The "Official" Onkyo TX-SR608 Thread (No Price Talk) - Page 121

That did it. It still takes a good 2 seconds to switch over, but at least I don't see a scrambled image. I also turned the processing back on - and it seems fine for now. I realized I lost OSD when I skipped the video processing.

I'll be hooking up my speakers soon - I don't have great speakers - my first home theater system - so I went with basic stuff. I have Polk Monitor 40 (front), Polk CS2, and Monitor 30 (rear). I've yet to buy a sub - lookin' at Bic America - just haven't pulled the trigger yet.

I'll probably be setting everything at 80hz - but will run the Audessey and see what it shows. Any suggestions will be great. This thread is awesome though - I'm reading through it (1/3rd way there) and it has cleared up a lot of things.

Sure, suggest reading the Audyssey Setup Guide if you haven't yet.

I've had my 608 for a few months now and recently just got a 50" Panasonic plasma (G25). I've been playing my Xbox 360 (specifically Red Dead Redemption) and when I have the volume up enough and switch to "dead eye" mode on the game (it basically makes everything real bright and makes a boooom sound) the receiver will shut off into standby and the red light will blink. I can press the power button twice and turn it back on right away, but it'll do it again. If I turn the volume down it won't do it but it's pretty repeatable at higher volume.

Everything is hooked up via HDMI. It didn't do this with my other TV

Problem 2 I have a TIVO HD and I get an audio dropout every now and then. When it's trying to correct itself I get this high pitched CHIRRRRP through the speakers which is really annoying. Some channels more than others. I'm guessing this is a signal problem from comcast?

I'm reading through this thread but if anybody could help that'd be great!

I just tried that a few minutes ago but I seem to still get the loup pop. Could it be a problem with my set up? Right now I only have a 3.0 speaker set up since I'm on a budget. I will be buying more speakers and a sub in the coming months. On my Onkyo my speakers are set at full range for LF and RF and center is 70hz. When LPCM is outputted I lose the DTS HD MA.

Didn't see a reply to this. Assume you mean will it upconvert Component in to Component out? NO
Will it upconvert Component in to HDMI out? YES

See http://www.us.onkyo.com/model.cfm?m=...s=Receiver&p=f

Did u run the Audessy calibration? It set mine to full band.

In have my Polk Monitor 70's bi amped and agree.

Not yet not setting everything up till next weekend. My CS2 that showed up with the 70's had to be returned. so still waiting for my center channel and my 2 lava subs should be waiting at the house for me today

Can anyone help me out with my HDMI CEC problem? It has driven me nuts trying to figure out what has happened, when it was working properly before.


I have also noticed that I have to hit the power button on my Directv remote twice to turn off the receiver. Of course this is only after i have to switch the function of the remote to AV1.

Thanks man, that's really helpful. I'm waitin' on some banana plugs to set up rest of my system.

Much appreciated.

Finally fired it up, couldn't figure out why there was no sound from the Center channel so I went in under calibration and when it cycled through to the Center Channel.. Pop, circuit protection, lol... then I realize that the crappy CC I have there is only rated for 40-80W and it's a 100W per channel receiver. grr...

I have a similar question - just got all the cabling and everything set up, listening for the first time to my HT system and I'm completely blown away luckily I have no frame of reference for anything better so I happy as a clam right now I haven't even run audessey yet and I am still incredibly happy!

I do have a few questions, though: I am trying to set up the passthrough (similar to the situation above) but I don't get any sound from my tv when I turn my receiver off.
I have my fios box hooked up to the receiver with HDMI, upconverting to 1080p (I haven't noticed any problems so far with the upscaling). I have the receiver hooked to my tv (vizio 423xvt) with hdmi as well. I know that the 3xvt does NOT currently support ARC. Is this why I get no audio when I turn the receiver off? I don't really need surround sound most of the time when I'm watching tv, so I want to make sure that I am conserving power when possible if this is the case I'll hook the receiver up to the cable box with optical or something.
Also, I am considering hooking up a PS3 via optical rather than HDMI. Will I be losing anything? I plan on using the ps3 as a blu-ray player and a gaming machine (obviously :P).

You'll want to check in the Blu-Ray forums however, if I recall correctly, HDMI or not, PS3 does not output HD sound from movie tracks...

Partially correct. The PS3 (or any Blu-Ray player from what I understand) won't output the HD Audio streams over Optical. It's a bandwidth issue.

The PS3 (Fat) will send HD audio over HDMI, but the PS3 will do the processing, and send it via LPCM. So, the HD DTS or HD Dolby won't light up on the Onkyo. But, you're still getting HD audio (hit display on the PS3 remote and you'll see in the top right what it is sending to the AVR).

