Advantages: Powerful, Capable and Brilliant Disadvantages: Expensive and Bulky
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The Yamaha only scores a satisfactory on the ease of use as it has just so many functions and so many capabilities it would just be impossible to make this thing simple. With a million different settings for the effect of the sound it can all get a little bit silly. You can set the Z9 to the acoustics of venues across the world, like cathedrals in certain cities or football stadiums. But really I’ve found its all too much like hard work and ... ...for the money you're paying it should do some things for itself.
When setting up a new system it will calibrate itself, once all the speakers are plugged in and set up. There is a microphone which you plug into the Z9 and then leave the room. The speakers will all kick out some sound and the Z9 will set them all up with the distances and delays automatically, saving you some time.
It has loads of inputs which i run all of my devices through, DVD ...
OllieBridges 02.08.2009
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