Onkyo SV-919THX / TX-SV919THX (circa 1994)
The archive's own fact file on the Onkyo SV-919THX is thin, but the period press fills in the main story. It is catalogued here as the SV-919THX and appears in contemporary material as the TX-SV919THX. Onkyo announced it in June 1994 as the world's first Home THX-certified audio/video receiver and shipped it alongside a matching System-1 THX speaker package. Audio (September 1994, p.181) covered the introduction.
HiFI-Stereo (August 1994, p.29) tested the receiver and documented the amplifier ratings: 50 watts to each of the two surround speakers at less than 0.08% THD, and 110 watts per channel in the two-channel Bypass stereo mode. Audio (January 1996, p.132) later called the receiver an exceptional unit. It was perhaps not the equal of the best high-end A/V separates, but it combined THX certification with convincing all-around performance. Onkyo's own advertising in HiFI-Stereo (January 1995, p.172) made the most of Stereo Review technical editor David Ranada's verdict that it was the best A/V receiver he had ever tested.
Beyond that, the record is thin: no original price, no full specification sheet, and no end-of-production date are documented. What survives is enough to place the SV-919THX among the notable home-theater landmarks of the mid-1990s.
- THX-certified A/V receiver — announced June 1994 as the world's first Home THX receiver
- Surround outputs: 50 W/ch into two surround speakers, <0.08% THD
- Stereo Bypass mode: 110 W/ch
- Companion System-1 THX speaker package announced at introduction
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