First I'll start off with what's good about Onkyo ...
- low price
- MDS likes them
Okay, now here's what's wrong with them ...
- they run HOT
- some sort of rumored high failure rate with their HDMI boards
- crazy poor customer service
- TLS guy doesn't like them
- BMXTRIX doesn't like them
Having said that I recently started to use an old Onkyo for stereo duty in ManTown and it runs hot just being on. I think the video board on it just recently sh!t the bed ... probably from overheating.
Still, I'm tempted by them quite often on the used market because of the price. My air temp in the condo now is around 80 degrees (with the windows closed) and it's winter. I seriously don't need any more heat sources. Yet I still have one because of the $120 price tag from a pawn shop probably over a year ago. It served me well enough for home theater and now for stereo. Even the spec's on it piss me off. What's with the rated output being measured at 1KHz? What if I get tired of listening to a 1KHz test tone?
Whatever you get please make sure that I like it first because chances are I will be buying it from you when you upgrade.