Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Technical Questions Onkyo Receiver making a click noise randomly

I only use Denon for installs. Engineers usually only spec Denon on drawings as well. All other installers I know are same boat.

For my personal missions at home its NAD. Dirac plus high power (under spec’d) amps on board makes it a great value. Even if they are expensive, I’ve tried the others…. Dirac is just too good to ignore. As for deals on NAD, try The Audio Room in Calgary. They sell packages and will usually discount if you buy more than one item.

Wouldnt install Onkyo and have discouraged a recent build away from them. Normal for clicks? Huh? Tried Sony, nope. Wont install Yamaha or Pioneer either. Cant take a flier with someone elses money. I always discourage “deal” based buying. You still pay, just in other ways usually -in life in general my philosphy is this. Being cheap costs you more than you think. I digress.

Why Denon? Unfaltering reliability and 100% compatability out of the box. Setup is easy and versatile for current immersive formats. They have ridiculous market share so updates are timely if needed. Menus are braindead to follow, so I dont get callbacks later when the homeowner has changed a setting they dont understand. Bluetooth is rock solid and they are up and running 30 seconds after I hand them the remote. Best sound? Nope. But pretty darn good and none of my installs are for audiophiles. They would be bad customers anyway honestly… lol.

I think it might be the receiver that is bad. I turned the av back to 6+ ohms and it was even clicking at lower volumes from time to time in the middle of watching or listening to content yesterday. I read through a lot of the reviews for the receiver and didn't see anyone make mention of having this clicking problem.

I agree completely when it comes to purchasing items, that buying budget will end up costing you more when you buy the nice item the second time. I will see how the replacement item functions first before I decide to spend more on an AV. I was originally looking at the denon S760H, but that unit got many bad reviews with it.

It appears these costco models are the best bang for the buck type of receivers and if I were to spend double the amount, I am having a hard time seeing what the value would be other than a little more power and better automated room correction.

I hope the replacement does the trick. I want to let you know though, not to under-estimate room correction like XT32.

It's fine if you want to return it, my Onkyo runs fine after a year even with the occasional clicking. I dropped the pre-pro upgrade idea when I realized that the highest I've ever listened to was 83dB peak, and that was at an extremely unpleasant volume for me. That 83 dB at the seating position roughly works out to a power output of...1 Watt/channel.

I agree with TrevorM about buying nice or buying twice. But I don't think there's anything wrong with having a starter AVR for a few years, make a wishlist of all the things you want to add, and then check the marketplace in a few years to see what scratches that itch.

I think Denon is hard to beat in the low tiers (<$500-600). Over that Marantz starts giving Denon some competition in the feature department (like preouts etc) . Once over say $1500 others come into play like NAD.

I personally avoid Sony and Yamaha mainly for room correction. But Sony low end especially ,,, they pulled stuff like marketing RCA video in but burying that it out won’t connect to HDMI out. I couldn’t believe it … the rca and hdmi video switching circuits were independent! That’s Marketing at it worst.

Back in the 90’s I was an Onkyo fan but have since moved away and don’t know much about them any more.

I too have switched from Onkyo to Denon and damn glad i did after reading this thread.
I had contemplated going with Onkyo again during the media room rebuild but a few things swung me to Denon, primarily the longer standing reputation for quality along with the better room correction software.
One thing i don't like is that i can't see to easily change the DSP mode from the front buttons. I hate having to use a remote to access such functions. It's a small but niggling thing. The other night i noticed while watching Crave that i had sound from my side surrounds but not the rears. The Denon was set in DD mode, it was only recognizing 5 speakers, not 7, but of course when i watch Disney+ or other that have a stream in more than 5.1 DD, the rear surround do kick in.
Kind of annoying that i can't get all the surrounds to produce sound when the Denon is in DD mode with a 5.1 signal.
Unless i'm missing something here.

I find it difficult a lot of the time to know exactly what surround mode I’m in. Often I have to flick through a few just to be sure.

On your 5.1 - 7.1 issue think I had the same problem when I had a 7.1 setup.
In the new family room it’s just a 5.1 setup. So … issue solved

You have to set it to dolby surround. Just hit the colored buttons at bottom of remote until it cycles to Dolby Surround/Atmos. Then leave it and it will default to that decoder next time that codec is detected.

Does it switch automatically (do the right thing) between that and 2ch music from cd, video dvd, and streaming music or video from the tv?

Yes, it remembers what you set on each input and returns as it senses signals.

Your Marantz should do the same I would think.