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Haylo, the guy's house I auditioned my axioms at, said that the onkyo 805 kept shutting down on him when trying to run the m80's. He bought an axiom amp and sent the onkyo back.

Not an issue with the m60's tho.

And another satisfied customer of 6ave!

There is just so much that is cool about this receiver... except for the owner's manual.

Rich

I can't remember if I mentioned this earlier in the thread, but there has been a longstanding issue with audio dropouts on these Onkyos when combined with DirecTV DVR receivers (don't know if that affects you or not). Short summary, whenever watching TV, using the FF, play, pause, etc. buttons would cause the audio to drop out for 3-10 seconds when you resumed play. Ugly! Some folks in other forums confused this with the lipsynch issue as they present themselves similarly.

Here is a link to a post describing the problem. I didn't read through the entire string to see if it had been fixed, so just do some research to be sure if this problem would affect you. I do know that at one point in the past either DirecTV or Onkyo released a firmware update to address the issue, and then one or the other released another subsequent firmware upgrade and the problem came back.

Either way, just be sure to research before you buy if this would make problems for you in your HT. (My wife would've killed me if my receiver did this after all the money I spent in that room!)

Onkyo has completely blundered the Reon implementation and interface, as well as several other quirks. It needs more weight than the Denon so it will sink faster.

Get the 3808. It’s so much more advanced than anything else on the market right now, there’s really no comparison. Denon has also been very good about pushing firmware updates for all their new AVR’s to address network and internet radio bugs. All you do it push a few buttons on the remote and it starts updating. If for some reason or other the update fails, you just do it again. This AVR is quite simply, bullet proof.

All that praise from you Mike gives me great confidence in my 3808, as I know of nobody else that has had the avr problems that you have had.