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Well, you needen't plan on taking a long weekend! Cuz the Onkyo manual is quite intuitive, and very simple and easy to set up!

I'll bet Rat has already downloaded and memorized the manual. Enjoy the fun, Rat!

Yup!.....I did the same!!

Who dosen't? I thought that was normal

It really is becoming "normal" at that!!

Almost second nature nowadays!

My wife has even picked up on it for all kinds of her stuff!

Come to think about it, it's getting so bad that I may need to download a manual for a printer paper maker!!

bug: LOL!!! Yes, I had downloaded and read the manual before I ordered the Onkyo. It is about 100 pages so I don't have it memorized, but I have read the setup section a couple of times.

I had a great time last year.

After we moved into this house we soon realized that:

No.1 Our TV was too small.

No.2 Our speakers were too small.

No.3 Our DVD player didn't hold enough DVDs

And

No.4 Our receiver didn't have enough poopie for our larger listening room.

So....We got all that stuff.....all At Once!!!

I downloaded all the manuals all at the same time and tried to keep everything straight while trying to learn all the intricacies of each piece of equipment, concurrently!!

Talk about "Brain Stalls"!!!

Looking back on it, it went together fairly well, but I don't think I'd recommend folks attack such a monster lightly!!

Took more than one ink cartridge and a pack of paper!! Whew, what a hoot!
Rich.

Sounds like you had a lot of fun!!

LOL!!!

Hooked up the Onkyo this afternoon and went through the setup procedures with the included microphone. I did not reset the receiver from 8 ohms to 4 ohms for the M80s. I understand that people do not do this. I didn't program the remote because I have a Harmony 880 coming. The wife said why don't we get one as a Wedding Anniversary present from us to us. She didn't have to ask twice!!!!

I do have a question for Onkyo users. I have both the optical (audio) and regular two channel output from my Sony HDTV connected to video 2 input of the Onkyo. As I switch between TV stations, I get audio on all of the stations and the receiver display changes as the audio format changes. I know that I need to read the manual another couple of times to fully understand what is happening. Twice is not enough!!!!

Now for the question, I can't get very loud audio. It is almost like I have lost 10-20 dB somewhere in the setup. Even with full Onkyo volume of +6 dB (on the dial), the sound is not very loud.

What have I done wrong in the setup?

Hmmmmm....

Dunno...is that low vol on all inputs or just the cable?

I am running mine in a similar fashion with the digital audio also coming from the TV for cable audio, but am getting nearly the same audio level from all the other inputs.

The connections to the TV were more confusing than to the Onkyo, uh, not confusing, just less intuitive.

My current set-up runs the DVD direct to the Onkyo on digital coax 2 and cable from the TV on digital coax 1 with analog inputs from the PS2 and X-box from the TV, and analog to the Onkyo from the CD.

All about the same; mor'n my ears can handle!!

If you weren't changing formats on different channels we might assume you were getting analog from the TV.(which IS somewhat lower in my situation!)

I have an older generation Onkyo with fewer bells and whistles, but I'd suspect they should both program about the same. Although I didn't use the auto-set-up with the mic, I couldn't imagine that that's the problem, however.....

Yeah, at +6; unless you were set up in Yankee Stadium....
Rich.