Yamaha RX-V2700

[Mark E. Long]

Hi guys got question on this receiver how can you engage front presence speakers and BACK surround speakers at same time its either one or the other my older rx-v3000 you could play all any ideas

 

[AVRat]

If I recall correctly, as you said, it can't. That's the way it was designed. It shouldn't matter anyway, since very rarily will audo be in both areas at the same time.

 

[GlocksRock]

You can't, it's one or the other, if you want a 9.1 setup, you will need a newer receiver.

 

[Pyrrho]

If I recall correctly, as you said, it can't. That's the way it was designed. It shouldn't matter anyway, since very rarily will audo be in both areas at the same time.

You seem confused about this, as there is never anything with discrete material for the front presence speakers. That is artificially generated in all cases, and one could want it with any number of other channels.


As GlocksRock says, with the RX-V2700, one can engage either the rear surround or the front presence speakers (or neither one), but not both at the same time. You will need to look for a different receiver if you want both at the same time, and be careful in your selection, as Yamaha has made quite a few receivers that are like the RX-V2700 in this regard.

 

[Mark E. Long]

Thanks for the input guys it just seemed a little odd to have all those speakers and not be able to turn them all on on some decoder . My old one is rx-v3000 bought this from a salon left over stock its quite the machine sounds good withe my carvers ,was going to put it in a smaller setup but its to nice not to use in my main room Thanks again

 

[audioAl]

5.1 or 7.1

Mark, I recently purchased th RX-465 HTreceiver for my bedroom listening. I use it in a HTPC setup, my sound card is an Asus Xonar DS-R and will do DTS neo for pc it allows interactive, do you have a HTPC?

 

[Pyrrho]

Thanks for the input guys it just seemed a little odd to have all those speakers and not be able to turn them all on on some decoder . My old one is rx-v3000 bought this from a salon left over stock its quite the machine sounds good withe my carvers ,was going to put it in a smaller setup but its to nice not to use in my main room Thanks again

I agree, it is odd that Yamaha did not make it so that both could be used at the same time. Even though I can see them not wanting to put in two more channels of amplification, they could have had preamp outputs for using a stereo power amplifier for the other channels. Since they did not do that (and did many other receivers the same way in this regard), my guess is that there is some limitation in the processing chip that they used in that model, such that the chip can handle only 7.1 channels at a time, not the 9.1 that would be required for all to be engaged at once.

In many respects, though, the RX-V2700 is a fine receiver; here you can read a review of it:

http://www.audioholics.com/reviews/receivers/yamaha-rx-v2700-receiver-review

And it is also a receiver with which I am personally familiar, as I use one in my home theater system. I have no plans on upgrading it ever, as I do not require one that passes 3D and my BD (Blu-ray) player decodes the new formats and passes them as multichannel PCM via HDMI to the receiver, so I have that covered.

I have never tried the presence channels, as I am renting and would have trouble physically putting in the presence channel speakers.

 

[Mark E. Long]

rx-v2700

Thanks for the reply gentlemen yes it is odd my old rx-v3000 can engage all at one time but it uses what they call a back center and front presence at the same time. I assumed the back surround on this one was like a back center aswell.like i said this is way newer to me .Use it as preamp got carver TFM-35x amps hooked to all but the presence ,use the 2700 to power these ,two JBL subs hooked up on a y- splitter ,I must admit it does sound awesome .the sound fields are newer and more advanced set up than i'm used too but i enjoy playing with this unit. keep in mind this is new tech to me .the rx-v3000 is a beast but is limited in what it can do . love the gui on the new one a bit mind boggling at first Thanks

 

[Pyrrho]

You can download the manual for the RX-V2700 at Yamaha's web site if you need it. I think you will have to register with the site to do that, but it is free.

 

[Mark E. Long]

RX-v2700

Thank ya much came with one did discover that when you set front presence to priority and dolby or DTS ex surround they all play at once not so in 7 ch stereo at least it works with bluerays and muti ch music dvds this seems to be what iam after .this was a store leftover from local high end audio store only paid 450.00 it its new never been opened and wat more advanced than iam used to LOL !! thanks