The item is sold out already!

Nah...my onky photo! Tune to KL FM

Staff deals only happen once in a blue moon...you be lucky if it happens twice a year!

From the feedback I gathered from those who bought onkyo from me..

1st - You need a tripod or stand and mount the microphone on top of it to get a definite tune sound from the program audessey!


2nd - The lower the ambient noise the better, so do the setup at night where most activities are minimum, switch off all sound source, eg fan, aircon and your wife too etc


3rd - Get the sub woofer range separated from the front speaker, which means if the sub cut at 100Hz, The front should take the rest above 100Hz and so..
Some may disagree this, and prefer a mix subwoofer, front speaker bass combination! This is true as no speakers are created equal and combining them will definately unique for each setup.


4th - The default is 80Hz but most people found 120hz is their best cut point

This post has been edited by maxovista: Aug 2 2008, 12:08 AM

it has been sometimes onkyo release av receivers that are able to unconvert visual to higher res.

You can start looking the 605 and above to have this features...

As for astro, you can feed the avr using S video instead of composite!

The purpose of upconversion is to improve picture quality! I never had the oppurtunity to witness is myself .. coz mine 505E is just a passthru HDMI switch!



This post has been edited by maxovista: Aug 2 2008, 02:23 AM

you can spray the 705 black if you want to....

The 875 got Burr Brown..

The asia AVR carries two voltage selector, you can switch either 220V or 110v! While the europe is a single transformer type fix at 220V. Why is that?

This is due to the fact that the Asia AVR also been exported to other part of Asia that need either 110V (such as some middle east countries) and like us Malaysia, Singapore 220v.

Japan and US models on the other hand, having fix 110V Transformer inside the AVR.

In term of material, the Asia AVR is much heavier compared to the Europe version since the avr carries extra weight due to the twin voltage transformer(extra winding). The Europe is middle weight. And the US/Japan is the lightest among all! You got to compare this within similar model of coz.

Then in term of material again, the US/Japan should be cheaper to produce since less material is needed!

OK, regarding power!

The power remain the same if you compared the 110V and 220V model, the only different shall be the current at the transformer side, once the voltage is converted to DC, all will remain the same inside the system!

In term of quality,

There are claims stating that onkyo Europe models are better in term of quality, the sound, the component and bla bla bla! But of coz, nobody knows how true the claims were! Even onkyo itself wont 'layan' such questions if ask to explain!

But if you ever work in a QC dept on any manufacturing companies b4, then you know the answer to this well!

If you got thousands order from Europe and only few hundreds from Asia... which one you take care more?

This is bread and butter stories....anyway it is just one person point of view!

Great to hear people enjoying the 875 performance....me waiting my 875 soon!

Thanks.. actually I kinda undeclared onkyo freak since 2003 starting with the TXSR501(rare species that is)...then early in this year change to the 505E!
But weeks back, some dude came to my place and "bodek" me on getting my own demo set as he cant afford the new set that I intend to sell!

Phew.. now i am onkyo "less" almost a month !

Luckily i got Marantz AVR to ease the pain..but it aint the same.. i tell you!

After all this years, i still stuck with 3 speakers upfront of my AVR.... still planning to do a proper HT setup with speakers at the back and flatscreen etc! I just cant live with too many wires lying on the floor...need to properly hide it underneath the floor or wall

Yes, regarding the discount bulk offered recently, no i didnt get mine thru that channel! In fact i got my own source and planning to get half dozen of 875 and one of them is gonna be for my own usage!

The rest gonna distribute to friends and maybe few will be sold here!

No lah! this thing only happen once...and the quantity very small...

How cheap is cheap....less than a 1k?

I think the AE is cheap enough... but it is not 1k

me thank you too

ha ha.. no poison intended!

My back hurts...that thing really heavy!! No mood opening any boxes tonite!

and this is why...

what do you expect... darth vader and 875 got similar character! Dark and awesome power!

And ladies never find them sexy!

This post has been edited by maxovista: Aug 30 2008, 12:35 AM

wah...8x5 may have a fanclub on its own now!

This post has been edited by maxovista: Sep 1 2008, 01:36 AM