Onkyo HT-S3300 5.1-Channel Home Theater Receiver/Speaker Review

Posted by Marz on Aug 31, 2010 in Home Theaters | 0 comments

Onkyo HT-S3300 5.1-Channel Home Theater Receiver/Speaker

Onkyo HT-S3300 5.1-Channel Home Theater Receiver/Speaker Package (Black)

If you aim to redefine your own entry-level home theater, then Onkyo HT-S3300 5.1-Channel Home Theater is the best one for you. With its sweet sounds produced that flawlessly fills your entire room along with the lavishness of its style, without a doubt; your home would be far unique from others.

Making Your Home Extra Special

Being perfectly matched to its HT-R380 receiver, the 5.1 channel speaker is readily available for you to enjoy. Equipped with speakers having 3-1/4” woofer at 120 watts, the Onkyo has two SKF-380 front-channel speakers in its full-range bass reflex. Also, it has another two SKR-380 surround speakers and one SKC-380 center-channel speaker that produce sounds like never before. More so, a SKW-380 8” downward-firing bass reflux subwoofer with a maximum input power of 130-watts is being included in the package.

The Onkyo HT-S3300 lets you hook up your own gaming console, cable/satellite tuner as well as with a Blu-ray device at the same time with the use of its three HDMI 1.4 inputs. This allows you then to send only one output on your display being viewed with a high resolution. More so, exciting add-ups are being showcased to this latest version. High opportunities to experience 3D video and Audio Return Channel are very feasible. This allows its users to enjoy its games, movies and broadcasts on 3D as well as have the handiness of an Audio Return Channel through the use of HDMI.

Furthermore, decoding well-defined sound codecs were made possible by HT-S3300’s A/V receiver. With this, it can decode TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio that permits delivery of sounds purely the same to the studio tracks. Clearer sounds can be produced with the use of its 192 kHz/24-Bit Burr-Brown DACs. With its advanced performance coupled with a clock jitter resistant, it offers you a dynamic 113dB range.

For a more dynamic bass, the Onkyo HT-S3300’s EX.bass works greatly with sound outputs in low frequencies in two ways, either in 40 Hz and 80 Hz. With regard to high volumes, normal levels of the boosted bass returns automatically. Meanwhile, with sounds and music, it uniquely creates a more dynamic and deeper bass sound by adding up to its features its Audyssey EQ. This new technology paves a way for its users to enjoy their time listening to quality music as it reduces acoustic interference present in a typical listening room. It helps the system utilize its configuration process in the speakers. It also activates the correction filter of the speakers to control all the surrounding sounds within the room. It consistently maintains the tonal balance, bass response and nice effects of the surrounding sounds regardless of volume levels. This amazing feature gives you a more enjoyable moment to feel the sound dynamics being created of your home theater.

Lastly, adjusting settings would be as easy as one click. Without switching back and forth to a blank screen background, you can readily change set-up through its overlaid menus on the image of the video you’re watching. This Onkyo’s overlaid On-Screen Display (OSD) feature gives you a hassle free experience of changing settings.

Although it has lots of stunning features, it cannot sustain to produce great sounds for large rooms. Also, there are no available video inputs on the receiver’s front side making it hard for you to attach video cameras or other video devices. It has cheap and short speaker cables for you to change to some higher end cables. Lastly, it lacks automatic acoustic correction making for you to do it manually.

Overall, with its affordable price and full-packed features, Onkyo HT-S3300 is an excellent product worth buying for.