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AV Receiver Reviews: Onkyo’s HT-RC180
The Onkyo HT-RC180 Receiver sustains Onkyo's reputation for suitable price/performance percentages, with a remarkable number of features which allow you to indulge in high grade video and audio. Unfortunately, this Av receiver also sustains Onkyo’s additional reputation of not being accomodating toward lower forms of technology. If you are planning on selecting this av receiver as a part of a well-outfitted home theater system, it is likely to do the job effectively.
In spite of this, we cannot endorse this av receiver to customers who uses a home theater desktop computer or an older video game console since the HT-RC180 doesn’t come with the multi-channel analog inputs important for a good audio connection with those devices. If you are agreeable to paying out a further $200 on the correct sound card, this is a quick fix, and yet for a device that already costs around $500 in most stores, that feels rather severe.
Even so, the Onkyo HT-RC180 Receiver functions beautifully within certain conditions, which is basically powering seven distinct channels in HD sound, plus it has lines for two self-powered subwoofers. Onkyo's HT-RC180 is THX Select2 Plus certified, which basically implies that this unit will consistently create THX theater-style sound within your household.
Having one HDMI output is usually likely, however for that cost it would be preferable to include one more HDMI output for a video projector. The receiver even provides the now-standard 1080p upscaling and also Audyssey’s sound calibration technology, so the sound coming from your speaker set will possess the quality most people have come to anticipate from an Onkyo product.
This device comes with five HDMI inputs, consequently it should be prepared to deal with virtually anything you would like to plug into it. The HT-RC180 additionally has a universal port which may be employed for an iPod dock and actually provides a few analog inputs such as a phonograph input for users who simply can’t forget about those old records. The built-in Ethernet port gives you full DLNA support, so it will communicate with your desktop computer, but as we discussed previously, will only work with the files in formats that Windows Media Player supports, such as MP3 and unencrypted FLAC. This HT-RC180 comes ready for Pandora and Sirius Internet radio as well.
Evaluating the Onkyo HT-RC180 Receiver exclusively on its sound quality would lead to a much better impression, although the shortage of multi-channel analog inputs or a second HDMI output could cause some frustration if you really want a comprehensive home theater system.
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