Scope of supply:
With the device, you receive AM and FM antenna, both of which can in the trash. The manual is, as with almost all vefasst Far Eastern products, in a strange logic. For example it is mentioned using the USB connection, that a return to
Takes place main menu with the Menu button. Worked but not until I noticed that one
not any USB disks (stick and hard drive) but the Ipod said. However, is not there.
So that then goes on in the operating instructions on 51 pages. Since the Pioneer guide with the same functions with 30 pages was clearly correct.
Weak is the remote control, the way that it acts rather cheaply besides the fact "shines" with very small print. For the functions are positioned tidy.
Functionality (excluding Zone 2, not tested):
The device has at 6 ohms 2 x 130 watts maximum power. The can also be accessed, unlike my predecessor, because the maximum total power consumption is greater than the wattage.
- Headphone jack
- Plenty of analog / digital inputs (coax / opt..)
- VHF - / MW - antenna input
- Ipod - Port (Adapter surcharge)
- USB Front (decodes all I know MP3, WMA, Flac to 96kHz / 24bit, WAV etc.)
- Networking rear RJ45 DLNA certification with me with TP-LINK via power supply
KLANG:
The Pioneer PDX-Z9 is a good measure to classify the sound character. The Pioneer sound tends to warm and unspectacular, what "the cooler" speakers, about the Heco - Celan series accommodates.
For me it was the other way around. My tend artificially designed speakers had here the wrong game partners, regardless of the fact that the Pioneer has too little power.
The Onkyo plays significantly more neutral, with a slight emphasis on the middle. Resolution and stage performance are comparable for both. The Onkyo is not a Bass miracles; but what you hear has an amazing amount of contour for this price range and is "crisp" safely correctly paraphrased with the term. In every detail, the developers seem to have deliberately avoided in order not to jeopardize a successful stereo stage in this price range.
The sound is slightly "burred" what would many inexperienced listener may "crisp" Translation. Particularly homogeneous sound amplifier in conjunction with speakers who have a warm timbre (eg Monitor Audio Silver RX 6 or Mordaunt Short Mezzo 6). However, for higher-quality speakers like my Opera Quinta, the device suggests well.
Before buying, I have heard the Kenwood RA 7000 and the brother Onkyo A5VL. In my opinion, the Kenwood is in the league including, during A5VL is just quiet and less playful.
The headphone output sounds price range meet mediocre, but free from noise.
The Pure Audio function or USB direct function makes for a really distinct sound improvement, while the Retriever function to polish more MP3 is a gag, the
times subjectively to improve, sometimes leads to deterioration.
Balance, Bass / Treble controls only work in normal stereo mode because the signal is routed directly from the source to output.
USB FUNCTION:
I tried 4 sticks 4-16 GB. They all worked with FAT 32 formatted immediately. A 1TB hard drive, filled with 656 CDs in MP3, WAV, WMV, Flac 96kHz / 24-bit does not only work properly but in no time. After 5 seconds, the hard disk folder are loaded and you can jump through hundreds of folders within a few seconds from folder A to folder Z. You select songs worked so well that I only go to the network for internally generated playlists or Internet radio.
NETWORK:
I have a link on TP-Link Power network made to RJ45 the device. With DHCP you can via "Automatic" to the router (a Fritz box with me). With the shared Windows Media Player then be able to play music and immediately deposited playlists. The often criticized delay in operation is usually in the network, not on the device. The most important tip: Share only audio files because the Onkyo also has the images or video folder in the buffer and thus unnecessarily. He may not show it, yes.
The release of WMP 11 is in the operating instructions bad, as well as the storage of Internet radio stations. But everything works perfectly, if one uses a little of its own logic.
THE SOUND OF NETWORK equivalent to a CONNECTED TO THE QUALITY digital compatible CD Player. This also applies THE USB DIRECT CONNECTION (Pure Audio).
THE INTERNET RADIO stations can naturally only sound the way ES BANDWIDTH permits.
Quantum leaps to FM Radio You may at max. Do not expect 256 kbit.
IPod and subwoofer I have not tested that they are not used.
Making Euro servants in China, so he - the Ipod because it's too expensive and it 1,
overpriced for European yuppies can serve as a bad sounding figurehead and a subwoofer because the Onkyo produces enough natural Bass.
