...in the past 48 hours, having taken my Onkyo TX-SR875 receiver out of the system for the first time in two years, carted it down to GenServe in Swindon to have its firmware upgraded and then reinstalled it:
1) Lots of plugging and unplugging creates an amazing rat's nest behind the system, usually including at least three cables not connected to anything at either end.
2) My TX-SR875, which came direct from Onkyo Europe, is such an early one it doesn't have a serial number!
3) Richard and his crew at GenServe couldn't have been more helpful, turning the receiver round in a few hours even though they had to change the microprocessor board to get it to accept the latest firmware! Once they'd got over the suprise and the odd sideways glance at the lack of a serial number, that is... Oh, and they returned it rather cleaner than it went in.
4) Sky HD sent direct to a 50in plasma, with stereo sound fed direct to a NaimUniti – the temporary measure while the receiver was out of the system – is really rather acceptable.
5) I'd forgotten how heavy the Onkyo is, and how much less wieldy it is out of the box compared to packed.
6) I'd also forgotten how much tweaking I had to do from the standard Audyssey settings to get the sound just as I like it.
7) Note to self: if you have to do this again, label all the cables with bits of masking tape, and write down all the settings. Onkyo actually supplies sticky labels for just this purpose – found them in the box when I got it down from the loft. Hmmmm...
8) Now I've got all these new picture settings for the Onkyo's Reon system, I feel an evening with some calibration discs coming on.
9) I used to have a colleague who commuted into the office from somewhere down near Bath, up and down the M4 every day. He must have been crackers.
10) That's it – just wanted to share...
1) Lots of plugging and unplugging creates an amazing rat's nest behind the system, usually including at least three cables not connected to anything at either end.
2) My TX-SR875, which came direct from Onkyo Europe, is such an early one it doesn't have a serial number!
3) Richard and his crew at GenServe couldn't have been more helpful, turning the receiver round in a few hours even though they had to change the microprocessor board to get it to accept the latest firmware! Once they'd got over the suprise and the odd sideways glance at the lack of a serial number, that is... Oh, and they returned it rather cleaner than it went in.
4) Sky HD sent direct to a 50in plasma, with stereo sound fed direct to a NaimUniti – the temporary measure while the receiver was out of the system – is really rather acceptable.
5) I'd forgotten how heavy the Onkyo is, and how much less wieldy it is out of the box compared to packed.
6) I'd also forgotten how much tweaking I had to do from the standard Audyssey settings to get the sound just as I like it.
7) Note to self: if you have to do this again, label all the cables with bits of masking tape, and write down all the settings. Onkyo actually supplies sticky labels for just this purpose – found them in the box when I got it down from the loft. Hmmmm...
8) Now I've got all these new picture settings for the Onkyo's Reon system, I feel an evening with some calibration discs coming on.
9) I used to have a colleague who commuted into the office from somewhere down near Bath, up and down the M4 every day. He must have been crackers.
10) That's it – just wanted to share...
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