Nikhil:
I am vacillating over buying the TX8050. I was ready to purchase until I read the following negative review about the network capability. I would really appreciate your comments about this function in relation to the attached reference.
http://www.avsforum.com/t/1353726/beware-of-the-onkyo-tx-8050
Thanks,
Chrisjs
Chris,
That post was one of the early criticisms of the TX8050 which were later sorted to some extent.
See the Onkyo firmware update log where some of the issues were sorted out (Nov 2011 update).
http://www.intl.onkyo.com/support/firmware/tx-8050.html
The first point is an issue related to the way the network is setup. For best results use a wired connection, a 100 Base-TX switched Ethernet
network is recommended as per the manual. But I think even for wireless the latest firmware update has taken care of this.
I switched to an AppleTV eventually which connects to the TX8050 via optical cable and really its been smooth sailing. Highly recommended if you can spring for the additional $100 bucks. Controlling your music over iPhone/iPad is easy as it gets. Some of the issues related to the AAC formats are issues I couldn't really replicate. I played all kinds of files over the AppleTV just fine except FLAC. But there's a hack for that as well if you care to get into it.
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