Onkyo TX-SR604 7.1 Channel A/V Receiver (Black)

by Onkyo

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 30 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B000HD7FGM
• Item model number: TXSR604
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (45 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #56,957 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

Color: Black

Onkyo 7.1 HDMI Switching A/V Receiver TXSR604

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Receiver with HDMI capabilities, December 6, 2006

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M. Thompson "mhthomps" (Memphis, TN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Onkyo TX-SR604S 7.1 Channel A/V Receiver (Silver) (Electronics)

I bought this receiver to control a home theater system that includes a 32" Samsung LCD TV, DirecTV, Bose Acoustimass 15 speakers and an XBOX 360. I wanted a receiver that had HDMI capabilities, but allowed the HDMI video to go to the TV while keeping the audio with the receiver and speakers.
With other receivers you have to do some sort of "work around" to make this happen. Not with the Onkyo! The set up was simple and now I have the excellent HDMI audio going through the Bose and the HDMI video going right to the LCD TV. Sound is phenomenal across the board. Zone 2 feature is excellent too! I highly recommend this receiver.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent receiver in its price range, March 1, 2007

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A. Gaston "Gadget Monkey" (San Antonio, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Onkyo TX-SR604S 7.1 Channel A/V Receiver (Silver) (Electronics)

I don't think you can find a better receiver at the low price Amazon is selling this for. I am using this with a Denon 2910 DVD Player and a Toshiba HD-A2 HD DVD player hooked up through the HDMI and it works flawlessly. I also have a Samsung over the air HDTV receiver hooked up to the component and that also works perfectly.

The nice thing is you have room to hook up 3 component devices so it is perfect for connecting an Xbox360 or Nintendo Wii. The receiver also supports Dolby Prologic II so you get full surround sound on the Nintendo Wii and Sony Playstation 2. It also upscales all of your S-video and composite devices over the component so you only need to output component and HDMI to your HDTV.

This receiver has no problems passing 1080i over HDMI or component and I have noticed no visual artifacts using the receiver as a switcher. The best feature is this receiver can accept audio over HDMI. The Denon passes Dolby Digtal and DTS without needing an optical cable hooked up. The Toshiba is able to decode the new advanced Dolby TrueHD and DD+ codecs and pass them over the HDMI as full PCM streams. This means you get to hear the full sound capability of these advanced codecs without needed a decoder for them in the receiver.

The big question for many is whether to get this receiver or the Onkyo 674. The only advantages to the 674 are slightly more power which could be helpful if you have a large room and HDMI up scaling. With the 674 you only need to hook up an HDMI cable to the TV which will save you one cable. I considered the nearly $200 of savings worth losing these two minor advantages.

I found setup to be very easy with the included mic and the remote is decent (actually better than the ones Denon includes with most models), but probably something you will want to replace if you want an all in one remote. Assigning the video and audio to each of your Video switches is also easy and very flexible.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Receiver for this price level, February 3, 2007

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epsilon72 (Phoenix, AZ USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Onkyo TX-SR604 7.1 Channel A/V Receiver (Black) (Electronics)

After looking for an HDMI audio capable receiver for a while and finding nothing that costs under $1k, I was delighted to come across the TX-SR604.

As far as I know it is the cheapest receiver that can accept multi-channel Linear PCM through HDMI (the Sony STR-DG800 does NOT accept audio from HDMI, even though it has a few HDMI "inputs"). It works great with the PS3, and passing 1080p video through it works with no problem. Some have complained that it doesn't take component input and output it through HDMI, but if saving $150 means more to you than that, go with the 604 instead of the 674.

I have found the sound quality to be very detailed, and the receiver has a wealth of setup options for you to configure; although my "auto-setup" function did not work. That didn't really matter, as I was able to set it up manually with minimal instruction book reading.

The only problems with the receiver that I've found are: 1)It gets fairly hot, so make sure it has space to vent, and 2) There is no way to make the receiver take a 2-channel HDMI audio signal and convert it into surround with Dolby Pro Logic IIx (just use optical, coaxial or analog instead).

If you're looking for a relatively inexpensive 7.1 receiver with a wealth of connection options, you've found it.

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