I own this, it's truly excellent. I'm a sound engineer and found this collection of quality components to FAR surpass that offered by competitors.
To make a few comments about a previous reviewer here... Yamaha makes the best high performance recording studio compact passive monitor speakers in the world, the NS-10. They have the same appearing white paper cone woofers as the speakers in this system. Paper cone speakers are used in some of the best high end audiophile loudspeakers in the world - do some real scientific research (learning from true authorities on the subject) before you assume that anything other than a plastic woofer is junk. The main reason speakers these days are made from plastic is that it's cheaper to make a decent cone from polypropylene than from paper.
The receiver in this unit is absolutely incredible - check out it's specs. Yamaha amplifiers and preamps in their home audio receivers have had higher performance than the competition for at least 15 years now - higher headroom in the power amplifiers, lower intermodulation distortion, and lower noise floor. This is one fantastic unit for the price - Yamaha is undoubtebly losing money on this package with every sale.
The dvd player obviously does slow scan etc, the other reviewer is wrong. Use the correct remote, read the manual, and ask someone. Try pressing and holding the fast-forward button... not this one >>| but the one that looks like >>
The speakers are very good - much better than the competition in the price range... how do I know? we're using a typical high performance audio receiver to power them, not a custom unit. Many custom units (from cheap companies like koss, kenwood, panasonic) try to make up for the poor performance of their speakers with eqing in the preamp to increase bass, treble, etc. Generally it results in very uneven frequency response at your ears. These speakers sound REALLY REALLY GOOD with a general purpose high performance surround receiver! Try putting some little toy Koss speakers on a good receiver and you'll be sadly disappointed.
Why does everyone think that active subwoofers are better than passive in the sub-$400 price range (for subwoofer alone I mean)? active means the subwoofer amp is in the subwoofer. passive means it's in the receiver. If a subwoofer is connected, designed and setup properly then it will replace the sound from the satelite (ie, remaining) speakers in it's frequency range, so the lows from the other speakers will be cutoff since it's handled much better by the subwoofer. It makes NO DIFFERENCE if it's passive or active, there's a ton of power to drive it from the receiver here. If you have a $500 dedicated velodyne subwoofer then it will make a small difference if it's active, because it uses something very different called active servo technology which requires the woofer and it's amp to work together to reduce distortion through a reverse feedback loop. However in this price range it actually is a waste of money to put an extra amp into the subwoofer, you're paying for an amp that you don't need since it's covered by the receiver (and the receiver has a much higher quality amp than a cheap active sub will have too).
You can't do better than this group of components - it's worth twice as much if sold separately, and it's excellent for music as well (just turn off the surround speakers first since most recording artists don't use surround speakers during their recordings and it will just add extra reverb junk to your sound).
To make a few comments about a previous reviewer here... Yamaha makes the best high performance recording studio compact passive monitor speakers in the world, the NS-10. They have the same appearing white paper cone woofers as the speakers in this system. Paper cone speakers are used in some of the best high end audiophile loudspeakers in the world - do some real scientific research (learning from true authorities on the subject) before you assume that anything other than a plastic woofer is junk. The main reason speakers these days are made from plastic is that it's cheaper to make a decent cone from polypropylene than from paper.
The receiver in this unit is absolutely incredible - check out it's specs. Yamaha amplifiers and preamps in their home audio receivers have had higher performance than the competition for at least 15 years now - higher headroom in the power amplifiers, lower intermodulation distortion, and lower noise floor. This is one fantastic unit for the price - Yamaha is undoubtebly losing money on this package with every sale.
The dvd player obviously does slow scan etc, the other reviewer is wrong. Use the correct remote, read the manual, and ask someone. Try pressing and holding the fast-forward button... not this one >>| but the one that looks like >>
The speakers are very good - much better than the competition in the price range... how do I know? we're using a typical high performance audio receiver to power them, not a custom unit. Many custom units (from cheap companies like koss, kenwood, panasonic) try to make up for the poor performance of their speakers with eqing in the preamp to increase bass, treble, etc. Generally it results in very uneven frequency response at your ears. These speakers sound REALLY REALLY GOOD with a general purpose high performance surround receiver! Try putting some little toy Koss speakers on a good receiver and you'll be sadly disappointed.
Why does everyone think that active subwoofers are better than passive in the sub-$400 price range (for subwoofer alone I mean)? active means the subwoofer amp is in the subwoofer. passive means it's in the receiver. If a subwoofer is connected, designed and setup properly then it will replace the sound from the satelite (ie, remaining) speakers in it's frequency range, so the lows from the other speakers will be cutoff since it's handled much better by the subwoofer. It makes NO DIFFERENCE if it's passive or active, there's a ton of power to drive it from the receiver here. If you have a $500 dedicated velodyne subwoofer then it will make a small difference if it's active, because it uses something very different called active servo technology which requires the woofer and it's amp to work together to reduce distortion through a reverse feedback loop. However in this price range it actually is a waste of money to put an extra amp into the subwoofer, you're paying for an amp that you don't need since it's covered by the receiver (and the receiver has a much higher quality amp than a cheap active sub will have too).
You can't do better than this group of components - it's worth twice as much if sold separately, and it's excellent for music as well (just turn off the surround speakers first since most recording artists don't use surround speakers during their recordings and it will just add extra reverb junk to your sound).
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