Onkyo HT-S9100THX HTIB - Page 17

Well, I've got everything on order. Got the HT-S9100HTS, 12 gauge speaker wire, and close banana connectors. Can't wait for everything to get here. Total cost $734.56

thanks a ton.

should i get 12 gauge copper wire or the thx monster certifie 16 gauge one? both are about same price? how many banana plugs do i need? Do i need wire cutter or scissor is fine>?

Just ordered mine from Army Exchange 679.15!!!!!!!

Monster is grossly overpriced due to its name recognition. The most important factor in choosing speaker wires is the gauge - the 12 gauge would be a better choice. You need 4 banana plugs per speaker (4 x 7 = 28). Wire cutter/stripper will make installation much easier. Also, you should get a nice beefy subwoofer cable.

You do not need 28 banana plugs. You need 14. They come in pairs red/black.

Furthermore, you do not 14 pairs. You only need the banana plugs to connected to the receiver mainly. You can just connect the wire to the rear speaker connectors. However, if you want to spend more $$ for the other 7 pairs go ahead.

14 pairs? Isn't that 28 plugs?

They come in pairs so 14 is the right number. That's what I meant.

Go mine installed. Well I just set it up to listen to it. It was not loud at all and I was disappointed. But with a few adjustments and turning off audessey it is to my liking. Ill post some pics when my bananna plugs,speaker wire,audio rack and mounts come in. Pretty happy with it so far. And newegg does not mess around when it comes to shipping.

Just wanted to give a quick review for this system. I have owned for about a month now and I have to say I am quite impressed. Will post pics soon.

First and foremost the speakers are huge which I am sure everyone knows by now. I do not consider that a negative thing though. The automatic speaker setup is awesome. If you make any noise during the process though you have to start over from the begginning so ensure that does not happen. It can be annoying. I had to go through the process 3 times. Once that is finished setup is a fairly simple. I only have one complaint and that is you can not rename the inputs. Not a very big deal just me nitpicking.


The audio is incredible. For a HTIB it packs a significant punch. I suggest turning BGC on. It is very effective and produces a much flatter bass sound. In my personal opinion it makes it sound much better. Also I suggest turning the loudness plus option on also. There is a multitude of preset audio settings. The best sounding to me are All CH Stereo and Dolby D EX. When watching blu-ray movies the receiver automatically detects wether or not there is TrueHD or DTS soundtrack which is a nice feature. Older blu-ray movies that do not have that feature sound the best when using Dolby D EX. My only complaint is that the dialog seems to be a bit low. This is easily fixed by turning up the center channel speaker. The speaker wires are a very cheap quality which was expected. I do have 12awg wire and banana plugs but I have yet to change them out. Even though the build of the wire is horrible, it doesn't seem to affect the quality of the sound too much. As long as you are careful during setup and do not damage the wires they work just fine. Needless to say I will still be switching to the 12awg wire. I am a bit of an audiophile but for the average person there is no need unless you are worried about the wires that come with the set getting damaged. The subwoofer packs quite a punch for a HTIB. It is a large subwoofer so it looks as if it could do more. Looks can be deceiving. It still sounds great. The size just makes it seem as if it would do more. All in all, I would give this HTIB an 8 out of 10. This is a short review and very brief review so I apologize. IMO, this is the best HTIB on the market. You could get better by buying your pieces seperate but if you want everything right out of the box that is easy to set up then this is the way to go.

Does AS240B work with the sorround 9100thx speakers, if it need to modification, can you tell me how? what are some other stand with with this speaker, i most concept about the sorrount one, the main 2 front big one i just gonna put in the tv stand.

Well I went out and got everything I needed to install the system. Just waiting on my audio rack from bush. Once thats here Ill post some pics of my junk.

Sammy 58" plasma
Sammy HD/BR player
PS3
Time warner

Should come out decently nice.

After a good couple months wait finally arrived...

