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Onkyo HT S5800 5 1 2 Channel Dolby Atmos Home Theater Package

Last Updated: November 25, 2018 (Refresh Now)

7.8

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/10

Total Reviews

607

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HDMI

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Sound Quality

187

surround sound, subwoofer, room, surround, onkyo

+87%

-13%

" ... The sound effects ... "

" ... Anyway, the sound quality is decent out of the system, especially for the low price. ... It’s cheaper and better than most sound bars. ... "

" ... Sleek and simple with great speakers for surround sound. ... "

" ... I'm very happy with a quality system, not just a sound bar set up. ... "

" ... Exceptional sound quality, front speakers are bigger than expected which who can complain about bigger and better :) ... "

" ... And much to my surprise, I'm most impressed by the passive sub. ... "

" ... Not a single one sounds good. ... "

" ... Bought for media room / computer speakers. ... "

Volume

living room, fills, subwoofer, sub, theater

+86%

-14%

" ... When it worked it was perfect for my grandma's bedroom - she could hear the audio clearly. ... "

" ... The front, rear, and center speakers fill the space nicely with sound, and there is plenty of volume. ... "

" ... Bought for media room / computer speakers. ... "

" ... It’s great for home theatre, 5.1 sound. ... "

" ... Great quality for a small room. ... Overall I would give it a thumbs up to anyone looking for a good sound system for a smaller sized room. ... "

" ... If your interest is loud noise by all means the newer systems are the ones for you. ... "

" ... This system turned a small room in my home into a better than any theatre experience. ... "

" ... Great sound for my 15x16 living room. ... Would work well in a bit larger of a room too. ... "

Price

great sound, spent, onkyo, buck, theatre

+97%

-3%

" ... Anyway, the sound quality is decent out of the system, especially for the low price. ... Anyway, despite the flaws, I’d recommend it given the price. ... "

" ... Awesome product, awesome price - highly recommended!! ... "

" ... Really good sound for the price. ... "

" ... Has all the options I needed at a good price. ... "

" ... Unless you’re a true audiophile, don’t go overboard spending another couple hundred dollars on a top of the line system unless you’re really going to be able to tell the difference. ... "

" ... Excellent value getting a good brand and whole set up for $249. ... "

" ... Great receiver for the money. ... "

" ... The removed stress for her is worth it alone the experience of great sound at this price point? ... "

Capacity

living room, theater, fills, theatre, home theater

+98%

-2%

" ... I have a 7.2 in my living room, and this one blows that away. ... "

" ... Bought for media room / computer speakers. ... "

" ... The speakers and sub are all reasonably sized and don’t look out of place in our living room. ... "

" ... Amazing system for the price it works great in my living room ... "

" ... Great quality for a small room. ... Overall I would give it a thumbs up to anyone looking for a good sound system for a smaller sized room. ... "

" ... Smoke filled the basement. ... "

" ... Home theatre gateway drug if there ever was one. ... "

" ... Bedroom is 24x18 and it fills the space nicely. ... Overall I'm pleased with the Onkyo HT-S7800 and I think it would be a great "entry" home theater system for anyone looking for a quick and easy setup. ... "

Setup

easy to install, onkyo, straight forward, easy to setup, easy to set

+94%

-6%

" ... Setting this up and getting going is easy. ... "

" ... The price was reasonable and it is simple to use once you have someone install it who knows how to make it work. ... "

" ... Great product and easy set up ... "

" ... Set up was a breeze. ... "

" ... It's a easy to install. ... "

" ... The instructions was an easy hook up with the wires I already had in the ceiling. ... "

" ... Easy to setup and menus that are easy to navigate. ... "

Ease of Use

setup, easy to set, easy to setup, s3800, onkyo

+100%

" ... Setting this up and getting going is easy. ... "

" ... The price was reasonable and it is simple to use once you have someone install it who knows how to make it work. ... "

" ... Great product and easy set up ... "

" ... Its that simple. ... "

" ... It's a easy to install. ... "

" ... Easy to hook up with the diagram on the back of the receiver. ... "

" ... Recommend this for simple solutions in small settings. ... "

" ... Easy to setup and menus that are easy to navigate. ... "

Product Reliability

weeks, stopped working, onkyo, unparalleled, terminate

+49%

-51%

" ... Brand new it was broken. ... "

" ... Now one day shy of six months old it's totally failed. ... "

" ... Included HT-R695 receiver failed catastrophically in less than three weeks of use. ... "

" ... Change rating due to second unit defective now . ... Yesterday March not even a yr and same things happening. ... "

" ... Not long after purchase the audio inputs stopped working . ... "

" ... I've had this about five months and it began to have problems. ... "

