off, so now the receiver switches to DVD input and turns on the player every time I power on my receiver. If I turn the feature off of the receiver, then audio from my smart TV apps (Youtube, Vudu, etc.) don't seem to come work. The feature seems to be needed for the TV to communicate to the receiver via the ARC input. Anyway, it's a small con compared to many pros you get with this receiver for much less money than competitors. I've this this type of problem online with other brands, so maybe future firmware updates will address the issue. I'm very satisfied with this purchase overall.