I spend three hours last night taking it carefully out of the box, reading the manuals, connecting the speakers (yes, with the cheap cable provided) and running the audissey set up... only to be very dissapointed with the power of the system.

I have a 5.1 Samsung HT72 in my family room that delivers as much if not more power than this 9100 and the components are half the size. I'll play with the set up again tonight and wire the room with 12awg as suggested. I just cannot believe that's all these big carcases can do...

Any advice on pumping up the amplifier, moving settings, etc to get more power would be greatly appreciated!

My setup is Samsung 63A650 and BD2500, DirecTV HD DVR, Xbox 360; HDMI wired; room dimensions 16'x45'.

I ended up having to adjust the volume level to the 99 and adjusted each speaker. I had the same problem after running audissey. I was like hmmm its sounds clear but Its not loud at all. After a few tweaks it was too my liking.

I originally had that problem when I ran Audissey. I reset the amp and adjusted the speakers myself. It gets LOUD now.

Speaker Type -
Front/Center 2-way, acoustic-suspension
Full-range, bass reflex 2-way, acoustic-suspension
Subwoofer Acoustic-suspension/Powered
Drivers -
Front 5" (12 cm) A-OMF diaphragm cone x 2,
1" (2.5 cm) soft-dome tweeter
Center 5" (12 cm) A-OMF diaphragm cone x 2,
1" (2.5 cm) soft-dome tweeter
Surround 5" (12 cm) A-OMF diaphragm cone x 2,
1" (2.5 cm) soft-dome tweeter
Subwoofer 12" (30 cm) cone
Frequency Response -
Front/Center 50 Hz–45 kHz
Surround 50 Hz–45 kHz
Surround Back 50 Hz–45 kHz
Subwoofer 20 Hz–100 Hz
Output Sound Pressure Level -
Front 83 dB/W/m
Center 83 dB/W/m
Surround 81 dB/W/m
Surround Back 81 dB/W/m
Subwoofer -
Max. Input Power -
Front/Center/Surround 130 W
Surround Back 130 W
Subwoofer -
Max. Output Power -
Subwoofer 290 W
Nominal Impedance -
Front/Center/Surround 8 ohms
Surround Back 8 ohms
Subwoofer -
Input Sensitivity/Impedance -
Subwoofer 330 mV/100 k-ohms

The reason why its not as loud as you like it is because the sensitivity rating on those speakers is a relatively low 83db or less. For comparison my Athenas are between 90-92db while my Energy speakers are between 87-88db.

You'll just have to get used to turning the receiver up louder than you would if you had different speakers. As long as it sounds good though, it is all that matters.

I'm the proud owner of a Onkyo HT S9100. Since a few weeks I have a problem with the remote.

Ever since programming my samsung tv into the remote it has been acting
very odd.

I press the receiver button, then the on/standby button and it just acts
like im pressing the display button on the remote. ALSO the volume
controls work BUT are backwards!! so pushing up turns the volume down and
vise versa!. When I've selecterd TUNER, numbers of channels 3 and 4 are
changed.

I have reset the remote (buttons RECEIVER+AUDIO till LED turns on (red)
and once again RECEIVER (LED turns off).

Onkyo support answered that they did not know the problem and suggested :
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We are not sure if the reset of the remote control worked correctly,
regarding to the instruction manual the LED should flash two times to
indicate the reset.
The other way could be to remove the batteries for more than 48 hours.
If this not working , please get in contact with service.
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The LED flashed two times to indicate the reset.

I've removed the batteries for more than 48 hours, reset the receiver, disconnected the receiver from the power for more than 2 hours.
Nothing worked.

On the internet the problem is also known with, but without solution.

I can sent the remote to the servicecenter but I'm afraid that they shall ask me to send them also the receiver. And then I'm afraid, I have for more then ... weeks no receiver.

Does anyone on the forum have a suggestion, solution.

Thanks in advance.

Greetz.

