Okay, So This is the Essential Issue With Regard to, Again, ONKYO Receiver Owners....

[Lexmark3200]

"It is posts like yours that have prevented me from total retirement yet."

What does this mean exactly?

"I think (and this may be foolish) that there is still hope in you"

Oh really, hope for what and what exactly are you implying? Do you have any idea the level of final education I have received or exactly what kind of person I am on the inside or what constitutes my feelings as a human being or what my favorite flavor of ice cream is or have you ever shook my hand, looked into my eyes, felt good when I smiled around you? My take on these answers would ne "no," but of COURSE you are going to write back, telling me the exact opposite and are going to tell me that you know me exactly, when you, in reality, dont. What can you POSSIBLY mean that it may be FOOLISH that there is still hope in me? Am I not human? What are you getting at?

"Reading from all your posts and yes, I did read them"

Good for you and thank you.

"I have concluded that you are a very unsatisfied buyer of a receiver. You have to IMMEDIATELY sell the Onkyo on ebay and get something else. Until you do that you won't find happiness. You want others to validate your purchase based on what you are telling them and this won't happen in reality."

Thats so far from the truth its not even funny ---- I am simply ASKING if OTHER ONKYO RECEIVER OWNERS need to bring their volumes, on average, beyond the "50" marker on the display. I want to do nothing of what you suggest in this statement.


"If you read my reply to your other post in another thread, I did mention that dialog i.e. center channels are the weakest link in receivers. The moment I added external amplification it was as if my center channel came to life. I have tried all sorts of receivers and even the mighty Denon 4802 came up short on the center channel."

Perhaps I did not remember this part of the last thread where you mentioned this; I cannot believe that someone would need to, though, give up a receiver for separates based SOLELY on the center channel weakness. Still, I DO experience this center channel "deadness" that I have been trying to explain; there seems to be no room-filling "life" to the center position in my system, and THATS WITH cranking the center THREE DECIBLELS higher than the others in the setup menu.

"The clarity I get on Hotel California from the center channel and the clarity I get from musical instruments through an amplifier is unmatched. A receiver "WILL DO" in many cases but an external amplifier will outperform a receiver's internal amps IMHO.
I will offer you this advise. Go to audiogon.com and buy a decent 5 or 7 channel amp. Buy a decent receiver with preouts and start experiencing Nirvana ASAP.
Let me repeat, your Onkyo is weak in the power dept. and please, this is my opinion and I do not want to get into a pissing contest with anybody here trying to convince me otherwise."

You are missing what I am asking, so with all due respect if you dont own an Onkyo, please refrain from commenting further --- I would like to know from OTHER Onkyo receiver owners if it seems "normal" to need to bring the volume up to "50" or higher when watching DVDs, a question by which I get very mixed answers on.....many say yes, but when you say my Onkyo is weak in the power department, I dont think this is really the issue.....some DVD soundtracks REALLY, really explode when I play them back, especially if its a well done DTS track, so my question still remains: why do I need to go beyond the "50" mark on this display or is this normal?

"Finally Lexmark, sell the Onkyo and do what I have told you. By the way, are you happy with your Lexmark 3200? You have one, right?"

Im not selling my Onkyo right now, and your sarcasm is not really called for or necessary. I used to have that printer at work but dont anymore, and I am trying to have my screen name changed through administration.