ONKYO TX NR1000 owners thread... - Page 8

hifiky and joerod,

No, it shouldn't hurt anything to only have one speaker back there, BUT the THX Ultra2 spec does dictate that you have TWO back surrounds; optimally situated right next to each other.

Eric

eCost.com had the TX-NR1000 in SILVER finish selling for $ 3299.99 today - this is new not B-Stock. They had 4 in stock this morning and now this afternoon they sold out. Is that a good price for this unit ? I see eCost.com IS an authorized Onlyo dealer too.

The final price may not seem so good if eCost still adds their "handling fee" or whatever they call it. I ordered a digital camera from them years ago and the fee cut into the savings I thought I would be getting. I haven't ordered anything from them since then.

Brian

It don't matter much now what their handling fee was with them at that price, because they just put them back up at full MSRP of $4999.00 again. But even if the handling fee was $50, $3300.00 + $50 still would have been a great price.

Also one way to sometimes avoid the ecost "handling fees", is to go to their sister site pcmall.com. Because they are both the same place and offer the same products, and most often at the same prices also. But pcmall does not always have the handling fees that ecost has. I found this out when I bought my second Sony CX-DVP777ES megachanger. Because PCmall was almost $50 less total price than ecost was, as they had it with free shipping and no handling charges.

Check out Onecall. They have it listed as "Open Box" and always seem to have 1 item left in stock. Just give them up a call and they will sell you a new unit at that special price.

Also, they seem to have a sale on this unit every 2-3 weeks. Authorized dealer with full warranty as well.

I called in yesterday to eCost.com and they had 1 new TX-NR1000S in SILVER in stock and got it for $ 3299.99 + $ 49.48 ground shipping - no handling cost since I phoned in the order. Order was shipped yesterday and is on it's way.

I just ordered the DV-SP1000S in SILVER from OneCall at a super price as well.

It looks like I am coming into the Onkyo world.

Most posts to come once I receive the items.

I have the Integra Research RDC-7.1 and would love to mate it with a IR or Onkyo DV-SP1000. Unfortunately it's just not cost worthy enought for me to spend that much money when the HD units are around the corner in 2006.

I also have been enjoying my TX-NR1000, DV-SP1000 combo for just over a month now. It mates up really well with my Onix Rocket speakers and the sheer setup flexibility of the reciever has been great! Up untill now I have been listening to all my movies through stereo only. I was able to finally put togther a full 7.1 setup in a room in our basement and I couldn't be happier. My wife and I need to have her folks babysit our kids more so that we can enjoy other titles than Disney movies and the Thunderbirds remake!
BTW that Thunderbirds remake has some great surround effects!
P.S. Has anyone heard anything else about add-in cards to this unit. Room calibration perhaps?

I received my Onkyp DV-SP1000 DVD player in SILVER finish in 1 day from ordering it as OneCall always ships FedEx and it comes the next day. I have already unpacked and used my DV-SP1000 and I must say I am really impressed at many different levels.

The setup menus are easy to move around and understand
The build quality is very, very good
The picture and sound quality are very, very good
The looks are great.

I will be receiving my TX-NR1000 in SILVER finish tomorrow via UPS and I can only hope that UPS was kind and gentle (yea right...) with this 83 pound package as eCost.com typically does not double box their shipments - which I really hate.

It looks like Sound & Vision will have a review of the TX-NR1000 in their next issue. They have preliminary lab measurements posted in PDF on the Sound & Vision homepage under Equipment Reports. I'm not an engineer but the numbers look pretty decent to me. I can't wait to read the complete review.

Here is a link to the S&V lab test report

http://www.soundandvisionmag.com/ass...-NR1000lab.pdf

So my SILVER finish TX-NR1000 receiver arrived by UPS yesterday from eCost.com (for a before shipping price of $ 3299.99 and yes it was brand new, factory sealed, A-Stock) and although disappointed it was not double boxed, it arrived safe and sound with the box hardly scrapped or dirty (thank you UPS for not making it look like it went around the world and back).

After flashing the firmware from 1.05 to 1.08 (that takes like 45+ minutes), I got this huge unit into it's home and all connected and working. I have not had a lot of time to play with it, so more details later, but I really all the polssible things you can adjust, etc.

More to come...

Go to: http://www.onkyousa.com/download/firmware.cfm

Once you unzip the file, there is a .PDF file that takes you step-by-step.

You need to connect a regular (not null-modem) serial cable between your computer and TX-NR1000 (why they do not use the Ethernet connection is really dumb).

