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when it comes to home theater Onkyo is one of the categories biggest names with its impressive receivers leading the way hi I'm ty Pendlebury and today I'm looking at the onkyo TX NR 636 receiver it's the company's latest mid-range receiver and while it continues the impressive work of previous years it also hasn't changed that much and this could be to its disadvantage the NL 636 is a 7.1 channel model which features pretty much any feature you could ask for the latest decoders including Dolby Atmos which is coming onboard Wi-Fi and even a turntable input the onboard Wi-Fi enables music streaming from services such as Spotify and Pandora and this also comes with Bluetooth support design-wise this is a pretty macho and intimidating looking machine but the inclusion of direct source buttons such as DVD and game are a big help for usability connectivity includes seven HDMI ports which interestingly includes support for the latest 2.0 and hdcp 2.2 standards there's no such thing as future-proof but this does get near to it as far as usability is concerned the remote has a few too many buttons especially when compared to the sleek Sony remote and the bare-bones menus are harder to read the most on any size to screen when it comes to performance though the six three six does very well with both convincing surround and musical performance the ability to stream and playback high res audio capably means this is a decent choice for audio files too at $600 the onkyo TX NR 636 is a little pricey but it offers a lot of features and solid performance but if you're looking for sound quality first I recommend the cheaper Sony TN 1050 instead this is ty Pendlebury for cnet.com you