" ... A problem they have known about and refused to do anything about since as far back as 2007. ... "

Ports

receiver, inputs, onkyo, arc, hdmi port

+63%

-38%

" ... In the setup menu choose number 4, HDMI Setup. ... "

" ... Run the HDMI from your tv to your Xbox and an optical cord from the tv to the receiver. ... "

" ... I feel like the receiver is top of the line and easily switches inputs for all my hdmi dreams! ... "

" ... The receiver can be turned off and the attached HDMI devices can go through to the TV. ... They're is an option to select a default our last used as the pass through HDMI device. ... "

" ... Can use the receiver for a variety of things (Due to multiple HDMI ports), one of the many reasons i bought this product when compared to similarly priced competitors. ... "

" ... Had to go into hdmi setting and change it to 4:4:4 to get 4k hdr to work on ps4 and xbox 1. ... "

Resolution

dolby atmos, arc, blu ray, hdmi, dolby

+74%

-26%

" ... This system is definitely 4K but it took me a while to figure out how to set it up. ... That turns on your 4K. ... "

" ... recieved my home theater works well "so far " with Samsung 43 inch 4K tv ... "

" ... Nice that it was able to accept HDMI inputs and routed HDMI quality to the TV for true HD Quality viewing. ... "

" ... Video qualify for all of our components is great, with no apparent loss of video quality. ... I don't have much in the way of 4K content, but I tried streaming a couple 4K shows on Netflix and the resolution was great. ... "

" ... Although direct control of the HDMI devices is not possible, the ARC HDMI interface allows controlling the speakers volume using the TV's remote control. ... "

" ... HDR and 4k. ... Although trying to figure out how to get it to do 4k and HDR was complicated. ... Had to go into hdmi setting and change it to 4:4:4 to get 4k hdr to work on ps4 and xbox 1. ... "

Device Compatibility

thru, onkyo, ipad, bluetooth, xbox

+68%

-32%

" ... The pass thru, bluetooth, cd, and bluray work perfectly. ... "

" ... The receiver can be turned off and the attached HDMI devices can go through to the TV. ... "

" ... When it came to the HDR, the XBox did not recognize its the ability of the Onkyo system to pass thru to the TV ... "

" ... All speakers are wired ... "

Video Playback

watching, movie, first movie, watched, toy

+80%

-20%

" ... Passable for YouTube music videos. ... "

" ... For watching movies it does a good job, but not so much when listening to music. ... "

" ... I've watched several movies thru this unit and the woofer really delivers and you get a nice immersive experience while watching. ... "

" ... Video qualify for all of our components is great, with no apparent loss of video quality. ... "

" ... YouTube 5.1 videos sounded great for testing the Dolby features as well. ... "

" ... Movie night has never been more entertaining. ... "

Bass

sub, subwoofer, sub woofer, onkyo, tweeter

+79%

-21%

" ... And much to my surprise, I'm most impressed by the passive sub. ... "

" ... Sound quality is awesome, the bass from the sub is way better than I expected. ... "

" ... It is enough to "immerse" you in the movie, you can feel the bass and the sound fills the room. ... "

" ... Sub bass is velvety and rich, even at low-low volume. ... "

" ... Love this surround work amazing the sound and bass reflex are prestige. ... "

" ... The bass is really nice, not too much but not too little. ... "

" ... Speakers sound good and sub actually sound really good for a 6.5 subwoofer. ... "

Cables

wires, wire, onkyo, cable box, banana plugs

+71%

-29%

" ... Knowing my runs would be longer, I bought a 100' reel of 16 gauge wire and used a total of 99 feet of it for the fronts & rears. ... "

" ... It helped to have the different color coding on the different speakers and wires when it came to hooking them into the receiver. ... Now if they could just come up with a way to make fishing the wires through the wall easier :-) ... "

" ... 🤨 The end product Is a lot cleaner than having that spaghetti mess of white wires that it came with out-of-box. ... "

" ... The cable box transmits the AV to the X-Box and the pass-trough to the Onkyo system to the TV works great. ... "

" ... The sub is connected with speaker wire and not a sub cord. ... There are compatible speaker kits that are crimp clips, but the good ones are banana plugs. ... Do yourself a favor and buy a spool of 14 gauge speaker wire. ... I tried every sound parameter, doubled and tripled checked all my wires. ... "

" ... I would recommend buying bigger gauge wire as I did for better sound. ... "

Marketplace

contact, exactly, warehouse, told, system

+40%

-60%

" ... They asked me where I got it and I told them Amazon and then they told me to send it back and they could do nothing more for me. ... "

