Yamaha RX-V665BL 630 Watt 7-Channel Home Theater Receiver (OLD VERSION)

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Price: $499.95   

Product Feature

• 7-channel 630W powerful surround sound (90W x 7)
• HDMI 1.3 with Deep Color, xv Colorspace, 1080p compatible, and support for HD Audio formats.
• Analog video to HDMI up-conversion and also de-interlacing from 480i to 480p
• Independent 2 Zone, 2 Source operation
• Bluetooth music streaming using Yamaha YBA-10 Bluetooth Audio Receiver

Product Description

Yamaha RX-V665BL 630 Watt 7-Channel Home Theater Receiver

Yamaha RX-V665BL 630 Watt 7-Channel Home Theater Receiver (OLD VERSION) Review

I chose the Yamaha V665 after careful comparison with other units, and was very impressed with ease of setup and features. The sound quality is excellent, and while I had initial concerns with power output, at 90 watts it demonstrates more useable power than my previous NAD unit at 100 watts. I particularly like the four "Scene" buttons which allow linked input sources and sound fields and switch the unit on with one action. Contrary to other reviews on Amazon you can easily assign whatever input you wish together with a preferred sound field and assign it to any of these buttons. On the downside, you cannot assign different tone adjustments to these four "Scenes" which means I have to manually attenuate the bass to listen to spoken radio broadcasts which tend to create disturbing bass reverberations at times.

However the one big disappointment, which because of its nature I only discovered too late to return the unit (and I would not have purchased this unit had I known beforehand) is evident when a TV input from some (possibly all?) cable boxes is connected to the unit and passed through using the receiver as a switching unit (one of the key features of any modern receiver after all). In this mode the signal is subject to frequent dropouts of sound and video. Some days these dropouts are hardly evident and only for a fraction of a second, other days they are frequent and last long enough to leave the screen blank for a second or two or to delete entire words on the audio track. This happens with every possible connection I have tried, whether HDMI or component video (I have also tried monster cables to no avail). I have since seen other reviews reporting this same problem on other Yamaha units. My cable box is Time Warner but there are similar reports with Verizon Fios, so the problem seems endemic. Updating the current Yamaha firmware seems to have no effect.

There are always so many variables that it is difficult to track down the source of the problem, and I would hate to criticize Yamaha unfairly, but as the problem apparently occurs throughout the Yamaha product range, it would seem wise to hesitate on purchasing Yamaha until this problem is resolved.

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