Review: Onkyo TX-NR5007 AV Receiver Review
Russell Williams gets to grips with the flag-ship Onkyo AV Receiver for 2010. Boasting THX Ultra2, Audyssey DSX and Dolby PIIz Technologies along with huge power reserves, is it the best AVR yet?
If I were forced to go back to a receiver, at least I now know that I wouldn’t be committing musical Hari Kiri and this was my most pleasant surprise during the 5007s stay. It’s a genuinely entertaining music maker, the proviso being that it has a enough features to completely stuff up this ability if you so desire. That wouldn’t be the Onkyo’s fault though – you don’t have to use every feature it offers and less, sometimes really is more. I do note with some interest that rumours on both the internet and printed press mills, talk of a stripped out ‘audiophile’ receiver from Onkyo. Perhaps someone in Japan has noticed that there is a market for a more music-focused-with-films-attached receiver, but waiting for such vapour-ware is often a fruitless game. Shame, I would be genuinely interested in hearing that one based on the current showing.
In the mean time, the TX-NR5007 is a technical tour de force that hit’s all of the currently required marks asked in it’s price class and sounds great across the board. It’s value for money will largely depend on how many of the features, for which you are paying, will actually be of use, but the big Onkyo is deservedly going to find itself finding a place in many homes on the basis of it’s audio performance alone.
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