Talk about a love hate relationship. Purchased my TX-NR709 from Crutchfield back in 2012. Loved it. But that first one had a right channel PA failure and Dc'ed the woofer on a cherished Warfdale W35 speaker. Crutchfield promptly replaced it. The replacement went for a couple of years and it had the infamous Onkyo HDMI board death, Onkyo fixed that on the recall. Now it seems the HDMI board has failed again. There is output but it is not seeing the input from any of the HDMI stuff I have plugged in Apple TV, Roku, Amazon Firestick, or my PC. It did this once before a couple of weeks ago and unplugging it got it working, not this time. I can't even see it on screen setup menus. It is not worth fixing if I have to pay for it. Looking at a Yamaha to replace it, no more Onkyo. The Yamaha has all of the modern goodies this Onkyo does not have, built in Airplay, Bluetooth, Atmos. Etc. I made sure it does have a phono input. I am thinking about my Brothers Sansui system it has been going without a hitch since the late 1970's, they just don't build them like they used to.
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