NEW Release! Onkyo HT-S5300...Any Good? - Page 6

Monoprice has 500ft of 14ga in wall for way less than that.
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that's a great question, because that would take care of my ONLY gripe with this system.

i have to say that i highly doubt it will work though, because even if you could plug it in, there is nothing in the settings to activate it for the EQ sweep. the 2EQ is not available and you only get a 2 band EQ and an audyssey compressor hidden as audysey volume and audyssey EQ.

however if u find a way to get that mic in. get a sweep going and some sort of detailed EQ going. i know which frequencies need a downright +6db i would love to get in there and tinker with it anyway.

Got my 5300 today! Woohoo! Its my very first Home theater system. Took me about an hour to set it up and another hour to figure out I had one of the rear surrounds hooked up wrong! Could not figure out why I had no sound out of the left rear. What a bonehead.

So far only have it hooked up 5.1 and it sounds incredible even though my side surrounds are actually about 2 feet in front of me because of where we stuck our couch. When we built our house 4 years ago, I ran speaker wire for a 7.1 system. I will break out the stud finder and the drywall saw this weekend and have complete surround sound. I can only imagine it will be even better. We watched Saving Private Ryan in 5.1 for the first time tonight. Wow that seen on the beach was crazy in surround sound.

Some notes about the system after seeing it in person (finally).
The Sub woofer is huge! Its dang near the size of a mini fridge and can really boom.
The front speakers are larger than I expected. I have them on top of Sanus 31" stands and they are nearly as tall as my tv.
The system is packed for shipping extremely well. The box is large but not too big for one person to handle.
The system looks very nice and high quality. This system is much more impressive not only in sound but in appearance than anything I have seen locally in the big box stores for the same price.
Read the manual! There are so many settings you can make that will affect the sound.

Overall I am very impressed so far. I will post some pics of my man cave soon. If you are on the fence about which HTIB to buy, I definitely recommend this one.

Quick question. I set mine up last night, but did not configure it. Are there any "universal" settings that I should enable? What I mean is, is there anything that I know I should definitely do to tweak it that doesn't depend on the size of room, speaker placement, etc?

in the setup utility, you can set your speaker distance from prime listening position, as well as level calibration to reduce/increase phasing.

the default cross over setting is recommended by onkyo due to the front speaker cone size, but depending on your room i would toggle that immediately with some reference music to optimize your acoustics.

Well I got my 5300 a few days ago and have been dealing with hdmi issues ever since. The receiver will kill the hdmi signal out or prevent handshaking to the tv. I have unhooked all sources and left only the hdmi to tv where I should at least see the setup menu when acessed but I only get a flashing screen of snow. TV inputs are correct. I have checked all settings... used 3 different hdmi cables and still no luck. Master reset does no good. Only after unplugging all power for a few minutes can I get it to work... for a short while. At this point it will work properly and change all sources, then randomly after a few hours if the source is changed all signals are lost and cannot be recovered... again. Until I once again remove all power and repeat. Called Onkyo and they were clueless.

When any source is plugged directly into the tv (mitsubishi 73C9) it works instantly. Just not through the onkyo. Also disabled CEC.

If anyone has any other ideas please let me know before I scrap this and find a different brand. This sure makes me appreciate how well my Pioneer SC-05 works in the other room. lol

why not try to get a replacement from onkyo before giving up on the brand? this happens at times with all electronics brands, sometimes people get duds.

that totally blows man... the way i see it is, if onkyo isn't helping you out 300%. being that you are a new customer, let alone of a new product, i'd prolly ditch them as well.
just let them know that you are at their mercy and if they don't show more than regular effort then just go back to pioneer.

this HTiB is a good deal for $500, but it's not THAT amazing to where you need to break your head over it on top of $500.
personally, in your shoes, i would have returned it by now knowing what i know about it and its limitations.

i feel your pain, i am in the exact same position. talk about disappointing.
i actually went out and got a second blu-ray player just because i did not believe that this new receiver would be the cause.

i have been in contact with support as well, although i had to call them because they did not even respond to my emails. the tech had no idea what was wrong he was supposedly going to talk to an engineer today and get back to me today, but big surprise he never called. i will post if i get back into contact with him.

I'm having a similar issue, although I haven't had any problems seeing Onkyo's on screen display. The unit screws up my PS3. I can get my PS3 working on the unit sometimes by doing a display reset (Hook up the PS3 with composite cables and HDMI, Hold down the front power button while the system is in stand by for 5 seconds). After doing that, I can get HDMI work through the receiver... if I'm lucky. After I shut down everything and attempt to turn it back on, nothing. I just get the Onkyo's blue screen. I then have to unplug everything and wait a little bit before my PS3's HDMI comes back to life, but it'll only come back to life if I hook it up directly to my TV and after I do a display reset as described above. When it's hooked up directly to my display (I have tried it on two different TVs since, it works just fine). Oh, and I've also tried using different cables with no luck.

So far it appears to work ok with my Direct TV DVR. Tomorrow I'll try my HD DVD player and possibly my XBox 360 to see if there's any issues. I'll let you guys know.

I'm really annoyed especially since I just had to exchange my brand new TV. Talk about bad luck.

Well, your posts are alarming

I'm ordering from the Philippines, I don't know how (un)lucky I would get. At least you guys have the privilege of returning your units to amazon/newegg anytime within the 30-day money back / replacement period.

keep us posted on these issues guys. let us know how onkyo is dealing with it as well.

Also, does it have a fan inside?

