Onkyo TX-8255 Stereo Receiver
- 50W/ch x 2ch
- Speaker A/B
- 6 Audio inputs, including Phono input
- Discrete circuit for High-current drive
- iPod compatible
Product Description
If you want your receiver to focus purely on two-channel audio, the TX-8255 could be just the answer. It`s perfect for your living room, or anywhere else you like to sit back and soak up your music.The TX-8255`s rock-solid construction incorporates a heavy-duty extruded aluminum heat sink to ensure cooler operation.The whole unit is housed in a rigid, reinforced chassis-finished off with a hairline-brushed aluminum front panel-to help eliminate vibrations. Add compatibility with RI dock for the iPod(R), and you have a superb stereo solution that brings out the power and dynamism of your audio sources…. More >>
June 26, 2010 3:50 pm 5 Comments
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By Dini, June 26, 2010 @ 5:57 pm
The manual lacks any instruction to connect a sub-woofer leaving the customer hapless as to what to do. The unit itself lacks a connecton for a sub-woofer. The result is poor performance.
Rating: 3 / 5
By Vulnavia Phibes, June 26, 2010 @ 6:37 pm
Think twice before ordering this or any electronic item from Amazon. Their packaging stinks! The outer box started to come apart due to the inner box bouncing around inside. Only one small wad of packing paper was packed in the outer box with the inner box. The inner box should have been completely surrounded by packaging materials and should not move at all. I got lucky this time, there was no damage to the receiver. But, there won’t be a next time, at least not from Amazon.
My only “gripe” about the product itself, is that it is not XM radio ready. Other than that, it a great receiver.
Rating: 1 / 5
By Mel Renee, June 26, 2010 @ 6:49 pm
This is my first receiver. I did some research before deciding on this unit. The main reason I bought the TX-8255 was because it has a phono jack. My turntable is 15 years old and would not work on this receiver. I was told I needed a preamp after I already had the receiver. I bought the preamp and the turntable still wouldn’t work. I ended up buying a new turntable after much frustration. If, on the description for the TX-8255, it stated that it wouldn’t work on a turntable as old as mine , it would have saved me all the frustration. It seems to be a good receiver, but I haven’t had it long enough to rate the durability.
Rating: 4 / 5
By lighten_up_already2, June 26, 2010 @ 9:23 pm
I’ll give Onkyo credit for getting anything halfway decent sounding and simple to operate out there for $200 or less. And, I’ll even say that the sound coming out of this little thing was clear and detailed, but something was just missing.
I couldn’t figure it out, so I decided to have a “battle of the stereos” between this unit and my old 36lb 1973 Marantz 2275 that I bought used for about $180 about ten years ago. Well, that was quite an eye, or should I say ear, opener.
I even discovered that I could play an MP3 player through the Marantz unit simply by attaching it to the Aux input with a 3.5mm to RCA splitter adapter cable. I just had to turn the volume up more to compensate for the lower level input from the MP3 player. That discovery was made while doing the MP3 player comparison.
I still can’t find the exact vocabulary to describe the difference, but all the detail I heard on the Onkyo unit was there on the Marantz, but the Marantz seems to have a “soul” — for lack of a better word — that this little Onkyo doesn’t, even though this Onkyo unit is rated at 40W per channel and should have had more than enough power to drive the little speakers in my office. And, I can’t even give myself credit for the “soul” analogy because I got that idea from someone who reviewd a low-end Sony two channel receiver. At least now I get what a “zombie receiver” sounds like. Everything is there but something ain’t quite right. It’s missing a personality.
So, Onkyo is going back right after I listen to it one more time and try to put words around what I’m hearing, or not hearing.
OK, so as best as I can describe, the unit sounded like it was heavy on the bass and treble and missing something in the midrange. Perhaps it is optimized to produce the kind of music popular today, that thumping bass and techno stuff at the high end. Who knows, I just know I didn’t want a long term relationship with this, but the bang for the buck certainly is there, and it’s a step up from the boom box if you invest in some nice speakers.
Rating: 2 / 5
By Scott W. Porter, June 26, 2010 @ 10:25 pm
Onkyo TX-8255 Stereo Receiver
Well, It looked like a good bet to replace my 25 year old Marantz SR940. I had half the power, but phono input,2 tape I/O’s,and several other inputs. looked like a good deal. I gave away the big OLD Marantz and waited….
When it arrived I quickly hooked things up (the ipod dock was a joke- it got returned immediately). The volume and quality sound were good for such an affordable receiver. My turntable was all set but the phono input fed a lot of silence to the speakers… after reading the manual several times and trying add-on pre-amps I determined the phono circuit was DOA.
Then I tried my tape decks… both worked as tape 1, but neither would work as tape 2, just more silence.
After days of banging my head against the wall this will also be returned.
The 2 main reasons I picked it did NOT work.
Rating: 1 / 5