Deciphering the markings of Onkyo AV receivers
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updated 21 June, 2023
In this article, we will analyze in detail the marking features of Onkyo AV receivers, so you can more accurately select the right model. After all, the most important technical characteristics of the model can be easily "read" by its name alone.
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Usually, Onkyo AV receivers have a fairly simple and understandable "name". TX stands for receiver, the following letters are supported technologies. But with numbers, the situation is a little more complicated: there are models in which the right and left digits are a series, and the number in the middle is the year, and there are just with the number and year of release.
Consider an example:
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1.TX receiver;
2. SR — Volume sound support;
3. 393 — The numbers on the left and on the right indicate the series (in this case 3), the number in the middle indicates the year of manufacture of the model (9 — 2019, 8 — 2018, 7 — 2017).
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