As a Mitsubishi 82737 owner who has had zero problems with this Onkyo I my recommendation is to contact the vendor you bought from for an exchange. Out of the box problems should not be tolerated or repaired.

I have set up my HT-S5300 last night. Everything looks and sounds great. I have my Blu-Ray, and Comcast hooked into the A/V Receiver via HDMI. I then have an HDMI cable going out to the TV. I have great picture and awesome sound. However, when I put in a Blu-Ray Disc to test the Dolby TrueHD, I cannot get the receiver to go into that mode. It only will put out sound in the standard, non-Blu-Ray modes. Shouldn't the receiver automatically sense that is is a Blu-Ray and output sound via Dolby TrueHD? Am I doing something wrong?

Is the player bitstreaming? It'll have to send the raw TrueHD codec in order for the receiver to sense it.

Which player is it? If it's a "fat" PS3, they don't bitstream, but they do decode.

I am using a Samsung PD3600 Blu-Ray Player. I guess I have to see if bitstream mode is on. Would that solve the Dolby TrueHD/DTS-Master HD Audio issue?

Just thought you'd be curious to what it looks like.

Also, I cannot get my friend's Audussey Mic to work on it. I guess it wouldn't if they don' put any programming in the reciever to use it.


Also you have to manually turn on the Audussey Dynamic EQ control if you want to use it -- which I did. I think it can only improve your movie listening.


Just annoyed I'll have to manually adjust the DBs of each speaker.

I only have my sub turned 1/2 way up (top of the dial) on the back of it, and it provides more than enough "boom" to my room. I have it about 10 inches to a foot away from the nearest wall. Boom travels to my upstairs living room.

If bitstreaming is turned off it should. If it is on, then you have a problem elsewhere, but you've eliminated that particular factor.

Thanks Tulpa. I'll make sure to set bitstream to ON in my Blu-Ray player set-up menu. Hopefully then I can enjoy the glory of Dolby TrueHD and DTS-MasterHD. Now if I could only get out of work to test it out!

Any other suggestions if bitstream is turned on, but still no Dolby TrueHD?

Okay, I just hooked up my Toshiba HD-A2 HD DVD player through my receiver and it worked just fine with HDMI. So far it appears only my PS3 is not liking the receiver, which really blows because it's my Blu-Ray/DVD player. I'm going to attempt to use my XBox 360 next.

Has anyone hooked up their PS3s to this receiver yet? If so, which model? (20 gig, 60 gig, 80 gig, New "Slim", etc). My PS3 is the 80 gig model.

Well, the other big trip-up is usually to see if TrueHD is actually selected in the DVD menu. The receiver shouldn't really need anything enabled if everything is hooked up correctly.

Also, if you're running it as 7.1 and you're using a TrueHD disc that only has 5.1, you'll probably see ProLogicIIx displayed. It needs to do that with any 5.1 discs to get the surround backs to produce sound. If you hit the display button on the remote, it should say TrueHD momentarily, then go back to ProLogicIIx. If it's a 7.1 disc, it should display TrueHD all the time.

My slim 120GB works great so far. Just tried it on my lunch break w/ a game. Haven't tried a blu-ray movie yet, but will when I get home.

Yea the disc may have TrueHD on it, but might not default to it. I guess WB has a problem of defaulting to the lower quality track on it's discs.

I played TDK last night and had to manually put it to TrueHD audio. However, one I did the "True HD" text came on the receiver display immediately. Also, TDK is only 5.1, but it still shows up on the receiver as
TrueHD signal all the time, not PrologicIIx.

That's good to hear. I may end up getting a slim eventually just so I can have a PS3 on each of my TVs.

I have been trouble shooting all morning and I got my PS3 working by an obvious solution that I should have tried a long time ago. I have only been testing my stuff through the receiver's first HDMI Input. I've tested my Direct TV through that Input. Works great. My HD DVD player through the first input. Works great. My PS3, it doesn't like that input for some reason. Since two of the three devices I had tried worked, I just assumed my PS3 was not not going to work with the receiver. Well, I plugged my PS3 into the receiver's 4th input and it works fine. Now I'm really confused, but happy at the same time.

What do you think would cause this? You would think if one device wouldn't work in the input, then no devices would work in the input.

What exactly is wrong with the PS3 to the receiver connection?

I also have the 80 gig PS3 that I use as my blu-ray player so hopefully this is not a widespread problem because I was looking into purchasing the 5300 also.

Basically, my PS3 would not display a picture when I had it hooked up through the receiver. I just got a blank blue picture that the receiver outputs. Then when I would attempt to hook my PS3 directly to my TV, it wouldn't work through HDMI and I would have to do a display reset. I know for sure it's not the PS3 because once I did the display reset, it worked fine, on both of my TVs.

I finally got the PS3 working through the receiver's fourth HDMI input (I haven't tried inputs 2 or 3 yet). For some reason my PS3 wasn't working in the receiver's first HDMI input, but all my other stuff was. Very strange.

They may have changed that. Past receivers reportedly would show up as ProLogicIIx on non-7.1 material. The ProLogicIIz receivers might have TrueHD displayed all the time. *shrug*

Hmm...I had some problems with the first input, too, but I was using my cable box. It was only displaying 480p and messing up if I changed the channel to something using a different resolution. I looked in the settings and I had it set to upconvert instead of auto, switched to auto, and it worked magically. Maybe something in the upconversion that the first port doesn't like? Just a wild guess/shot in the dark kind of thing...

The HT-S5300 upconvert video?