Onkyo has filed for bankruptcy

I bought an incredibly well reviewed Onkyo tape deck in 1979. Honestly it looked good and sounded terrible. I replaced it with an ancient 1972 Nakamichi deck that sounded an order of magnitude better. Since then every exposure has solidified that Onkyo produces terrible sounding products with lots of buttons.

As an executive at Sharp for nearly 20 years I can assure you it as good match… nice looking poorly performing “branded” product.

Never owned anything Onkyo, nor would I want to, no big loss really....

I've owned two Onkyo products and both were great. TA-2090 Cassette deck and TSXR-876 HT receiver (in use for over 12 years, still making great sound).

Can't wait to see what the future holds for Onkyo.

I've owned several different HT receivers over the last 25 years, Onkyo, Sony, Denon and even an expensive B&K. The last 3 were all Onkyo and they easily bested the others, even the B&K. The B&K might have had better SQ, however, the user interface was so poor, compared to the Onkyo, that I could barely use it for everyday service. I'm a fan of Onkyo's higher-end HT receivers. Hope they come out of this OK.

I would never be anything but sad that a company and its employees would lose their jobs, but I would also never consider Onkyo as anything but a minor purveyor of low quality components. So I am very sorry for the company and its employees, but that's all.