Following on the heels of the Pioneer flagship AVR introduced a pair weeks in the past, the Onkyo TX-RZ70 was “developed from scratch” underneath a collaboration between Onkyo Japan and Premium Audio Firm, the Voxx Worldwide subsidiary that’s owns Onkyo and Klipsch and the rights to Pioneer within the residence leisure area.
At $2,799, the TX-RZ70 is THX Choose-certified for areas as much as 2,000 cubic ft with a 10-foot viewing distance and can promote for $200 lower than Pioneer’s forthcoming Elite VSX-LX805, owing largely to THX certification and the distinction between the Onkyo’s 11.2 structure with 11-channel processing and 13 preamp outs and the Pioneer’s 11.4 structure with 15 pre-outs.
Marquee options embody Dirac Reside room correction with full bandwidth functionality and the extra-cost choice so as to add Dirac Reside Bass Management for programs with a number of subwoofers (the receiver has two impartial subwoofer outputs), Roon Prepared integration (by a firmware replace promised in September), and immersive encompass processing for Dolby Atmos, DTS:X, and IMAX Enhanced with Auro3D promised by way of a firmware replace in June.
The AVR is hi-res audio-ready with two audiophile-quality ESS 32-bit Sabre
digital-to-analog converters (DACs) and helps HDMI 2.1/HDCP 2.3, Dolby Imaginative and prescient and HDR10+ excessive dynamic vary (HDR), 4K and 8K decision, and speeds as much as 40Gbps for quick refresh charges, which is very vital for avid players. Onkyo, which has an extended historical past in audio design and engineering, has paid explicit consideration to “capturing each element” of the audio sign because it passes from HDMI to the DAC, in response to the model’s engineering crew in Japan.
On the coronary heart of the RZ70 is an Onkyo-designed Class AB amplifier rated to ship 11 x 140 watts into 8 ohms. The amp boasts high-current functionality for driving audio system when impedance drops, low destructive suggestions to mitigate unintended alerts coming from the speaker, and a closed loop floor structure to attenuate noise between the amp’s acquire and energy phases. The transformer, which is bodily separated from the centrally mounted amplifier, can also be shielded to additional scale back noise
App-controllable streaming choices constructed into the RZ70 embody aptX-enabled Bluetooth, AirPlay 2, Chromecast, DTS Play-Fi, Tidal, Spotify, Amazon Music, Pandora, and Deezer with digital assistant/voice management supported by Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, and Siri. The receiver can also be appropriate with Sonos.
Connectivity choices embody seven HDMI inputs (one in entrance), six of that are 8K-comptible and help eARC and speeds as much as 40 Gbps, three HDMI outputs, two optical and two coaxial digital inputs, 4 analog RCA inputs, one phono enter, and Zone 2 and Zone 3 stereo outputs.
For extra info, go to onkuyousa.com, although as of this writing particulars on the TX-RZ70 weren’t but accessible on the positioning.
