Onkyo TX-SR805 (black)

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  0.5 stars

  "Has an Audio Delay problem"

  by SGRSBSKIER on July 25, 2007

  Pros: Great features and power

  Cons: Audio Delay

  Summary: This would have been up around 9 but there is an audio delay problem. All audio connected to it is delayed, it is about 47ms slow and that is after setting audio delay to 0ms on the reciever. You can test this by sending sound out of your TV to the reciever and have the TV speakers on at the same time and its obvious that the reciever is behind (you can test it other ways but thats the easiest)
  I thought I had a bad one and returned it after talking to Onkyo, and the new one had the same problem (I have tested the 804 and 605 and they were fine).
  I still cant get anything from Onkyo. They say there is no problem. I am not the only one experiencing this. You can find info on it here: post #9 is most helpful http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=875039
  
  I would really like CNET to do a review of the 805 and test for it.
  
  I have told Onkyo about the forum with many people noticing the delay problem but they said its not an official Onkyo site and is not relevent. If a major reviewer puts this in its review Onkyo will have to deal with the problem or at least aknowledge it.
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  Connecting a musical instrument to it is out of question with the delay, a piano keyboard for example you could press multiple keys before sound from the first key would come out.
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  Connecting a musical instrument to it is out of question with the delay, a piano keyboard for example you could press multiple keys before sound from the first key would come out.

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• reply by: jacgat55 on September 1, 2007

  Your ?1? rating of the TX-SR805 is abysmal.
  
  I tried your TV test.
  
  Can you actually hear/see a 47 ms delay?
  
  Can you actually play three separate notes before you hear a sound?
  
  I doubt it on either count.
  
  At a 40 ms setting in the A/V Sync sub-menu, I could not detect any echo or lip sync problems using TV as source.
  
  I experimented with the settings and found that there was a pronounced echo at 250 ms setting.
  
  At 100 ms, the sound seemed more like reverberation.
  
  At 0 ms the only thing I could detect was the SQ and placement of the speakers, the TV speakers sounding like crap.
  
  Another thing, you must set the A/V Sync delay for each input source

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• reply by: dirty55409 on August 1, 2007

  It sucks you can't enjoy the quality audio this receiver offers. I've had no audio sync problems at all with it.
  It's interesting there's a lot of people having problems and a lot of people just going hmm that's weird mines fine.
  
  I can't help but wonder if it's a delay due to the TV but like you said you've tried the 605 and 804 so that squashes that theory i guess, but my old DG800 Sony was really finicky with synching so I dunno receivers have so much going on inside it boggles the mind.
  
  My 2005 model Samsung 40" does fine with my 360, PS3, HD cable (all HDMI) and also my DVD player which is RGB and optical audio. What are you gonna replace it with? Maybe try your luck with the TX-SR875? only $1500 or are you gonna go DENON maybe?

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