last night before going to bed i turned on the receiver with the remote app from my bedroom on my iPad2 and set the volume and selected it to play all from my NAS so that i could run a little bit of a stress test and also make sure the app was working properly. my girlfriend told me this morning that i left some music playing in the basement. i said that's great news cause i turned it on from the iPad while laying in bed to performe the test. she thought that was kinda cool!
while it wasn't an incredibly loud volume (and i don't listen to things at incredibly loud volumes either) i did test for 2 things. one was that the unit would fail or quit from a fault of running for more than 6 hours straight. the second was to see how hot the unit would be from being on at a volume that i would be using real world for an extended period of time.
well it passed both test with flying colors. it was almost barely noticable temp wise and considering it was on for 10hrs non stop and the fact that it's an Onkyo and in the past, they did run hot, this was a good thing. they have come a long way in how they build and heat sink their amp sections. yes, i know it's a small amp section but i'm still happy to see how cool it actually is here at 10am EST considering i turned it on yesterday at 11pm!
so far, everything is working out just fine. i can see from some of the post that some of you are not happy about the unit with your reasons given; i respect them of course. as an owner of the unit, and my needs for my small secondary HT it is more than enough and it's got all the features i could want and need in it for it's intended use. i still highly recommend this unit to anyone. price to performance, dollar for dollar, so far i see this unit as incredible buy.
glad and proud i went with it. this is todays Onkyo!