What receiver would you recommend instead?
why do you recommend this?
Mostly reserve power. Look at the weight difference between the 807 and the 1007. Most of that is beefier amp and powersupply sections.
As far as Onkyo reliability in my opinion most of the talk is FUD - but two models have in very rare cases shown serious problems. Those are the HT-RC180 and the TX-SR80
6. I would stay far-far-far away from those two. When Onkyo went from the 805 to the 806 the weight dropped a lot. Rumors claim that the formerly tank like power supply section was cheapened in exchange for more more bells and whistles and there were scattered and very rare reports of fires in those two near identical models
only. Not enough to generate a recall but enough to worry me. I have not heard of any problems on the other members of the XX6 models or any of the following year's XX7 line but I'm still leery of the 807.
The other thing to keep in mind is that all Onkyos run extra warm - feeding rumors. The reality is that they put serious powersupply sections and amplifiers in their products and those generate heat. But that means that you do need to give them room to breath. 2" above and a good air flow around them. I run my TX-NR906 16 hours a day she works great.