Get a Harmony...sorry, I had to. Can't help you on your remote problem. Hope everything works out.

Unfortunately, it's highly unlikely that you'll find anyone at this forum that can help you with your issue. Your best bet is to call a service center. Normally, for defective remotes, they'll just order you another one from Onkyo for you after receiving your return.

The other option is to get a good universal remote. I bought a Harmony One remote from the start, and I never even touched my Onkyo remote. The Harmony One is amazingly easy to program/use. Highly recommended.

dude, im a newbie.. what do u mean by direct setting via hdmi using ps3?

I have a question now. I ran all my HDMI's thru the reciever. But when I want to watch TV with the reciever off the signal doesnt pass thru. So I guess my question is what do I do now? I dont want to have to turn on the reciever every time I watch TV. But it seems like that is the only way to get it to work this way. Unless someone else on here knows another way.

Mine was just delivered today. Too bad I've got to work. So I don't think I'll be able to hook it all up yet. I still got to buy some stands.

Yeah, that's how it works. It's acting as a switch, and can only do so when powered on. Even plain switches, like a 4 in-1 out HDMI switch, need power.

So you need to figure out exactly what you want to do when "watching TV" without the receiver on. You just want to watch analog cable or OTA? Just split the coax and run it directly into the TV. For digital cable, you'll need to connect the HDMI from your box to the TV instead of the receiver and run the optical to the receiver.

This is what I figured. I probally try to use a HDMI splitter. This way I can enjoy the HD channels when I just want to watch TV without the system on.

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I just finished installing mine today. However, since it is eastern, I had to go spend time with the family so I couldn't enjoy it as of yet. I'm prolly going to have to recalibrate the speakers since the kids and the wife were making noise.

I'm still waiting for my speaker stands...hoping to get them on Monday. I'm trying to figure out how I want to connect my Wii. I'll post pics later.

So, here's the deal. Just got my 9100 from AAFES. $679...... Not too bad at all. Anyway, I have HDMI out to the TV as it should be, and have a DVD plugged into HDMI, the cable box plugged into HDMI and an Xbox 360 into HDMI.... Here's the rub, I also have a Wii with component cables that I need to hook up. I've got two options for component, one is a DVD in and one is Cable/sat in. If I plug into the DVD component connection, as long as I have the HDMI DVD player turned off it the Wii works fine, if both are on the DVD HDMI will take precedence. I think I'm ok with this, but when I switch to the Wii It looks like there is some Audio issues. Maybe the receiver is confused with the two different hookups for the "DVD". But basically I can't do anything more that a front speaker stereo/mono sound. I can't change to any of the other listening modes.

Wow, the may have been more confusing than it needed to be, but if anyone has been working on setting up a Wii, let me know.

By the way, watched "The song remains the same" last night. Holy Crap!!!! Really is a good sounding system.

My system is near complete just waiting for the center speaker bracket so i can install on the wall. Anyone got PS3 that can show dts master and dolby hd in the receiver or in the ps3 audio code, the tech support tell me it won't show since ps3 has the code but it play the codec, but i compare sound with hd and non hd in the blu-ray i see no major different in the sound.

As for stand, get the sanus speaker stand BF series, i got the bf-41 it fit perfect and look nice match color too.

Thanks for all the great information on this thread and AVS as a whole. I am installing my HT-S9100 in a room with no back wall. I have a shelf over the seating area that the Epson Powerlite Home Cinema 6500 is on, but when I put the rear speakers on that shelf at the height of 8 foot I can't hear them because the seating area is below them. The seating area is 12 1/2 feet from a 110" inch screen. Would it be better to hang the rear speakers on the underside of the shelf projecting down at the seating area or on the side walls projecting out? If the best place for the rear speakers is on the side walls, where do I put the surround speakers to enable 7.1?

I remember having a problem with my Wii as well. I think all you need to do is edit the source listings to get it to sync up correctly so you can edit the listening modes.