Yamaha are well known for their 'natural' sound. Having owned previous Yamaha AV kit, I purchased this receiver and was very impressed with the sound - it's very clear and expansive. It is very good for both music and movies. It has onboard decoding for the latest compressed audio standards ... Read review
Advantages: Great sound and all the compressed audio formats Disadvantages: No HDMI
Yamaha are well known for their 'natural' sound. Having owned previous Yamaha AV kit, I purchased this receiver and was very impressed with the sound - it's very clear and expansive. It is very good for both music and movies. It has onboard decoding for the latest compressed audio standards eg Dolby Digital Ex and DTS. It is easy to set up with clearly marked inputs. It can accept virtually every piece of AV kit you can think of.
The ... ...spring clips which don't accomodate thick speaker wire well and are liable to break. All the buttons and dial feel solid and demonstrate the quality of the build.
It's a nice looking piece of kit and is a sort of brushed aluminium - in a champagne silver colour. I don't use the radio element of the receiver, so can't comment on that. There are lots of Digital Sound Processing modes, but I tend to stick with Prologic 2, Dolby Digital ... more
Yamaha are well known for their 'natural' sound. Having owned previous Yamaha AV kit, I purchased this receiver and was very impressed with the sound - it's very clear and expansive. It is very good for both music and movies. It has onboard decoding for the latest compressed audio standards eg Dolby Digital Ex and DTS. It is easy to set up with clearly marked inputs. It can accept virtually every piece of AV kit you can think of.
The speaker terminals are quality screw terminals as opposed to flimsy spring clips which don't accomodate thick speaker wire well and are liable to break. All the buttons and dial feel solid and demonstrate the quality of the build.
It's a nice looking piece of kit and is a sort of brushed aluminium - in a champagne silver colour. I don't use the radio element of the receiver, so can't comment on that. There are lots of Digital Sound Processing modes, but I tend to stick with Prologic 2, Dolby Digital and DTS for movies (depending on the source) and Stereo for music.
The only downsides are that it only has 1 optical in and 1 coaxial in. There are no HDMI inputs so it's not suitable for uncompressed audio from Blu Ray or HD-DVD players - but unless you have a really high quality set of surround sound speakers - you won't tell the difference.
