Yamaha Drops Entry Price for Feature-laden Receivers

[admin]

According to an article at twice.com, Yamaha is launching four new A/V receivers that drop the price of entry for consumers looking for some of the hottest new technology available on the consumer electronics market.


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[GlocksRock]

Sounds like a great plan to me. This should induce some healthy competition that will benefit all.

[blruggles]

As a network administrator and someone that works in IT daily these "SCRIPT" features are long overdue on receivers in the audio market....

With all the various settings in todays HT receivers, it only makes sense to have preprogrammed settings that you can switch back and forth to. They should have at least 10.

Good to see Yamaha finally focus in on better end user controls and cost reduction.

Now if they can just do a better job on the Remote Controls, why can't they add a simple SEEK button on the RC to easily scan up and down on the FM tuner similar to an FM radio in a car.

[Bassman2]

Well at first I was worried because I JUST bought an RX-V659 but after reading the article I see the new stuff is nothing I either need or really want. Sure it would be nice to have a pre set volume but I just take the time between hitting power and when the relays click on, to hold the volume button down. Besides it all sounds like it could be put on a two dollar chip and that the only reason it wasn't on the receivers to begin with was to get people to spend up. Just my nickel... minus three pennies.

[angstadt530]

With the exception of the lack of pre-outs, this seems like the receiver I've been waiting for...

I know these receivers will support 6 and 8 ohm speakers, but would I be ok running 4 ohm speakers through one? My current speakers are 6 ohm, but I'm just wondering for future reference.

[j_garcia]

Well, sounds great as long as they aren't cutting corners somewhere else to make those prices profitable...as long as they keep their honest power numbers, the feature set looks great for the prices.

[jonnythan]

That's hotter than your mom.

[Tsunamii]

Great price point. A white box running LMC and a couple of these and a multi zone setup starts looking pretty cheap with some cool features to match it.

[zoran]

HDMI ver 1.3?

[jackdean101]

RX-V661 ($499) vs RX-V861 ($999)

I have read through the spec page on the Yamaha website and I can't figure out what the big difference is between these two recievers. The only thing I can come up w/ is 15 w per channel, and I don't believe that grants the $500 difference.

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