Yamaha RXV683 Music Cast 7 Channel AV Receiver - Black

This Yamaha RXV683 is connected upto a Panasonic Oled 55” 952, and a Panasonic Dmp-UB700 4kdvd player, it replaces a Yamaha rxv380. This is worth the money, the quality of the picture and the sound is outstanding, it is very easy to set up and I personally feel this is the best AV amp under £500 on the market . It is a very very powerful amp, and steers the sound around our 5.1 speakers extremely well, the centre channel (speech) is outstanding . This is a 4K uhd straight-thru amp, which means the dvd player is connected to the amp by hdmi.This supplies Picture and Sound, the surround sound dolby digital /dts sound codes are supplied by the dvd player and are decoded by the amp, this means that on blu-ray play back, the amp display shows dolby digital, or dts and the dvd player display shows the type of code; true hd,atmos,Ex and so on. Yamaha have produced a high quality product at at a very reasonable price, that is why in a very competitive market this amp has the amazon rating it has, well worth the cash. This amp has a power rating recorded at 85% peak sound, Denon and Sony have power rating at clipping (which means they are red lining: not true wattage: check out the avforum). What Hi-Fi, won’t tell you this: Yamaha has the best all around connectivity of any av amp around today (yamaha to panasonic, yamaha to Lg, yamaha to samsung etc, and the very very best lip-sync interface around). Enjoy your New av-amp.

Excellent quality in materials and sound. Beautiful aspect. The interface in tv is not the best but count with multiple options. I have some trouble to connect devices by bluetooth or wifi (services such as spotify) but i think the problem is the router.

I needed a new HDMI Amp to replace my old Denon amp. An amp that could support HDMI2, UHD, Airplay, Streaming and Bluetooth. I have always enjoyed the clean sound of a Yamaha Amp. Having not bought any audio hardware for over 7 years, it was quite daunting to wade through the options. Amazon made this a lot easier. The Amp was incredibly easy to setup and I find the on screen menus, setup routines (YPAO) and display easy to use. Setting everything up took a few minutes. The sound is great and easily fills a double volume room. The YPAO setup detects where the speakers are and their frequency range allowing the decoder to create excellent sound even when all speakers are at the front. I currently have 7 speakers connected (all at the front) and although the sound doesn't surround you it really is very good. The app for my phone allows me to switch on the amp and stream music and control some of the amps features without having to find and use the remote which is a real bonus. This amp really ticks all my boxes.

11 months (great support from Amazon, refund me fully). the 1st thing i can say about this receiver is that its powerful - driving any 6-8 ohm speakers with ease. 2nd - very reliable, working every day 4-6 hours, inside a cabinet, without any issue. The sound is great, very YAMAHA sound - detailed but smooth. Unfortunately, a lightning struck our building, and that was the end of it.

Arrived very fast the day before delivery date. This AVR is extremely brilliant. Solid design ,easy front layout. This model has six hdmi ports.One on the front, with usb for mp3 etc.Five on the rear and one to tv. For uhd 2.2 and 2.0 currently,Dolby Vision and Hybrid colour.For high colour and contrast. 7.2 speaker connections front LR Cen,Rear SL RS, DOL enabled and Back rear connections and 2 Subwoofer cons1Active and passive. These being 8ohms but can be changed to 60hms. via the[ Power button held with the Direct button both , front displayshows advanced set up}use direct button press will show 6or 8 then press power off and on completes that. All DSP modes are available Atmos DTX dolby digital dtsmasterhd and all digital surrounds. This model has net and wifi for updates which will need for the setup.The sound is strong and highly enjoyable with great depth I highly recommend this

Great av amp took me some time to realise that only one of my hdmi ports on my tv supports arc but once past that set up is easy ,not tried music cast yet dont want to spend money on wireless speakers their not cheap surround sound is very good but i dont use bass woofer ,Love the phono inputs .... robert nesta marley lives again, i find talking phones and other devices irritating so i'm never going to bother with alexa all in all my new favourite device

Great Device, Great sound

Wonderful sound easy to setup. Works with my Apple AirPods which is an added bonus.