This system is incredible, regardless of the great price (just short of $700 delivered to the door). I have a 13' wide x 30' long x 10' high living room and had a hard time finding a place for all the speakers! This is as simple as I can say it.

Meantime, as someone whose been down that route before (Infinity speakers, Pioneer Elite receiver, etc. etc.) I can only smile while I crank this amazing system and watch an HD DVD on my 62" JVC Pro set. For the clarity, loudness, involving, neat sound and sheer power and numerous settings of the Onkyo S990THX -- the only change I made out of the box was to use quality speaker-wire as opposed to the flimsy 18 gauge, color-coded stuff that comes with the set -- is simply amazing.

I'm a relative novice so if anyone were to care to comment on whether the average person can hear the difference HDMI hook-up or optical sound please join-in. I think for the price I paid which included S&H and no tax it was a great bargain. I just hope Amazon responds soon to the speakers that were damaged upon delivery by UPS.

After much reading and speculation, I thought I'd save myself the time and trouble it took me to put together all those other systems in the past and "gamble" on the Onkyo set. Boy was I amazed once I hooked and fired this bad-boy up!

I do intend to replace all of the speaker wires with high-grade, banana clip wires. Even without them though, great stuff here. When it was shipped one of the woofers was blown in the left-front speaker.

Most times I've gone with the separate components rout, as I was always less than impressed with the offerings in the HTIB market. Although I did purchase Dream System (Sony) and an offering from Yamaha for less demanding installations -- meaning a small, secondary living room in one case and a bedroom for the other. I'd had my last assembled system for a couple of years now, well, the receiver anyway (a digital offering from Panasonic), the rest of the components were older.

The only thing I wish this system included is one of those self-adjusting microphones that allows the system to automatically adjust the intensity levels of the speakers from different locations in your room. Overall this system is great if you want an outstanding sound experience without shelling out thousands of dollars.

Amazon.com had the best price, and got the system to my house in 2 days.

Great price, great sound, easy set-up (takes a little time, but that's normal)

Having precision surround such as this system provides really gives a player an edge. For movies it is great.

I bought this system primarily for gaming and it didn't disappoint.

This system is incredible, regardless of the great price (just short of $700 delivered to the door). I have a 13' wide x 30' long x 10' high living room and had a hard time finding a place for all the speakers! This is as simple as I can say it.

Meantime, as someone whose been down that route before (Infinity speakers, Pioneer Elite receiver, etc. etc.) I can only smile while I crank this amazing system and watch an HD DVD on my 62" JVC Pro set. For the clarity, loudness, involving, neat sound and sheer power and numerous settings of the Onkyo S990THX -- the only change I made out of the box was to use quality speaker-wire as opposed to the flimsy 18 gauge, color-coded stuff that comes with the set -- is simply amazing.

I'm a relative novice so if anyone were to care to comment on whether the average person can hear the difference HDMI hook-up or optical sound please join-in. I think for the price I paid which included S&H and no tax it was a great bargain. I just hope Amazon responds soon to the speakers that were damaged upon delivery by UPS.

The only thing I wish this system included is one of those self-adjusting microphones that allows the system to automatically adjust the intensity levels of the speakers from different locations in your room. Overall this system is great if you want an outstanding sound experience without shelling out thousands of dollars.

This system is incredible, regardless of the great price (just short of $700 delivered to the door). I have a 13' wide x 30' long x 10' high living room and had a hard time finding a place for all the speakers! This is as simple as I can say it.

I'm a relative novice so if anyone were to care to comment on whether the average person can hear the difference HDMI hook-up or optical sound please join-in. I think for the price I paid which included S&H and no tax it was a great bargain. I just hope Amazon responds soon to the speakers that were damaged upon delivery by UPS.

Amazon.com had the best price, and got the system to my house in 2 days.

Great price, great sound, easy set-up (takes a little time, but that's normal)

Meantime, as someone whose been down that route before (Infinity speakers, Pioneer Elite receiver, etc. etc.) I can only smile while I crank this amazing system and watch an HD DVD on my 62" JVC Pro set. For the clarity, loudness, involving, neat sound and sheer power and numerous settings of the Onkyo S990THX -- the only change I made out of the box was to use quality speaker-wire as opposed to the flimsy 18 gauge, color-coded stuff that comes with the set -- is simply amazing.

Most times I've gone with the separate components rout, as I was always less than impressed with the offerings in the HTIB market. Although I did purchase Dream System (Sony) and an offering from Yamaha for less demanding installations -- meaning a small, secondary living room in one case and a bedroom for the other. I'd had my last assembled system for a couple of years now, well, the receiver anyway (a digital offering from Panasonic), the rest of the components were older.

Meantime, as someone whose been down that route before (Infinity speakers, Pioneer Elite receiver, etc. etc.) I can only smile while I crank this amazing system and watch an HD DVD on my 62" JVC Pro set. For the clarity, loudness, involving, neat sound and sheer power and numerous settings of the Onkyo S990THX -- the only change I made out of the box was to use quality speaker-wire as opposed to the flimsy 18 gauge, color-coded stuff that comes with the set -- is simply amazing.

After much reading and speculation, I thought I'd save myself the time and trouble it took me to put together all those other systems in the past and "gamble" on the Onkyo set. Boy was I amazed once I hooked and fired this bad-boy up!

Great price, great sound, easy set-up (takes a little time, but that's normal)

This system is incredible, regardless of the great price (just short of $700 delivered to the door). I have a 13' wide x 30' long x 10' high living room and had a hard time finding a place for all the speakers! This is as simple as I can say it.

Most times I've gone with the separate components rout, as I was always less than impressed with the offerings in the HTIB market. Although I did purchase Dream System (Sony) and an offering from Yamaha for less demanding installations -- meaning a small, secondary living room in one case and a bedroom for the other. I'd had my last assembled system for a couple of years now, well, the receiver anyway (a digital offering from Panasonic), the rest of the components were older.