The PS3 (slim) will send HD audio straight to the Onkyo, and the HD DTS or HD Dolby light WILL light up on the Onkyo.

Fixed it, found one of my under carpet speaker wires had been pressed into a tack strip nail. On higher volume events the wire would short and shut off the amp. Phew!

Thanks for the advice. I have it hooked up via aux in the front currently, and watched inception today. I saw it was feeding DTS-MA, I believe, so that's good enough for me. However, I will be running more tests with optical, once I get a few cables

Also, any input on the passthrough issue? Apparently now when I turn the receiver on with my cable box, I have both the regular speakers and TV speakers playing, and if the receiver is off I have no speakers playing. Weird!

I agree. Besides my fan making a vibrating noise twice since I bought it in august and not since then. I have had zero problems. I also bi-amped my Paradigm Monitor 5's and they sound awsome to me.

I have the onkyo SR608 and was watching a movie, when 3/4 thru a movie the receiver and the tv shutoff. Everything is connected via HDMI. I looked thru the settings on the receiver but didn't see anything explaining why this would happen. The sleep timer is off. It also does not appear to be overheating, not even warm to touch. Any ideas?

No, I didn't shut off any other components at the time.

Experts please advise on the following:

1. Why do I seem to prefer the Dolby Digital audio format being output by DVD's instead of DTS - Master HD audio format being output by Blu ray discs? Audyssey calibration was carried out and front speakers were manually set to 60Hz, center, subwoofer and surrounds were set to 80hz.

2. Music sounds great but movie dialogues are sometimes hard to hear.

3. Does my set up need tweaking / fine tuning?

My set up:

Onkyo 608
Polk M 60 (fronts)
Polk CS 10 (center)
Polk M 30 (surrounds)
Polk PSW 505 (subwoofer / connected via Line In)

Thanks.

1) Nothing wrong with personal preference.
2) Crank up the center if need be
3) Maybe ..

Thanks for the reply.

1. I thought Blu ray discs and DTS-HD Master Audio was supposed to be a better audio format per se than Dolby Digital.

2. Any suggestions on how to crank up the center?

3. Any suggestions as to what fine tuning / tweaking can be carried out?

Thanks again.

1) Trust your ears .. if you like what you hear with DD, go with it .. there is no law against it ..

2) You'll need to manually enter set up and manually adjust the Center .. refer to manual

3) If you are unhappy with Audessey, then you must either buy a SPL meter and manually fine tune, or adjust using a calibration disk .. or re run Audessey .. making sure you move the mic as required and that your room is dead silent during calibration .. all rooms are different, there is no cookie cutter method .. as well, you might take a browse thru the room treatments area of AVS to get some tips ..

For those of you worried about 'pulling the trigger' on a 608, don't, you will be happy.

I have had zero issues with mine and have not been able to see any evidence of any video issues caused by the 608's video processing.

My only concern initially was the seemingly high volume levels I needed to get a good sound level. I am always at a minimum of 50, often as high as 75. The sound is always crystal clear with no sign of distortion. It is just how the volume is scaled. Other receivers give more volume at lower levels, but I would expect they are just scaled this way and likely hit there max power out put before half volume as indicated.

By the way I have a Panny G25 50", Polk TSI 500 fronts, TSI 300's as front wides, CS 20 Center, TSI 200's as rear surrounds and a Polk 505 Sub. I also have a Panny BD 65 Blue Ray. I have a Shaw high def cable box. Everything works perfectly together.

I expect others that have had problems simply comes from their other components not working well with the 608. Luck of the draw I guess!

Well put .. and this has been my contention as well from day one .. I've owned the 608 since the week it came out with zero "issues" .. it's all in the set up as well as the components ..

Show me an AVR at any price that does not always play well with everything out there ..

ZREXER .. you might switch to THX volume .. I think you'll like the scale better ..

Is this afair upgrade from a TX-SR674? My SR-674 runs awfully hot. I like that this is 2 inches narrower.

One of the things though is that I need more HDMI ports. i just picked up an Xbox and my PS3, Logitech Revue and Xbox all are using HDMI ports (plus my laptop which I occasionally have to reach around the back to plug in

It's on sale at Newegg right now for $379 free ship. They had a $50 gift card with it but I just missed that :doh:.

Still seems like a good price though... what do you guys think? Is the network capabilities in the NR708 really taht much more worth it.. I already have logitech revue a PS3 and an Xbox so pandora, everything else is pretty much all set already. seems redundant to have network capabilities in the reciever itself. (besides, I don't have an ethernet cable by the reciever and I don't think it's wireless out of the box).