Yamaha Silent Cinema Feature

[Cozmo]

I know there a few Yamaha fans here so I wanted to throw this out there for comments/opinion. My next receiver needs to have a headphone jack so I can watch movies without waking up my family. Has anyone out there used this feature? How does it compare to true 5.1/7.1? Any other receivers/pre-pros out there with a similar feature?

 

[Cozmo]

Also.......does anyone have any decent headphone recommendations?

Thanks

 

[Exit]

I have a Yamaha with that feature but I never tried it out. Everything you want to know about headphones is at Headroom at www.headphone.com I bought the cheapest Senheiser sealed set and I am pleased with it. Headroom has headphones from about $29 to four or five hundred. They recommend a Grado which is around $29 I think which is supposed to be a fine sounding headphone.

 

[ParadigmDawg]

I have never used the feature either.

Sony makes one of the better headphones at a reasonable price. I forget the model but I am sure Andrew can pipe in here and remind me.

 

[Nomo]

I occasionaly use the silent cinema feature.
The surround simulation that Yamaha has to offer is actually not bad. It certainly doesn't compare with using the speakers, but it's not bad.
That's talking movies.

As far as music; I use Pure Direct. The Yamaha DSPs and the Dolby/DTS decoders sound don't sound so good.

 

[Cozmo]

Thanks for the information, I'll have to check out that headphone site. I haven't seen this feature before on other receivers, but until now I really haven't been looking either. I'll have to check if something similar will be coming on the LMC-2.

 

[JJMP50]

I also have a Yamaha that has this feature, but have not used it yet. As far as Headphones, I bought a pair of Senheiser PX100 for 35 bucks and love them. Keep in mind, I only use them with an MP3 player, but they seem to really do the job.

Back to the Yamaha and compressed files, the Enhancement feature does a great job with my Roku Soundbridge both in 2 and 7 channel modes.

 

[Exit]

The specific headphone I use is the $60 Senheiser HD 212 Pro which is rated as a good value in sealed headphones by Headroom and is a little bass biased. Headroom rates the $70 Grado SR60 headphones as probably the best headphone under $100. I believe there are other reviewers that rate the Grado SR60 quite highly also. They are available at www.headphone.com but there are other headphone sales sites by googling "headphones".