I used a Radio Shack 6-Ft. Serial RS-232C Cable; Catalog #: 26-117 http://www.radioshack.com/product.as...ct%5Fid=26-117

The Onkyo and Integra units were developed 1.5 years ago and I think they stuck with RS-232 from the beginning. I think when it finally was ready for production, the Serial connection had already been chosen.

Of course, USB 2.0, IEEE 1394, and Ethernet connections would have been preferable. I have the IR RDC-7.1 and it takes the same ungodly 45mins to upload the 1.08 file. And as bad luck would have it, my laptop is USB only equiped, necessatating me to buy a RS-232 to USB cable.

Other than this bother, they are just fantastic units.

There was some discussion of allowing firmware updates to these units over the ethernet port on the Net-Tune module. They might have had that in the plans and just haven't written the software to implement it yet. Anyway, I don't have that module for my RDC-7.1 so it doesn't matter. I'm just glad that they have made the firmware available for download now.

Brian

I wasn't aware that the Net Tune module was an option for firmware upload. Interesting, maybe that module will be of use to me afterall. Thanks for the heads up Brian.

Once you unzip the file, there is an MS Excel file that has this firmware history information:

Version # Date Notes

1.03 11/10/2004 first production version

1.04 12/3/2004 minor bug fixes

1.05 12/16/2004 Z2/Z3 RS-232 tuner commands fixed
Net-Tune updates

1.06 2/10/2005 Discrete Z3 IR/RS-232 codes added
minor bug fixes

1.08 3/15/2005 Z2/Z3 IR tuner commands fixed
Z2/Z3 IR Net-Tune commands fixed
Z2/Z3 front panel display changes
i.LINK updates
minor bug fixes

This post from earlier in the thread might be the one I was remembering. It sounds like the firmware on the Net-Tune module can be upgraded over ethernet, but I'm not sure about the main unit or the rest of the modules.

Brian

So I received my Sound & Vision June 2005 issue with the Onkyo TX-NR1000 receiver review and I must say that although the review showed good results, the reviewer Ken C. Pohlmann says little about nothing. Are these S&V writers that board with seeing so many receivers and processor that they must write about M1A Abrams tanks ?

You subscribe to S&V???

R

I got it as a free bonus for subscribing to some other magazines I ordered.

After having just read the S&V article, I notice they mention a HDMI 1.2 unit (current model is 1.1)that will soon be available. Whats the difference???

I like the idea of an upgradeable receiver as I have spent $$ every 3 years or so to get a newer better reciever (lower end sub 1000$ arena) and once I get some $$ saved up (just bought/built my first house) I'd like to build in a home theatre area and this seems like the receiver to buy.

I think the module might be HDMI v1.0. In any case, with regard to audio, it only acts as a switch for passing audio along with video to the display. It cannot process the audio for playback over the speaker outputs. The video can be from the HDMI/DVI source or 480p from an upconverted 480i source.

HDMI v1.2 is expected to add support for high resolution audio other than DVD-Audio. The additional formats would include one or more out of this list: SACD, DD+, Dolby Lossless and DTS-HD. The new HDMI standard is not official yet, so that's why not all of the details are known. A new HDMI module from Onkyo/Integra/IR would be expected to support all of the possible audio formats, because that would be the justification for releasing it.

Brian

I gotta give Onkyo credit, the TX-NR1000 did very well in the power output test in the S&V test/review. 133.7wpc with 7 channels driven is pretty darn good, and not that far off from their 150 claimed output. It's certainly a lot closer to it's "claimed" power than many other brands have tested at, when all channels were driven.

But WHY is it, that S&V is testing some with 5 channels driven, and others with 7 channels driven now?

Because last month they tested the Denon 5805 with only 5 channels driven, and this month they tested the Onkyo TX-NR1000 with 7 driven. This is the kind of stuff with reviews/tests, that really make it hard to do fair comparisons about actual outputs. Needles to say even with that, with Onkyo doing better at 7 driven than the Denon did with only 5 driven. It looks like the Onkyo probably has the Denon more than covered with 7 channels driven.


I just hope that Onkyo learned their lessons about saying things are "future proof" with their previous product like the TX-DS989 when they said it back then about them also, and that really mean it this time with the TX-NR1000. At least they used a type of design this time, they should help them in that regard.

Or at least as long as something like a new 17.1 surround format don't show up as becoming the new "must have" defacto standard it should be...

I am currently leaning toward buying this receiver. I was wondering if any owners could tell me if there is any UL listing or something similar on this unit? I don't see it listed anywhere on any of the pictures I've seen.

Thanks