Uploaded May 2016 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Had to replace my very old & trusty Onkyo TX-SR606.
Was watching Game of Thrones and it went on standby for no apparent reason. When I grabbed the remote and tried to power it back up there was a loud bang followed by loads of smoke and a very bright light shining through the top air vents as one of the main output transistors self combusted! Despite replacing it and several parts it was not having any of it. There was obviously a big fault somewhere and I didn't want to waste much more time on it.
I was going to upgrade the amp in the future anyway as I have recently purchased a big 4K UHDTV so it forced my hade early.
It has done well though, I've driven it quite hard on some occasions and I have already had to repair it once when the HDMI board packed up. Never mind eh!
New toy to play with!
I did have a problem as modern receivers do not have tape line-in or line-outs (yes I STILL have a tape deck) but I got around that problem by using the zone 2 line-out.
Had to replace my very old & trusty Onkyo TX-SR606.
Was watching Game of Thrones and it went on standby for no apparent reason. When I grabbed the remote and tried to power it back up there was a loud bang followed by loads of smoke and a very bright light shining through the top air vents as one of the main output transistors self combusted! Despite replacing it and several parts it was not having any of it. There was obviously a big fault somewhere and I didn't want to waste much more time on it.
I was going to upgrade the amp in the future anyway as I have recently purchased a big 4K UHDTV so it forced my hade early.
It has done well though, I've driven it quite hard on some occasions and I have already had to repair it once when the HDMI board packed up. Never mind eh!
New toy to play with!
I did have a problem as modern receivers do not have tape line-in or line-outs (yes I STILL have a tape deck) but I got around that problem by using the zone 2 line-out.
