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4.5 stars
"Top Notch!"
Pros: Connectivity Options, Easy Audio Setup, HDMI switching, Sound Quality, Features, HD Radio
Cons: None worthy of mention.
Summary: This is a quality receiver and one of the finest pieces of audio equipment I have ever owned. I have owned many receivers throughout my many years of audio appreciation (Beginning with the old quad days. Do you remember those days?) The reproduction of Select 2 material and SACD is awesome. In regard to the lack of upconverting I do not think it should be the job of the receiver to upconvert. One should rest that responsibility on buying other quality components, like DVD players, etc. that do the upconverting themselves. Quality components should be the only things connected to a receiver of this quality. I also thought the audio setup was extemely easy with the microphone YPAO and produced very accurate results, except for defining two of my four rear surrounds as large. However, this was easy to override. They are Polk Audio speakers and the receiver probably thought they had sounded so good it had mistaken them for large.
I read the review about Yamaha having an "F" rating by the BBB and decided to check the actual "complaints" in detail. The complaints include people complaining about not receiving items they purchased from people selling items on ebay, retailers not honoring "extended" warranties they had purchased from retailers etc. Anyone claiming that Yamaha is somehow responsible for the actions of people selling items on ebay or insuring extra warranties beyond Yamaha's own warranty has to be missing a few screws. After viewing, in detail, the actual complaints I have now lost respect for the ratings of the BBB. After owning this receiver I have nothing but respect for Yamaha Audio Equipment. I will be buying more Yamaha components in the future.
