It's all over for Onkyo
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Onkyo has finally filed for bankruptcy.
Onkyo files for bankruptcy
Unless I am mistaken, it will also take Pioneer AV out of the game too. Pioneer does continue though with car audio and DJ products which are separely owned businesses.
Onkyo files for bankruptcy
Unless I am mistaken, it will also take Pioneer AV out of the game too. Pioneer does continue though with car audio and DJ products which are separely owned businesses.
Edited by Lucid_AV on Saturday 14th May 16:29
PhilboSE said:
Polk, Denon & Marantz (and Pioneer as mentioned) are part of the same group. Let’s hope they’re not all dragged down otherwise there won’t be many players left
- Sony & Yamaha at the low/med level and Arcam and low volume specialists at the high end?
Agreed that this is not good news for us mere mortals that typically go for the 'mid' part of this market.- Sony & Yamaha at the low/med level and Arcam and low volume specialists at the high end?
I thought the merger with the company that owns Polk, Denon and Marantz did not go through in the end?
Also, seems the A/V activities were sold off somewhere in 2021 - so only the OEM part went bust?
Thats a bit gutting. 
I was trying to buy an Onkyo Atmos home cinema set in 2020 with my new 4K TV and 4K player, couldn't get the latest version of them and Onkyo just said it was having supply issues and to wait.
After ages with no updates I looked at getting a euro version as they said it was the same and just needed an adaptor plug. Unfortunately these were out of stock by the time they told me this.
Finally at the start of 2021 I managed to find a previous version opened but unused on an ebay shop, gave me a warranty and all is good.
Great upgrade from 5.1
I was trying to buy an Onkyo Atmos home cinema set in 2020 with my new 4K TV and 4K player, couldn't get the latest version of them and Onkyo just said it was having supply issues and to wait.
After ages with no updates I looked at getting a euro version as they said it was the same and just needed an adaptor plug. Unfortunately these were out of stock by the time they told me this.
Finally at the start of 2021 I managed to find a previous version opened but unused on an ebay shop, gave me a warranty and all is good.
Great upgrade from 5.1
Timothy Bucktu said:
It's a shame of course, but having owned two Onkyo receivers which both had the DTS chip of death issue...I switched to Yamaha and never looked back. They got a bad reputation unfortunately.
Unfortunately, that wasn't their fault either, but they decided to take it on the chin, rather than pass the buck!!! Massive marketing faux-pasI've got a TX-NR906 with a noisy front right channel, so much so I don't use it anymore. Cost a fortune when I bought it and produced so much heat it could melt an iceberg - well, it managed to deform the cabinet it resided in and yes there was the recommended space all round. I did think that the excessive heat had something to do with causing the channel problems.
That is a shame, I have had two Onkyo receivers and they have both been very impressive and in particular exceptionally well specified for the price point.
My current one is not that old so I will be OK for a while. In fact if Voxx have bought the home AV brands then Onkyo may live on
Ben
My current one is not that old so I will be OK for a while. In fact if Voxx have bought the home AV brands then Onkyo may live on
Ben
WyrleyD said:
I've got a TX-NR906 with a noisy front right channel, so much so I don't use it anymore. Cost a fortune when I bought it and produced so much heat it could melt an iceberg - well, it managed to deform the cabinet it resided in and yes there was the recommended space all round. I did think that the excessive heat had something to do with causing the channel problems.
Yeah that's what killed the HDMI/DTS boards in their receivers which sat above a class A heater underneath. My tube amp puts out less heat!I remember selling them years ago.
They gradually put profit before quality. THX spec dropped, then Audyssey was abandoned. That prompted a few of their leading tech team to quit.
Sales flagged, so they made AV amp from paper thin tin sheet, hardly even painted properly!
The back panels were so thin, they flexed when the sockets were used, which could break connections.
The overheating and HDMI board failures had been going on all along, but were made worse.
The Pioneer stuff was heading the sakes way and I’v not seen any their AV kit for ages.
Most retailers I know, stopped dealing with them five or six years ago too.
They gradually put profit before quality. THX spec dropped, then Audyssey was abandoned. That prompted a few of their leading tech team to quit.
Sales flagged, so they made AV amp from paper thin tin sheet, hardly even painted properly!
The back panels were so thin, they flexed when the sockets were used, which could break connections.
The overheating and HDMI board failures had been going on all along, but were made worse.
The Pioneer stuff was heading the sakes way and I’v not seen any their AV kit for ages.
Most retailers I know, stopped dealing with them five or six years ago too.
PhilboSE said:
Polk, Denon & Marantz (and Pioneer as mentioned) are part of the same group. Let’s hope they’re not all dragged down otherwise there won’t be many players left
- Sony & Yamaha at the low/med level and Arcam and low volume specialists at the high end?
Eh? Yamaha do some brilliant AV equipment. I love the Aventage stuff. My Sony was pretty decent too, certainly not low end. I wouldn’t say Marantz is high end either! - Sony & Yamaha at the low/med level and Arcam and low volume specialists at the high end?
The Onkyo 605 I owned for a while was nice while it lasted, although never sounded quite as good as the Yamaha it was bought to replace. Some nice accessories like the iPad dock though..
It suffered a slow death, LCD display, then HDMI board - the only AV receiver I've actually binned. Went back to Yamaha in the end.
It suffered a slow death, LCD display, then HDMI board - the only AV receiver I've actually binned. Went back to Yamaha in the end.
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