4 ms·

They screwed up their receivers circuit board from 2009 to 2015 ish. All their receivers would fail after 5 years and Onkyo did a massive recall campaign to rep

They screwed up their receivers circuit board from 2009 to 2015 ish. All their receivers would fail after 5 years and Onkyo did a massive recall campaign to replace the main circuit board (with all the amps attached.) That must have costed them.

ryandrake 4y ago
A pretty common failure was the capacitors on their HDMI boards, which is a pretty easy DIY fix if you have some soldering skills.
- MushyRoom 4y ago
  Yes! TX-NR609 (11yrs old) here. Send in for repair (recall - free out of warranty) and no problems ever since.
Hamuko 4y ago
I have one of those receivers, but unfortunately it failed after the recall period ended.
- erichocean 4y ago
  Same. Bought a Pioneer Elite to replace it.
iforgotpassword 4y ago
Uh, I have a TX-8020 from around that time. Nothing fancy, and I don't use it too much as it's not in my main setup. So far it has developed only one quirk: the power button doesn't work properly, you have to press it several times or in a certain spot for it to react, and sometimes, when you want to turn it off it instead says "tone mode: direct" in the display, as if I had pressed another button. Still not sure if this is a mechanical or circuit board problem.
rrdharan 4y ago
I always thought that was part of the capacitor plague but I guess not since the timing doesn’t quite line up with what you’re saying: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague I had an Onkyo from the bad cap era that blew its capacitors, it was maybe 15 years old when it died, FWIW..
- formerly_proven 4y ago
  The Wikipedia article is wrong - it only talks about "the capacitor plague" of water-based elcos from 1999 onwards. There have been multiple capacitor plagues. E.g. in the late 80s/early 90s SMD electrolytics entered the market and these had absolutely atrocious reliability because their lead seals kept failing, so they'd empty their electrolyte into the PCB. Before that the Japanese brands had a plague. Philips "blue axials" had a plague in the 70s/80s. I don't remember the brand right now (small, red-cased caps), which also had a plague in the 80s. Rifa MP safety caps have had moisture ingress issues and associated explosion and fire issues since forever.
tobyhinloopen 4y ago
Mine failed too I wouldn’t buy one again. But apparently I won’t be able to anyway.

ryandrake 4y ago

A pretty common failure was the capacitors on their HDMI boards, which is a pretty easy DIY fix if you have some soldering skills.

MushyRoom 4y ago
Yes! TX-NR609 (11yrs old) here. Send in for repair (recall - free out of warranty) and no problems ever since.

Hamuko 4y ago

I have one of those receivers, but unfortunately it failed after the recall period ended.

erichocean 4y ago
Same. Bought a Pioneer Elite to replace it.

iforgotpassword 4y ago

Uh, I have a TX-8020 from around that time. Nothing fancy, and I don't use it too much as it's not in my main setup. So far it has developed only one quirk: the power button doesn't work properly, you have to press it several times or in a certain spot for it to react, and sometimes, when you want to turn it off it instead says "tone mode: direct" in the display, as if I had pressed another button. Still not sure if this is a mechanical or circuit board problem.

rrdharan 4y ago

I always thought that was part of the capacitor plague but I guess not since the timing doesn’t quite line up with what you’re saying: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague I had an Onkyo from the bad cap era that blew its capacitors, it was maybe 15 years old when it died, FWIW..

formerly_proven 4y ago
The Wikipedia article is wrong - it only talks about "the capacitor plague" of water-based elcos from 1999 onwards. There have been multiple capacitor plagues. E.g. in the late 80s/early 90s SMD electrolytics entered the market and these had absolutely atrocious reliability because their lead seals kept failing, so they'd empty their electrolyte into the PCB. Before that the Japanese brands had a plague. Philips "blue axials" had a plague in the 70s/80s. I don't remember the brand right now (small, red-cased caps), which also had a plague in the 80s. Rifa MP safety caps have had moisture ingress issues and associated explosion and fire issues since forever.

tobyhinloopen 4y ago

Mine failed too I wouldn’t buy one again. But apparently I won’t be able to anyway.