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Love it. perfect for the basement and don't have to be an electrical engineer to set up.
:-) The subwoofer has a LOT of power - shakes my whole house (exactly what I wanted). System is good for TV stations too.
GREAT SOUND for the money though. Adcom amps are VERY EXPENSIVE.
I am an "audiophile" and therefore can hear SOME distortion compared to my Adcom basic amp, but I am NOT disappointed in the quality of sound for the price. Many of the bells & whistles I will never use.
This system sounds GREAT. I play CDs and DVDs mainly.
The receiver lacks a signal strength meter for the FM signal.
Honestly with an Onkyo or a Pioneer you won't go wrong they are right there. With this system you can adjust the treble and the bass and adjust that sound to the point of where you are sitting in your chair. You need to read. This Yamaha system screams RMS. The system sounded incredible but the volume only went so high and this was a 600$ plus system. The CD player would not play cds if the minimal amount of scratch was on them. I posted this because too many people lie about products today for their own interest. Sorry.
Infinity is too expensive. I owned the 321 bose surround sound system. are you ready, Pioneer, they make the best speaker for the price anywhere and they hold up period. That means it will wake up your neighbors on the next block. PS you need to read directions. Here comes 4. 2.
This system comes with dolby, dolby surround, Roxy theater, hall. Again the CD player would not play some movies. This system came with no powered sub woofer so I used that onkyo SKW 250. The directions tell you what size room your in adjust the setting so.
Yamaha in my experience is the best Home theater system out there. I have a Panasonic DVD player dvd-f87 and this baby plays them all. I firmly believe a good CD player with good over sampling can play CDS with some scuffle on them. A 20 rms speaker sounds better than any 100 watt rating because rms is the peak response which you hear.
4. Also you can't mix components you buy Bose it only works best with their own systems. Once again use a shielded 16 gauge wire and I must stress the difference using these cables at peak power makes to sound quality. You want separation and and not that loud quality this would be good for you. This system blew me away.When you look for a system always RMS is the thing you want. The speakers are out of this world but once again the volume.
Yamaha home theater system. You could go Bose and I won't argue that but the price difference and choices in sound goes to Yamaha. you deserve it. Always look at the magnet at the end the bigger the better always. If you can't don't buy it. No powered sub woofer came with this.
( I have a pioneer 300 Rms you don't want to get into that). I love music and movies. 1st I bought the Onkyo dvd home surround sound system that came with a SKW 240 sub woofer. My truth is Yamaha makes the best for the price out there. I bought the Cambridge Sound Works Home theater. 3. This system comes with 100 watts RMS per speaker.
Yamaha speakers are great but you want better, Infinity(make sure of the Rms rating or you will fry them). BUT.You have no choices in hall sound, Roxy theater, sports, entertainment.Etc. For years I have searched for a Home Theater system with everything. I loved this system the sound quality is to die for. Vienna hall, sports, entertainment, pop,rock,jazz, general, multi channel.etc I don't think I have tried them all.
Its handy for me as my old 1080i LCD monitor has only one HDMI input.They thoughtfully provided (3) digital audio inputs (one coax to use PCM for Dolby 5.1) and two Toslink type optical inputs. As another reviewer mentioned, additional cables are pretty cheap. Don't expect the same features as a $1500 Denon. The sub was doing fine - not the tightest, most efficient driver but it does its job well.
That should pretty much take care of any other sources I want to route through this receiver. Default scenarios sounded pretty good and it was easy enough to navigate the receiver after poking around a bit.I say it was $250 well spent for a smaller room. They provided plenty of cable if you know how to route cable efficiently (like under the carpet, inside walls, etc.). If you are on a budget, as I am these days, this is a great setup for a minimal offering. It sounds pretty decent and has more than enough inputs for me to route my HD DVR and a DVD player with HDMI output (later to be replaced with Blu-ray). It arrived today and setting it up was easy.
or if you have a very small space. Its true, the HDMI ports are only pass through but this entire set, at full retail, is under $450 including all speakers and a powered sub. It doesn't come with cables but a digital coax cost me only $9 and a Toslink only cost me about 19$ so no big whoop. I wouldn't take too much stock in the fact that having the provided (2) HDMI inputs are only pass through ports as they provide enough digital audio inputs to cover both HDMI ports. I just bought this for around $249 new (sans tax and shipping). If you want to route cable along the baseboard and around corners and around doorways etc.then you may extra speaker wiring.The receiver + speakers is great for the cost.
The provided speakers sounded decent as we tested them playing "Minority Report".
Even two Amazon technical types were split: one said these cables were not necesary while the other that they were. I was connecting the Direct TV box and a DVD Blu-Ray player to the Yamaha receiver. A few more bucks (these cables are not cheap either) and a lot less hassle. It must be made explicit that this unit will not transmit sound without digital optical or digital coaxial cable connection in addition to the HDMI connections. AND that one of each is necessary since there is just one port for each type on the Yamaha receiver. I finally called Yamaha (not too easy) to get the final word since Amazon people were confusing and then had to take precious time off to go buy these expensive cables.Reading the customer reviews I only NOW see they were needed.Action: Amazon must RECOMMEND these items for customers to purchase along with the recommendation of HDMI cable and, of decidedly secondary importance to the digital cables issue, heavier gauge speaker wire.For this reason, I would recommend a sound system that does NOT need these extra cables and transmits via HDMI alone.
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