The "Official" Onkyo TX-SR608 Thread (No Price Talk) - Page 169

Originally Posted by porschedrifter

Actually that was part of my question I forgot to add

What optimizations does the latest firmware provide?

Originally Posted by jonnythan

The chances you'd be able to notice the difference between your receiver's DAC and a $20,000 DAC are pretty much zero.

Originally Posted by carageuw

Then why is there still a market for $20,000 DACs?

Originally Posted by HDKing

Tried using the updated Netflix app on 360 and the sound is VERY low. I normally game with the volume at 35, but I need to turn it up to 45-50 in order to hear anything on Netflix. Any ideas?

Originally Posted by 4o66

I have the following setup:

Onkyo TX-SR608, Sony BDP-BX38 BluRay player, and LG 55LV4400 LED LCD TV

Everything except the TV is in rack in the kitchen pantry. When the house was built, 2 coax lines were run from the pantry to the wall were the tv sits.
House was build 20 years ago.

I am now trying to get this setup for HDMI, for BluRay playback and upgrading to HD on FIOS.

The path from pantry to TV is about 35 feet. I have a 40 foot 22 AWG HDMI cable, the unpowered HDMI extender (part 2849, usese MAX3814), and a 6 foot 24 AWG HDMI cable, all from monoprice.

I also have a 3 foot 24 AWG HDMI cable connecting the BluRay to the Onkyo.

If I run the 40 HDMI cable directly from the BluRay player, to the extender, to the 6 foot cable, and into the LG LCD, it works great, up to 1080P. (TV reports 1080P/24Hz).
If I run the same cable setup from the Onkyo, I can see the upconverted signal from FIOS STB, and VCR just fine, and the TV reports getting 1080P/60Hz.

When I try to play BluRay thru the Onkyo, I can hear the audio cutting in and out, and see the HDMI indicator on the Onky flashing. The LG will show a purple, green or blue screen, and will drop to 480P. I will get audio back after a few seconds.

If I move the TV next to the rack, and run the 6 footer directly from the Onkyo to the TV, everything works just fine.

Any ideas? I have already tried turning off video processing on the Onkyo, and setting monitor out to through.

Originally Posted by lembrey

Can someone clarify speaker layout for me? Right now I have;
Fronts - Monitor 60
Surrounds, rear surrounds, center and Sub - Boston Acoustics MCS 95

When I do the Audessy test it indicates I could also add front highs, or front wides? I thought my current set-up was the max speaker positions the 608 could handle? I thought I had to choose only one set from front high, front wide or rear surrounds? Can someone clarify?

I have a pair of Monitor30 speakers on the way, would I be best putting them as surrounds or rears? Depending on the question above, then I could move the MCS95 up front high..?

Originally Posted by token2k6

Well guys, I am fortunate enough to get a second hand 12" JBL powered subwoofer from my father to hook it up as a second to this unit. I'm very excited, but haven't even ran the cables yet! Originally, there is a 10" Paradigm (?) sub hooked up by the HT company. Does it matter if that remains my primary since the JBL is bigger in size? Are there any precautions/recommendations I should consider? Really want to get this cranking and challenge the structural integrity of my house

Originally Posted by Darth Bawl

here I can answer my own question. Apparently you can just use an Audio Only input such as TV/CD. For anyone else wondering, this is from the RC260 manual...

Recording Separate AV Sources
Here you can record audio and video from completely
separate sources, allowing you to overdub audio onto your
video recordings. This function takes advantage of the fact
that when an audio-only input source (TV/CD) is selected,
the video input source remains unchanged.

Originally Posted by texagjosh

Bought this receiver in March '11. Was very, very, very pleased with it until we started getting odd HDMI glitches in September. Sometimes we would skip forward on a DVR recording and suddenly we'd be hit with white noise out of the system at 120dB. The only option to stop it was to turn the damned thing off and restart it.

That happened a couple times. I thought it was an issue with handshake between the UVerse box and the Onkyo. No big deal so long as it wasn't a frequent occurrence.

Then the HDMI started getting flakey everywhere. First the DVD HDMI port wouldn't function at all, but I worked around that by moving the BR to another HDMI input. Then the UVerse HDMI got flakey and wouldn't work. But I worked around that.

Then the whole damned HDMI board went caput. Nothing would process through HDMI whatsoever. 8 months of having the 608 and it already had the HDMI board die. Ridiculous.

It's been in the shop since Nov 18 with no response from Onkyo on availability of that HDMI board. The shop guy tells me this is common with year-old models and that the board is likely out of production, at which point I will have to fight Onkyo for a replacement.

I know this has happened to quite a few folks on here. What's the plan of attack? Should I push for an NR609 or something else? I don't want to deal with HDMI bs again if I can avoid it. I'm almost to the point of dropping the Onkyo brand and moving to a Yamaha Aventage or Pioneer Elite.

Originally Posted by cg27288

Hi,

I have no idea what the Audio --> Audio Selector option does. In it I see Analog or OPT as options. I'm running an external DAC through this particular input so is there a 'preferred' setting for that?

My DAC is connected to my Onkyo via RCA cables so I'm not quite sure I understand why OPT is even an option?

Thanks!
CG