Josuah said:
YPAO is an automatic parametric equalizer. Not to be confused with a manual equalizer or a graphic equalizer. The Yamaha receivers also provide a manual graphic equalizer, but it's one or the other, not both. If you decide that you're unhappy with the YPAO equalizer settings, you cannot tweak them. You have to do graphic equalization manually.
This is not true at all. On the RXV2500/2600/4600 you can manually adjust the PEQ, you can set the frq, the Q and the gain. You can even stack the bands on top of each other if needed, just like any PEQ. This is the very reason I bought the Yamaha over the Denon. The only fault is, it does not have enough frq choices. The choices are something like this. 63.5, 78, 99, 125, 150, 215, 300, 500, 800, 1000, 1200, 2200, 3500, 5000, 8000, 10000, 12000, 16000. That is not exact but close. Because you can set the Q and the gain or cut, it is much better than just a 7 band graphic eq.
You can also store presets that you have made, you could have one for music, one for TV, one for movies, etc. I ran the auto setup set to check flat, then I measured what it did with my Behringer DEQ-24/96 PEQ, then I went back and tweaked it a little and saved it as a new custom preset. This is something I do not think any other receiver or processor can do at the moment. Very cool indeed.
