Audio speakers setup

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Originally Posted by betterdan

I just replaced my HT-R640 Onkyo receiver with a new Yamaha one. If my daughters boyfriend doesn't buy it for $100 would you be interested? It works great and has 2 HDMI inputs. The only thing is it does not have a decoder for the new blu ray audio codecs. If you have a blu ray player that will decode it then no problem. If your blu ray player doesn't decode the new codecs then you can still listen to blu ray audio, it will just be in regular DD or DTS.

Oh and Rage, the RCA audio is red and white, the yellow is composite video.

I was gonna' say something about this- beat me to it.

DOC- great deal on a good receiver- BAI EET NAO!!!!!

I guess I should have said I would need shipping costs too. This thing is almost as heavy as Oprah after a Golden Corral feast.

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Originally Posted by betterdan

I guess I should have said I would need shipping costs too. This thing is almost as heavy as Oprah after a Golden Corral feast.

You and your Oprah comments- they're endless!

Originally Posted by Redeemed

You and your Oprah comments- they're endless!

Yea, and so is Oprah's hunger...

[crainger]

Word on the street is The Great Australian Bight will now be renamed The Great Australian Bite after Oprahs visit. ::

[Imbroglio]

not to sh!t on your receiver offer, but can't you find onkyo 508s for like $200 shipped? that would give him 4 hdmi inputs, full 7.1 lossless support and is 3d ready. i'm not sure what dd's intentions are, but for an extra $100 he could at least get a few years out of the receiver if he ever wanted to start a ht setup.

Well if he wants more out of a receiver then of course he should get something else. $100 for my Onkyo is pretty damn cheap.
My HT-R640 is more powerful at 110w per channel compared to the TX-SR508 at 80w per channel. Also if you have a blu ray player that decodes Dolby True HD and DTS HD MA like a lot do nowadays then you don't need the decoding done on the receiver. The 508 does have more HDMI inputs but for less than $20 you could get an HDMI auto sensing switch like here http://www.amazon.com/HDMI-Switcher-...2171397&sr=8-4 which would then give you 4 inputs total. I was using a cheap one from Gamestop for my dvd player and XBOX 360 and it worked fine.
Now the 508 does have 7.1 compared to the 640 having 5.1, I myself don't care about 7.1 and is why when I got my new Yamaha receiver I went with 5.1 again.

Depends on what he wants to do and from what I can tell he isn't interested in some elaborate system.

[Imbroglio]

i completely agree, it didn't seem like he would be. it's a great deal for your receiver if you were to get it locally, however, you add in potential shipping costs and that's where I was coming from.

[Sazar]

Originally Posted by Imbroglio

not to sh!t on your receiver offer, but can't you find onkyo 508s for like $200 shipped? that would give him 4 hdmi inputs, full 7.1 lossless support and is 3d ready. i'm not sure what dd's intentions are, but for an extra $100 he could at least get a few years out of the receiver if he ever wanted to start a ht setup.

Yep, what you said.

http://www.amazon.com/Onkyo-TX-SR508.../dp/B003BEDQQW

The 608's are what I am looking at personally to replace my older Onkyo setup (have 7.2 channel and all that but only 1.3 right now) if/when I move to a 3D setup.

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Originally Posted by betterdan

I just replaced my HT-R640 Onkyo receiver with a new Yamaha one. If my daughters boyfriend doesn't buy it for $100 would you be interested? It works great and has 2 HDMI inputs. The only thing is it does not have a decoder for the new blu ray audio codecs. If you have a blu ray player that will decode it then no problem. If your blu ray player doesn't decode the new codecs then you can still listen to blu ray audio, it will just be in regular DD or DTS.


A receiver would be your best option but if you don't want to get one then here is another option for you http://www.amazon.com/3-5MM-TOSLINK-.../dp/B00006LVF3

Oh and Rage, the RCA audio is red and white, the yellow is composite video.

Yeah I'm interested. Let me know...

Originally Posted by Imbroglio

i completely agree, it didn't seem like he would be. it's a great deal for your receiver if you were to get it locally, however, you add in potential shipping costs and that's where I was coming from.

Yea, like I said, this thing could make Oprah almost seem like a Price is Right model when comparing weights.
According to the manual it weighs about 24.5lbs so shipping should be about $25.

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Originally Posted by Imbroglio

not to sh!t on your receiver offer, but can't you find onkyo 508s for like $200 shipped? that would give him 4 hdmi inputs, full 7.1 lossless support and is 3d ready. i'm not sure what dd's intentions are, but for an extra $100 he could at least get a few years out of the receiver if he ever wanted to start a ht setup.

+1 million