" ... Have tried to contact seller but no response from them and Onkyo themselves have yet to be of much help. ... "

" ... Buyer seriously beware! ... "

" ... I'll never buy anything from Amazon Warehouse because they don't have the same replacement policy. ... "

Delivery

arrived, weeks, unit, theatre, ordered

+71%

-29%

" ... While it was used it came packaged very well and the entire unit looked like a new one. ... "

" ... BOX WAS ALL BEAT UP WHEN I RECEIVED IT. ... "

" ... Arrived on time & in great condition. ... "

" ... As a side note, the unit I just ordered arrived looking brand new. ... "

" ... A great home theatre in a box. ... "

Bluetooth

ipad, receiver, bluetooth works, wonky, weeks

+88%

-12%

" ... I only use the Bluetooth feature, so I can't say much about the other features it has. ... "

" ... Blue tooth is easy to link to and sound quality using it is good. ... "

" ... I have always thought Onkyo had a very good sound for the price and this one delivers Bluetooth USB sounds good the only thing I don't like is that my TV does not have an audio return so I have to have the Onkyo receiver on to get any picture or sound to my TV but that's not a big deal definitely a lot of bang for the buck ... "

" ... The pass thru, bluetooth, cd, and bluray work perfectly. ... "

" ... Bluetooth is awesome. ... "

" ... Everything worked great for a few months until the Bluetooth wouldn't connect to my Ipad. ... IPhone would connect and receiver wouldn't drop it when I tried to change to Ipad. ... "

Remote

receiver, cec, separetely, remote to control, features

+73%

-27%

" ... And the new remote is much nicer . ... "

" ... I can power the unit back on with the remote, but it takes the fun out of an action movie when it happens four or five times. ... "

" ... I was able to set it up so that only one remote now controls the volume for all my devices without having to switch back and forth between a tv remote and receiver remote. ... I enabled CEC on the receiver setup (looks like a gear on the receiver remote) ... "

" ... must connect with optical cable and use separate remote to control the receiver. ... "

Controls

thru, receiver, hockey, george, certifies

+54%

-46%

" ... A few nice features are CEC control, ARC, Airplay and the ability to control the receiver with the Onkyo Control app from my iPhone. ... "

" ... The menu settings for speakers were identical to the Kenwood . ... "

" ... I was able to set it up so that only one remote now controls the volume for all my devices without having to switch back and forth between a tv remote and receiver remote. ... "

" ... I believe George has it completely under control if he certifies it the sound that comes out of your system will be exactly the way it was recorded. ... "

Returns

amazon, returning, told, warehouse, update the firmware

+8%

-92%

" ... not as described no speakers in the box sent back for refund ... "

" ... Can't say if I possibly got a bad unit, or not, but I wasn't satisfied and returned the unit. ... "

" ... The first unit I received was clearly a return item that was re-packed poorly and arrived badly damaged. ... "

" ... LOOKED LIKE IT HAD BEEN OPENED AND RETURNED ONCE BEFORE! ... "

" ... They asked me where I got it and I told them Amazon and then they told me to send it back and they could do nothing more for me. ... "

" ... I'll never buy anything from Amazon Warehouse because they don't have the same replacement policy. ... "

Build Quality

speaker wire, row, receiver, mounts, keyhole

+75%

-25%

" ... Well packaged in box, high quality parts that are well thought out, sleek, and heavy weight. ... "

" ... for the price and overall I'm happy with it however when I opened it up and took everything out, one of the plastic feet on the bottom of the sub woofer was completely broken off and in several pieces leaving it unable to sit level or properly on the floor. ... "

" ... No scratches, properly packaged, packing material in all the correct places. ... "

" ... The banana clips are long enough that they don't let the speakers hang flush against the wall, so I used the screw-down connections at the speakers themselves, and the banana clips at the receiver. ... I got screwed five times (three separate purchases, a higher price paid for 4-year protection, and now the system is cheaper). ... "

CD/DVD

dvds, dvd player, bluray, blu ray player, thru

+80%

-20%

" ... Installation included hooking it up to Cable TV and a DVD Player. ... "

" ... The pass thru, bluetooth, cd, and bluray work perfectly. ... "

" ... I ran device discovery under the CEC menu on the vizio for it to display my Apple TV and blu ray player. ... "

" ... After the DVD player in my old DVD/Home Theater system wouldn't play DVDs any more, I replaced the old system with the Onkyo HT-S7800. ... Old DVDs seem brand new when played through the HT-S7800 system. ... "

" ... (if you have a dvd collection dont bother. ... "

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Specifications

Body

Size: 4 meters

Connectivity

HDMI: Yes

Bluetooth: Yes

Display

Resolution: 4K

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