Received a Yamaha rx-v2500. HELP!

[mikeweezer80]

Hey guys, I am new and need some help. Recently I acqured a musichall mmf2.2 and the musichall phono stage in order to listen to it through my VERY cheap standard bookshelf stereo. My brother just gave me an interesting looking receiver called the rx-v2500. He used it for home theater and upgraded so he donated this to me. can you please help with these questions?

1. How is this receiver's performance when it comes to it being a 2 channel device? (I have no plans for home theater).

2. I see there is a phono stage, is it of good quality? If not I can use my phono stage, however, i dont know which inpt it should go in. Should i plug my phono stage INTO the yamahas phono input? or do i just plug it in to tape/md/cd/ etc channel?

If i sound uneducated with these questions, it is because i am uneducated in this field haha.

 

[Nomo]

I can't speak of the quality of the phono section, but if you have a phono pre-amp it will most likely be better that than of the Yamaha.
As far as the 2 channel performance of the 2500; I'd rate it as stellar.
As I recall it was rated at 130watts per channel and probably bench tested at around 60+ watts into 2 channels.
As long as your speakers aren't 4 ohm that unit should do quite well.

 

[Tomorrow]

To my ears, the phono section is superb on the RX-V2500.

It likely benches >130 wpc x 2 into 8 ohms.

My mains dip to 2.8 ohms (but 6 ohm nominal) and it the 2500 handles them fine.

I think you have a very nice brother. That's a good piece of gear.

 

[mikeweezer80]

thanks for answering but where should i plug in my phone section? which input?

 

[TLS Guy]

thanks for answering but where should i plug in my phone section? which input?

No phono preamp the phono input, if you use a preamp, any line level input, but not the phono input.

 

[PENG]

To my ears, the phono section is superb on the RX-V2500.

It likely benches >130 wpc x 2 into 8 ohms.

My mains dip to 2.8 ohms (but 6 ohm nominal) and it the 2500 handles them fine.

I think you have a very nice brother. That's a good piece of gear.

You are correct. I remember seeing some test reviews, this is one that can be found easily:

http://www.hometheatermag.com/floorloudspeakers/605klipsch/index2.html

....................with two channels driving 8-ohm loads, reaches 0.1% distortion at 158.8 watts and 1% distortion at 178.2 watts. Into 4 ohms, the amplifier reaches 0.1% distortion at 198.1 watts and 1% distortion at 242.6 watts.

There is another one by Audioholics that said it drove their 4 ohm RBH 1266 LSE.

 

[PENG]

thanks for answering but where should i plug in my phone section? which input?

You may want to try bypassing your phono stage altogether and just plug your turntable outputs directly into the RX-V2500's phono inputs to see which way you like better but make sure you either do that or, as TLSG said, plug into the line level one's such as the MD/Tape In (see page 25 here:http://www.yamaha.ca/av/PDFs/Manuals/2004_receivers/RXV2500E.pdf) if you use your phono stage.