I had the wonderful opportunity to look at the TX-SR805 up close, and hear it working in a closed off "audio/video room". It was just one system based around a Sony Blu-ray player (BDP-S1), an Hitachi Plasma HDTV, and a Boston Acoustics 5 channel setup with a DPS-12 Velodyne subwoofer.
It lives up to the weight (I am by no means a scale, but my JVC is around 50 pounds and the Onkyo certainly isn't much different). It is good to know Onkyo is going behind our backs and doing anything underhanded.
The internal design is similar to the TX-NR905 if anyone has seen that model, aside from the Toroid. The digital and analog domain power supplies I cannot see, but I am pretty sure they are there in a shielded cage to each side of the amplifier power supply. (they would be shielded in this receiver because the TX-NR905 has a toroid for the amplifier with its own personal cage so it would not affect the other power supplies. In this case the smaller power supplies need to be shielded from the larger iron core transformer.)
They had the "Gone in 60 Seconds" Blu-ray on all day, probably at a relatively high level (was while I was there), so the receiver was relatively warm, but not too warm. The power supply had some reserve (heat was emitting from it as well as the output stages).
Moving on. The pair of reservoir capacitors have a rating of 15,000 uF (couldn't read the voltage
). With that capacitance rating and the size of the power supply I would say the THX Ultra power specifications are within order.
This looks like one kick-@ss receiver, wish I could afford one.
