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Onkyo’s Hi-Fi revolution gathers pace with the TX-8050. This finely sculpted stereo receiver delivers two channels of audio precision to amusement spaces where you don’t need progressed video processing or multichannel audio. Analog A/V inputs on the TX-8050 are augmented by digital optical and coaxial audio inputs, a Universal Port for Onkyo peripherals, and a front-side USB input for direct digital connection of iPod /iPhone . The receiver’s network capability, meanwhile, lets you stream internet radio or play audio from a PC or network audio storage device. Behind the smart aluminum façade lies a massive transformer and huge capacitors that provide clean amplification power and help push performance well beyond the norm.

Onkyo’s Hi-Fi revolution gathers pace with the TX-8050. This finely sculpted stereo receiver delivers two channels of audio precision to amusement spaces where you don’t need modern video processing or multichannel audio. Analog A/V inputs on the TX-8050 are augmented by digital optical and coaxial audio inputs, a Universal Port for Onkyo peripherals, and a front-side USB input for direct digital connection of iPod /iPhone . The receiver’s network capability, meanwhile, lets you stream internet radio or play audio from a PC or network audio storage device. Behind the smart aluminum façade lies a massive transformer and big capacitors that provide clean amplification power and aid push performance well beyond the norm.

Classic Stereo Audio with Network Functionality
	Onkyo’s hi-fi revolution gathers pace with the TX-8050. This finely sculpted stereo receiver delivers two channels of audio precision to amusement spaces where you don’t need modern video processing or multichannel audio. Gold plated, analog A/V inputs that ascertain outstanding performance are augmented by digital audio inputs, Universal Port for Onkyo peripherals and a front USB input for direct digital connection of iPod®/iPhone®. The receiver’s network capability, meanwhile, lets you stream internet radio or play audio from a PC or network audio storage device. Behind the smart aluminum façade lies a massive transformer and huge capacitors that provide clean amplification power, which includes Onkyo’s exclusive WRAT, and helps push performance well beyond the norm.

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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
Great Sounding and Functional Receiver
By F. Espinosa
Bought this receiver and matched it up with a pair of Paradigm Atoms w/ Auralex speaker platforms. This was for a bedroom set-up and the unit and speakers sit on a 2x dresser. I was expecting an average sound and got much more.

Pros:
1. Plays FLAC via a NTFS USB Powered Hard Drive. The hard drive I use is 640 GB. It reads the Hard Drive relatively quickly (15 sec) and scrolls through the folders very quickly.
2. Adding the receiver to the network is easy – just enter your WEP – done. You can stream WMP and with the program Jamcast you can stream Spotify, MOG, etc via DLNA. Has Pandora, MyRhapsody and some other programs already installed on the receiver. Entering your username and password for those services using a dial is probably the most painstaking effort for setting it up.
3. Most important – it sounds GREAT. I was worried about having a lean sound with Atoms and Onkyo. However, it’s actually quite warm. It could be that it’s in a carpeted bedroom, but whatever works. The sound optimizer for playing MP3s works well overall in smoothing out the clipping MP3s have especially in those low kb bit rates from Pandora, etc. There’s only so much that can be done on low bit rate streaming.

Cons:
There are several, but minor and wouldn’t change my mind from recommending it. None of these issues are related to the sound, but just convenience.
1. No subwoofer cut-off capability. I don’t feel my set-up needs a subwoofer, but if it’s important to you.
2. No backlighting on the control.
3. Hard Drive doesn’t shut off when the receiver is off. You’ll have to unplug from USB when you are done.
4. The Android App really doesn’t do much except change the volume and change the input. It does play songs off the Android, but with all the other options, don’t really see a need for it. Would be nice to link Spotify, MOG, etc to the Onkyo via Android App.
5. On Pure Audio, would like the display to come back on when changing folders, input, stations, etc. Have to scroll through the sound options (5 total) to get back to pure audio after changing an option.

Other than that, to reiterate I was really impressed by the sound, esp ~$600 set-up. I have a dedicated listening room with a Squeezebox, DAC, SACD, room treatments, turntable, etc. Although this Onkyo + Atom combo doesn’t beat out the dedicated listening room set-up, for computer audio it comes really close.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
Just what I was looking for!
By D. Matheny
I recently built a workshop in my backyard and wired it up with a network connection and stereo speakers while I was at it. The whole time I just assumed that good networked stereo receivers would be easy to come by for not much money – but it turns out I was wrong.

After a fairly extensive search, I finally came across this little bad boy. I’ve never owned an Onkyo product before, but I do know they have a good reputation – so I went ahead and pulled the trigger.

Just so you know, my main usage includes listening to AM & FM as well as networked radio stations and music from my local music collection that’s already on my network.

