
Spiffyfast
Audioholic General
I must say I used to be completely against HTIB systems afer hearing what a higher end system could do. I received a Sony HTIB for christmas a few years ago from my father and was happy with it until I heard a full Kef and Mcintosh set up. So when my dad up and decided he wanted surround sound for one of the living rooms in our house and bought a HTIB I was very dissapointed. He brought home a Yamaha YHT550, it comes with an HTR 5730, Yamaha dvd player (can't think of the model), and a 5.1 sattelite system. I was dissapointed that he didn't let me pick a system out for him but grudgingly decided to hook everything up for him (made him go buy an HDTV to go with his new system, 25" rca wasn't gonna cut it anymore). I've never used a Yamaha before and was appreciative of all the settings that can be tweaked with this receiver. Once I got it set up decided to put in a dvd, had gladiator sitting down stairs, and started to watch the movie. For sattelites there is some nice sound coming out of these little speakers and the processing of the receiver was great, ended up liking some of the DSP's that are loaded on there, I think Adventure was my favorite.
After watching the movie and being impressed, I decided to see how it would perform with music. Swiped a Green Day Cd from my little brother and put the Yammy on 5 channel stereo, couldnt believe this sound was coming from those tiny speakers and the bass wasn't too shabby either, got to cranking it up, I know new system I should have gave it some time to break in but it was too tempting, needless to say, about 5 minutes into the cd the neighbor from across the street came banging on the door and was extremely angry, probably more b/c he had been there for longer I just didnt hear it
So, after some broken picture frames down stairs and an angry neighbor I have to say my dad may a pretty good choice. I think this just goes to show that no one should ever buy a sony HTIB system....ever......ever......ever. This Yammy system puts mine to shame hands down and kind of shows that a HTIB set up can be perfectly fine depeing on the use its going to incur. Now Ill just have to make my dad jelous when I buy my paradigm and marantz set up
After watching the movie and being impressed, I decided to see how it would perform with music. Swiped a Green Day Cd from my little brother and put the Yammy on 5 channel stereo, couldnt believe this sound was coming from those tiny speakers and the bass wasn't too shabby either, got to cranking it up, I know new system I should have gave it some time to break in but it was too tempting, needless to say, about 5 minutes into the cd the neighbor from across the street came banging on the door and was extremely angry, probably more b/c he had been there for longer I just didnt hear it