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Rating: 
Summary: Excellent receive but do not buy it for iTunes
Review: This receiver is excellent. Sound quality is great, esp. if you take adavantage of the 7.1 speaker setup. I highly recommend it for its quality as a reciever. If you are buying it for its NetTunes capability - i.e. connecting the reciever to a computer to get Radio and play stored music, be warned. NetTunes is an immature product. I have never gotten it to work with MP3 songs off my computer using verying compressions. This means I need to store music in wav format - a lot of disk space. The hookup cannot be wireless. It must have a hardwire ethernet connection to your computer. I use a router. Finally but not least, the NetTunes user interface is TERRIBLE. Building playlists is almost impossible. You must drag and drop songs individually and you must drop it exactly onto the playlist or it will not work. If you are expecting a Media Player or iTunes quality interface, forget it. I am giving up on iTunes and buying a product that uses a optical digital connection to the Onkyo Reciever with a USB interface to the computer. I can play any format using almost any player - i.e play MP3 off of Media Player onto my reciever.
Rating:
Summary: Excellent receive but do not buy it for iTunes
Review: This receiver is excellent. Sound quality is great, esp. if you take adavantage of the 7.1 speaker setup. I highly recommend it for its quality as a reciever. If you are buying it for its NetTunes capability - i.e. connecting the reciever to a computer to get Radio and play stored music, be warned. NetTunes is an immature product. I have never gotten it to work with MP3 songs off my computer using verying compressions. This means I need to store music in wav format - a lot of disk space. The hookup cannot be wireless. It must have a hardwire ethernet connection to your computer. I use a router. Finally but not least, the NetTunes user interface is TERRIBLE. Building playlists is almost impossible. You must drag and drop songs individually and you must drop it exactly onto the playlist or it will not work. If you are expecting a Media Player or iTunes quality interface, forget it. I am giving up on iTunes and buying a product that uses a optical digital connection to the Onkyo Reciever with a USB interface to the computer. I can play any format using almost any player - i.e play MP3 off of Media Player onto my reciever.
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