After having said all that, here are the things I like about the Onkyo TX-8050:

1) The sound is excellent! I have it hooked up to a pair of Polk OWM5 speakers and they sound very good. Just what I was looking for in my workshop.

2) The Internet radio options are very good. With the vTuner, I can tune all of the radio stations I typically listen to, and they sound better than the AM or FM broadcasts. It’s easy to organize network radio stations into named categories and the station names themselves can also be renamed. Overall, it’s extremely easy to keep everything organized and easy to look up.

3) Configuring this receiver to play music off my network was simple. It’s simply a matter of turning on media sharing on the PC where the music files are loaded and then scrolling down to that PC in the DLNA menu. I am sharing my music from a Windows 7 system. The hard drive and USB options are great – but I prefer using the network so I don’t have a bunch of USB dongles hanging off the front of the receiver…

4) There are options to tune in just about any Internet music source you can think of, including: SiriusXM Internet Radio, Pandora, Rhapsody, Slacker, Mediafly, Napster, and Last.fm. Those are in addition to the vTuner option I already mentioned that lets you tune in radio stations that are also streaming over the Internet.

5) The favorites menu can be configured over the network. If you don’t feel like scrolling from character to character, manually renaming everything – just load up the TX-8050 in an Internet browser and you can do all the renaming and configuring from there. This also lets you set URLs for manually streaming radio stations that haven’t been added to the vTuner service. The way to do this is to get the IP address from the setup menu (such as 192.168.1.100), and then type it into your web browser like: “http://192.168.1.100″.

6) Did I mention that the sound is excellent?!

Although, for the most part, everything is working great – I do have a few minor complaints:

1) The AM/FM reception is mediocre at best. This would be a bigger deal if my stations weren’t available for Internet streaming.

2) The favorites menu is kind of cool – but the standard organization is so good that it just adds clutter in my case. It would be better if manually entered stations could just be integrated into the vTuner categories instead.

3) The network startup time is fairly long. Forget just hitting the switch and getting networked tunes in a few seconds. In my case, it takes close to a minute – and that’s over a hard-wired network.

4) Setting this up was a piece of cake for me, but I wonder if someone without any networking skills would fair as well. In other words, this probably wouldn’t make a great gift for dear old grandma who’s just looking to listen to the radio…

Overall, this receiver is exactly what I was looking for. I wanted something with better sound than a SqueezeBox; yet with at least the same number of networking options – and the Onkyo TX-8050 pulled that combination off nicely.

I would highly recommend this if you’re a techie person who wants great sound combined with all the networked music options you could want.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Great Receiver
By Maestro
I needed a simple, low cost stereo with a phono input for a living room/dining room music system. After seeing what was out there, this was a no brainer. I’m running the 8050 into a pair of Wharfedale Diamond 10.1 speakers sitting on a built in wall bookshelf. It sounds great. Not too warm, not too bright in my room (wood floors, dining table, couch, tables, and chairs) with decent bass response. A nice, rich, full sound with all sources. I’m using the analog stereo out from an old Oppo 981 as my disc player for the time being. No complaints there. I will say discs sounded better via the Oppo analog out compared to the digital in of the 8050. But it works great for audio out from the DirecTV receiver.

I’m using a TRENDnet TEW-650AP as an AP client plugged into the 8050 to stream music from a Synology DS2011j NAS. I would have gotten the Onkyo USB adapter but the cabinet door wouldn’t have closed with the adapter jutting out of the front. The AP shouldn’t have taken so long to set up but the documentation is poorly worded (if you know what your doing trust your instincts – I had is set up correctly in 5 minutes but second guessed myself and wasted 2 hours).

I’m still working out some minor kinks on the NAS/WMP 11 end, but otherwise I’ve had no issues. Listening to Pandora via the 8050, and Shoutcast via the Synology, and it’s been great. Yes, scrolling through the menus is a pain via the receiver’s display but…for this price, I’ll deal. Anyway, playlists and favorites can help with that.

Plays FLAC, wav, mp3 with no issue. Sounds surprisingly good with low bit rate sources (internet radio mostly; most of my mp3 are 320kHz).

Even the tuner is pretty good. I know over the air radio isn’t the main selling point of this receiver, but as an afterthought I plugged in the included antenna I was surprised with the strength of the tuner.

All in all this is one great piece of equipment. I highly recommend this receiver. I had an old Onkyo Pro Logic receiver years ago and loved the sound (I got rid of it thinking I’d never need it; turns out I did. Ironically I bought another Onkyo)

Shipped without issue. Box was fine, etc.

Oh, updating firmware is painless. I did two updates via USB. Onkyo seem to be providing regular updates which is a good thing.

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