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hmm I need to check that as its quite a useful feature that may be lacking on the 3900.

Um I strongly disagree that it has to be DBT. If the listeners are unaware of the speakers they are listening to they can still make relatively excellent unbiased judgements. I often do quick comparisons of speaker pairs when doing reviews without any DBT or ABT testing and its easy to hear...

Hi all; Just running a quick poll here to determine what helps you the most in your A/V purchasing decisions. Please feel free to comment including recent purchases and experiences on this site that helped to guide your decision. I have a 3 meter Velocity Impact Acoustics HDMI cable I...

If your going with this MCM speaker package, I'd stongly encourage you to consider 2 of the tsC ASW-8 subwoofers. They are small compact and powerful and super cheap. I was floored by their performance and they would be a perfect fit for these speakers...

Yes it does! I just tested this. It will not downconvert the HDMI audio if you just turn on the other zones. You must use "Party Mode" for it to do it. I still recommend running an extra pair of analog cables from your DVD player to the Z7 as a backup though....

This speaker system wins the Audioholics award for least expensive system ever reviewed! Regardless of the economy, there are no excuses for people on a shoestring budget NOT to get into hometheater with these babies :)

I believe it does since I listen to DVD's in my other zones but I also connected analog cables to my DVD player as well. I will check on this and get back... BTW, thanks for the correction on the mini remote. Apparantly Yamaha missed that in my review when they tech peered it. The Mini...

the article is a general guideline. You should also go for better than the minimum recommendation in a way that Jennifer Aniston should always wear more flair than the minimum in the movie Office Space ;)

Don't EVER use 18AWG speaker cable for high end audio. Follow the guidelines in this article: http://www.audioholics.com/education/cables/speaker-cable-gauge

Understood and I am not questioning your intent or trustworthiness. However, if I purchased credit from a company in promise they would one day deliver a product, and later realized it would never happen, I'd be demanding my money back. You might want to persue that route in case you can't...

I guess I am at a loss as to why you simply cannot get your money back from AV123 since they didn't ship you your products?

Not likely.

I would get their center. Makes no sense to get their tower speaker, especially at a cost premium.

I'd go with an XPA-2 for the mains and power the rest with the Z7 amps.

No and I don't know of any consumer products that can.

Simultaneous HDMI Output All; According to my source at Yamaha, the RX-Z7 will do simultaneous output of both HDMI outputs and scale to the display with the lowest resolution unless you force it higher which is why you have control of output 1 or 2.

I have the following items for sale from my reference system: Denon AVR-5805mkii upgraded to 1080p and in flawless condition Yamaha LPX-510 LCD Projector (mint condition) RBH MC-6C speakers (mint condition) RBH MC-414C center channel (Brand new) Earthquake XJ-600 Subwoofer amplifier...

No NAD gets little to no internet coverage from any of the online magazines. We've requested review samples several times and never got a response. Years ago we asked their Marketing Director at CES for a review sample of their DVD player and they said if we do any objective testing they would...

No I never got around to ordering one. Do you guys think its good value add for me to start measuring case temperatures of receivers when I review them to better determine your installation options?

Wow thats alot. I will answer as much as I can until my ADD kicks in ;) Yes the Z7 has a phono input. Not sure how good it is b/c I didn't test it. Its always best to send bitstream from your blu-ray to the receiver if the bluray can do it. Multi PCM is also good b/c you are still...