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View full profile. Read the Complete Thread. Motobis posts on March 09, I'm into day 2 of my new RX-V and the last time I had surround sound was in the early 80's with a Sansui with a rear channel decoder so I can say good surround sound has come a long way since then. I was puzzled with one instruction I found in the manual though.
It said to not use both the pre-amp out and have speakers hooked up to the speaker output as well on the same outs. On the front stereo pair I have a pair of Infinity towers hooked up to the speaker output and have a Crown XL Power Amp coming off of the Pre-amp out for the front stereo pair powering a pair of JBL A's and it works just fine.
Anybody have any ideas why they might advise that? I'm thinking of getting one of these. Hey Vol Fan, are you in the Knoxville area? This is the exact setup I am planning on buying…. I may not be doing something right as I am still learning about the unit.
Can anyone offer any suggestions here? He posted that early in Jan. So your advice is probably generally true, but I just point this out. His advice to have the player output bitstream may only apply to a receiver like the pio. So maybe if you have an O7 and want it to handle the LFE bug right, you have your br player output bitstream. Then if you want to hear the audio commentary on a movie, switch it to PCM. Concerning the audio from the commentary and from the movie being done at the same time… this only applies to people that have HDMI 1.
Because all these processes for audio decoding for multiple audio streams such as a commentary and the feature film you must have it do the decoding and conversion to uncompressed PCM.
Again I say there is no audio loss through doing this, it is the prefered way of handling sound on Blu-ray players. The only thing that will be different is that the receiver will not show a Dolby TrueHD logo, it will instead be receiving multichannel lossless PCM.
John posts on December 18, Works well. For example, there are only two HDMI inputs, while every other midrange receiver includes at least three--several include four. Most competitors also offer i or p analog upconversion, but the RX-V is limited to p and its video processing is below average. We also ran into some other quirks, such as an incorrect autosetup warning and the poorly designed rear panel layout.
On the top half, there's a centered orange LCD display, which we found easily readable from about 8 feet back. Directly beneath that are several small buttons, allowing access to less frequently used functions such as "Memory" and "Zone 2 control. On the bottom half, under the LCD display, are four "Scene" buttons which we'll explain shortly , along with a couple of additional knobs for selecting a source or a DSP digital sound processing mode.
AV receiver remotes are often a cluttered mess, but the RX-V's clicker is actually pretty good. There's a direction pad in the center and just to the right are the main controls for volume. Source buttons are nicely separated, as are Yamaha's "Scene" buttons. All in all, it's one of the better remotes for a receiver. Yamaha clearly puts a lot of focus on its "Scene" functions, and although the idea has promise, we didn't find the current implementation to be that useful.
Since we generally prefer to leave the DSP modes off, we didn't find this helpful. We'd prefer if the Scene functions also let us set a default volume level for each scenario. That's pretty much the standard at this price point, although it's worth pointing out that the competing and cheaper Sony STR-DG includes a basic graphical user interface.
One unusual design annoyance is the abnormal back panel layout of the RX-V For some reason, the audio and video inputs for each device are separate, so, for example, you'd run the yellow composite video cable from your Nintendo Wii to the far right-hand side, while the red and white analog audio cables would go on the far left.
It's likely to cause a rat's nest of tangled wires on many home theater systems, as well as forcing you to separate many cables that bundle video and audio connections together.
Setup Yamaha's Parametric Room Acoustic Optimizer YPAO automatic speaker calibration system determines speaker sizes and volume levels, measures the distances from the speakers to the listener, confirms that all of the speaker cables are correctly hooked up, and uses equalization to balance the frequency response of all the speakers.
Plugging in the supplied Optimizer microphone automatically brought up the Auto Setup menu on our display, so it was easy to get to started. Checking the connections at the speaker and receiver ends we found that the wires were, in fact, correctly placed. We have no idea why the YPAO made a false reading, but that didn't seem to otherwise affect the results of the setup.
We completed the setup without any further hassles, but we bet less-experienced users would have been confused. The RX-V is underfeatured compared with the competition. For key features, that means that instead of getting analog upconversion to p or i--which nearly all of its competitors have--you're stuck with simple p upconversion.
The connectivity of the RX-V comes up short as well. We were also surprised to find that we could only connect five video devices at the same time to the RX-V Sure, it has more inputs and outputs for additional devices, but there are only enough input "slots" such as DVR or DVD for five devices.
There are a couple of worthwhile features that don't show up on the chart. With the YDS, you'll be able to use the onscreen interface to browse your iPod music collection. You're still stuck with the old-school blocky white text, but it gets the job done. Multiroom support is right in line with the competition. There's second zone functionality either using the line level outputs or the powered speaker-level outputs.
Note that using the second zone speaker-level outputs require you use the would-be surround back channels of a 7. The massive power demands required to play the sounds of a series of depth charge explosions have humbled lesser receivers, but the RX-V sailed through the challenge with ease.
The receiver sounded more powerful than its 95 watts per channel specification would normally indicate; the Yamaha had the sort of big, gutsy sound we associate with more expensive receivers. Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill's raucous guitars had plenty of grit, and the surround ambiance of the hometown crowd wrapped seamlessly around the CNET listening room. We used the Sunshine Blu-ray for these listening tests.
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