Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Home Theater Any thoughts on Onkyo HT-RC370 ????

I just got a new toy today myself



Was $199 free shipping from Newegg. I'm going to use it for my upstairs/secondary HT. I't prob overkill for it but I couldn't find many AVRs that had OSD over HDMI in the lower price ranges.

Nice!

That's awesome, Ben. I'm very interested to hear from you (and Nick and others) how the network music streaming works on those models.

Ben, that is a great deal, enjoy.

You will be waiting a while before I will have a good feel for how I like the receiver vs. my previous Pioneer Elite. Now that I am home from my trip and the previous US holiday (Thanksgiving) is over, I am making progress in the basement again, but it is going to get tough to get to drywall before Christmas. I was hoping to be there by now, but dang, a lot has come up over the past few months and a few hours a few evenings a week makes for slow progress.

So far I like this thing. I've been playing around with the Android app that controls the AVR as well as makes it easy to use DLNA or content from other Internet sites (like Pandora). The functionality is really good. I wouldn't call it super polished (GUI is pretty lame) but I've had no issues using it yet. I'm pretty excited about it as I've been using this sweet Android app to control my Media Center PC for a while now, so now I can also control my AVR from my phone and tablet.

Since we moved into this house about 2 years ago I've just had a 3.1 setup (no surrounds) using my old trusty HK. I believe the rated power output of my HK is similar to this Onyko but the HK weights at least 3 times as much, heh. The HK is a prettier unit too IMO but that wasn't a concern for me when I bought the Onkyo as it's going to be running my upstairs HT from my basement equipment cabinet I'm building.