The less time you have, the more you should make of it.

“A home theater receiver seems like too much, since I don’t have enough free time to watch very much TV.”

It’s a common objection. Many of us indeed don’t have as much free time as we used to. And there are certainly better things you could do with that scarce free time. But even if you only get to spend the occasional evening watching a movie or bingeing a few episodes of a TV show, well…

If you only get to do something a little bit, don’t you want to make the most of it?

If you only ate beef once a year, you probably wouldn’t make it a single from White Castle. If you only had time to go swimming once this summer, you wouldn’t want it to be in a plastic kiddie pool. If you only got to attend one sporting event in your lifetime, you wouldn’t choose the Twins against the Diamondbacks on a chilly Tuesday night in April.

This Onkyo receiver is the prime rib, the saltwater infinity pool, the college basketball championship final of receivers. As we’ve explained at length, its Atmos sound system adds a vertical channel to the usual horizontal surround channels, for a 3D field of truly surround sound. With the right arrangement of speakers (not included) and watching the right movie, you’ll hear things whizzing overhead, soaring into the sky, zooming down at you. A lot of movie theaters still don’t have that technology. It’s literally some next-level shit. (Uh, literally next-level, we mean, not literally shit.)

In addition to the usual inputs receivers have for bringing your TV, game console, stereo system, DVD player, etc. together, this also has WiFi, AirPlay, and Bluetooth for built-in connections to your streaming services of choice. It’s more than ready to integrate all of your home entertainment options together like a good receiver should.

This Onkyo receiver helps movies and TV really punch you in the face with entertainment during the brief moment you have together. If you don’t have much time to watch, you also don’t have much time to waste.