I purchase several brands of receivers including denon, marantz, sony, yamaha, etc. ....I gave up on denon and marantz since they break every year or so.... the last marantz I purchased was $3K and it was busted right out of the box... these are all new not used, not refurbished, not from an open box....
Anyway, I bought 7 or 8 yamahas this year because they are supposed to last a bit longer than the other junk on the market today...
I bought several receivers and separate crown power amplifiers ONLY bcause I cannot adjust the rear speakers on all three yamahas that are running 4 HT - I just split a toslink out form each source [cable box, dvd player, bluetooth, etc.] and run the rear speakers with a differnt amp or receiver so I can adjust the volume. I have 4 Home thearters with 5 separate crown amplifiers, 6 receivers [yamaha] just to get the rear, or rear surrounds to play loud enough...
I microphone included with each yamaha receiver DOES NOT WORK..... [rear channel speakers, rear surrounds, etc canot be heard]!
I have searche here and on the Internet - nothing on point. ...only a lot of garbage about small large speaker settings.
What I am looking for is: INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO OVERRIDE OR CANCEL THE AUTO SETTINGS FROM THE MICROPHONE WHICH IS KEEPING MY REAR CHANNEL SPEAKERS TOO LOW
...who designs this garbage?
HDMI is another sewer piece of technology that I attempt to avoid. ...every switch the channel using a remote only to lose the signal and get a dumb message - no connection - change your HDMI cable.....?????