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Onkyo Reinvents Hi-Fi With New Powered Speakers and Streaming Audio

Onkyo preps new budget-friendly active speakers and a line of high-end streaming amplifiers at CES 2025.

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TV and home video editor Ty Pendlebury joined CNET Australia in 2006, and moved to New York City to be a part of CNET in 2011. He tests, reviews and writes about the latest TVs and audio equipment. When he's not playing Call of Duty he's eating whatever cuisine he can get his hands on. He has a cat named after one of the best TVs ever made.
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The Creator speakers feature extensive inputs and integrated wooden stands.

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Onkyo has unveiled two new types of audio products at CES 2025, as part of its hi-fi reinvention, with powered speakers that can be paired with TVs and a series of streaming amplifiers.

The new devices, which follow the Klipsch Flexus collaboration, include the Onkyo GX10DB and Onkyo GX30ARC powered monitors, plus the Icon P-80 network preamplifier, M-80 power amplifier and A-50 network integrated amplifier.

The Creator Onkyo GX10DB ($199) and Onkyo GX30ARC ($299) active speakers are designed to be used on a desktop, and yet offer enough inputs to be used as a stereo system or even as a soundbar substitute (GX30ARC). These include Bluetooth, USB-C, Optical, RCA/iPhone, RCA Sub Pre-Out and Aux, while the GX30 adds HDMI.

The GX10 comes with a 3-inch woofer and 17x2-watt power while the larger GX30ARC has 25x2W power pushing a 4-inch woofer. Both models sport 3/4-inch tweeters and wooden stands which help point the speakers at a users' ears. Both sets of speakers are due in the spring.

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The Onkyo Icon A-50 is a striking streaming amplifier.

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Meanwhile, Onkyo's new hi-fi products go all-out for streaming with the P-80 network preamplifier ($1,999) and A-50 network integrated amplifier ($1,499) leading the pack. The Onkyo Icon A-50 (140 watts per channel) looks quite compelling as an all-in-one with its attractive styling. Both devices will stream Spotify Connect, Tidal Connect, Amazon Music, AirPlay 2 and Google Cast and are Roon Ready. The M-80 ($1,999), with its 150-watts-per-channel amplifier and analog meters, is designed to pair with the P-80. The hi-fi products are due in the fourth quarter of 2025. 

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Onkyo Icon P-80 and M-80 preamp and power amp.

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Onkyo has had streaming amps in the past, but like many recent Onkyo products, they were a reskin of the equivalent Pioneer ones. These new devices are designed to reestablish an identity for the company and hearken back to its hi-fi components of the 1970s and '80s in particular.

For more coverage of CES 2025, check out this robot vacuum that can pick up dirty laundry, or learn all about Nvidia's new gaming chips.

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