In addition to the Apple and Android apps, Yamaha offers a third alternative for people who hate A/V receiver remote controls. Just look up the receiver’s numerical IP address (under Network in the onscreen user interface), type it into a Web browser, and a spiffy-looking Web control ap...
A rich, vibrant string sound is something I expect any good receiver to deliver. The Haydn: Complete Symphonies 33-CD boxed set (Brilliant Classics) was almost too easy a test. The 104 symphonies that Adam Fischer and the Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra recorded over a 14-year period always...
Yamaha’s first flagship receiver under the Aventage brand was the RX-A3000, which was the first Yamaha receiver to adequately uphold the high standard that was set two years earlier by the now almost legendary RX-Z7. The A3000 offered similarly robust build quality and power as the Z7, bu...
One problem I have with the RX-V4A is that this is not a cheap receiver. At this price, I expect at least seven channels, it will after all outcompete the soundbars. I therefore feel the time has past for pure 5.1 receivers, at leat if they are not £300 super-cheap. Photo: Y...
Of course, the RX-A2070 headlines Dolby Atmos and DTS:X decoding, and it includes the nine amplification channels needed to power a 5.2.4channel (or 7.2.2) layout, with no outboard power amplifiers required. The receiver also incorporates Yamaha’s extensive expertise in digital signal processi...
A receiver that listens to the room sounds better. Home theater has its sweet spots. In the surround sound arena, the slickest compromise between "in a box" basics and "cost no object" indulgences would have to be the $999 A/V receiver. History tells us
The Yamaha failed only 2:2 HD and 2:2 SD in both the analog and digital tests—a common shortcoming among the AVRs we’ve tested. Its analog (horizontal) chroma resolution was MIA on the highest test burst only, which in our experience does not result in obvious visual degradation.—TJN...