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Onkyo TX-NR7100 9.2-Channel AV Receiver $449.99
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The Onkyo TX-NR7100 is a 9.2-Channel HT AVR. It can run Atmos and has DIRAC Live. This is the lowest price I've ever seen it at.
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The Onkyo TX-NR7100 is a 9.2-Channel HT AVR. It can run Atmos and has DIRAC Live. This is the lowest price I've ever seen it at.
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The TX NR7100 stands out as a strong budget receiver for 9.2 channel home theater, especially if you want Dirac Live and solid Atmos performance at a low price. The deal is framed as unusually cheap versus recent pricing, and the receiver is praised for good sound, enough power for moderate listening, and good value compared with pricier RZ30, RZ50, and Denon options. The main cautions are the reported power limiting protection mode, no pre amp outs, and only three HDMI 2.1 ports. It also lacks independent sub outputs and Bass Control support, so it fits best with efficient speakers and modest power demands.
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But, the information on ASR is not kind to the RZ30 either...to that end they say the X3800 is just slightly better in performance...amp/power supply wise...than the RZ30
But again,one needs to consider the price points
I have never owned the X3800 either. I did personally own the Denon X4800 and got rid of it for the Marantz Cinema 30
Clearly you don't understand how ART works/does!
You should have already gone through the "weeds" for ART.
You don't have to rerun calibration for it!
You do understand that speaker wouldn't come close to 20hz right!
IF you have several(or just a pair), yes very good idea to have a sub(s) if you want to worry about what happens with 20hz content!
If you believe all this.... hmmm maybe you skip ART & stick to DLBC!
Especially since it does most of the work & you can "cheat"!
The irony here is, like this whole limp mode issue.
The people needing to get into the weeds with Dirac are the same, I measured and there is an issue.
TBH what Dirac's RC does, doesn't show up on some measurement!
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Assisted two brothers, one had Emotiva Airmotiv XT3 setup with a RZ50.
Brother followed suite with Airmotiv XT1 setup & this unit.
If there was supposed to be some limp mode kick in at some watt number, none of us ever heard it happen.
Those speakers aren't the most efficient and tend to like power.
Plenty of other owners that didn't either & they all don't have Klipsch.
I also got the cancellation email so I guess it's back to the waiting game.
In the conclusion he says:
"The amplifier has serious power limiting "feature" and even without it, it is not competitive with other products out there"
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I owned the RZ50 for a couple of years and never had an issue
I dont see it in the owners forum either and some of those folks have owned the RZ50 since its release in 2021 on AVS forum
However..just like many of these reviews they dont consider the price point of what they are reviewing
In the real world, I doubt anyone expectations of a $450 AVR fall anywhere near Amir's testing
This goes for the same of the Onkyo RZ30 and Denon X3800, which also failed in Amir's testing
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Reason for Amir's "do not recommend":
Onkyo 7100 – "The TX-NR7100 delivers "OK" performance across my tests. The problem as I have noted in previous reviews of this shared platform between Onkyo/Pioneer is this severe power limiting mode. I have to think it is there to pass UL regulatory tests and hence the reason it doesn't even tell you that it has gone into this "limp" mode. Naturally there is no mention of it and even searching online won't clue you in this problem."
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Onkyo RZ50 – "The amplifier has serious power limiting "feature" and even without it, it is not competitive with other products out there. Company can and should do better than this. I am confident a clean up pass with measurements can produce a better product. For too long review sites have done such a cursory job here as to allow these practices to continue. Hopefully that era is behind us. I know a number of companies are taking this domain seriously like the companies did in 1970s. So if Onkyo doesn't get with the program, it will fall behind."
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Pioneer 505 – "The VSX-LX505 produces average performance in DAC department for an AVR. But fails on multiple fronts in amplification. No way should an AVR amplifier have any kind of timer to reduce power. This is the third Pioneer AVR I have tested to do this and is totally unacceptable. I can see this helping them with power dissipation and unit reliability but it better be told to the potential customers. FYI when my own Pioneer AVR did this, I sent a link to the review to the support line of the company and did not receive any response. So I am not hopeful that they care either."
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Onkyo RZ30 – "What can I say. Nothing all that good. The power limiting alone is enough to make my blood boil. Do their product marketing people know what the engineering has done? Do they care? Even ignoring that, performance is average at best for a brand that thinks it is better than average."
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Denon 3800 – "I had high hopes going into this review thinking the company had seen the advantage its superior objective measurements in the past and would try to capitalize on them. Sadly, the reverse seems to be true with the DAC section taking a large step backward. Considering that the 3800 costs $500 more than 3700H, this is very surprising to me. Yes, inflation has a lot to do with that but surely the eye needed to be focused on making sure they at least met the same level of performance as last generation.
The good news is that the amplifier seems to be same design as last generation and has only taken a small hit."
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Guess which AVR doesn't have power limiting, is compatible w/the grueling requirements of Dirac ART, has an inaudible SINAD reduction from the prior gen, and whose value has only increased over time? That's right, the 3800! If your definition of "failure" is being in such high demand that you no longer see them on SD due to being 2-3x the price of these limp mode AVRs, then D&M is failing all the way to the bank!
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