Yamaha RX-V1500 7.1 Channels Receiver
- Surround Sound: Dolby Digital® DTS® DTS ES® THX EX® Dolby Pro Logic II
- THX Certification: Select
- Number of Channels: 7.1 Channels
- Type: Receiver
- Surround Mode Power: 120 Watt @ 8 ohm, 20 Hz - 20 kHz, THD: 0.04%
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Looks great. Works great. Get one!
Pros
Easy automated setup, countless features and adjustments, huge power, great sound.
Cons
Limited tone equalization facilities, remote is strictly line of sight.
Recommended it?
Yes
The Bottom Line:
For an average to large sized listening area (our's is about 700 sq feet) the V1500 is highly recommended. It turns our house into a theatre.
After a bad experience with a refurbed A/V receiver from an East coast supplier (different brand) i bought the Yammie V1500 from the local Good Guys (Tukwila WA). With purchases like this I am prepared to pay extra and buy up close and personal, so I have a lapel I can grab in case of trouble. This is my first experience with a modern A/V receiver, so i am still learning - pardon me if I overlook something you care about.
I decided on a 7.0 speaker setup, all Cerwin Vega - you can program the V1500 to pipe all the bass through the front mains, and avoid having a bulky sub-woofer. Setting up all the coax, optical and speaker connections was straightforward, if a little awkward, due to the confined space behind our stereo cabinet. I am driving the receiver with a Sony NS755 DVD player, Sony NC685 DVD changer (same remote as the NS755, DANG!!), and a standard Comcast set-top HDTV box, so there are cables a-plenty. In addition to the 7-speaker outlets there are two "presence speaker" outlets, plus two speaker outlets for another room (Zone 2) - I'm not using the presence or zone 2 outlets.
The YPAO automated setup is a riot (the weird splatting sounds puzzled the heck out of the wife's pet cockatiel). Anyway, the process works like magic, and gets the speaker distances very close, provided they are line-of-sight from the YPAO microphone. The V1500 has many surround modes, plus two "straight-through-with-no-digital-nonsense" modes, one of which allows for switching video through to the TV, the other with no video (and no front panel lighting). Personally, I set the stereo mode to 7-channel for most material, and let the Yamaha software do what it's paid to do, in deciding what sounds to put where. Like most such receivers this unit also has separate 5.1 input, for DVD players and cable boxes that can supply that.
So far the sound is great - Beethoven's 6th (from an SACD), turns the house into a theater and drives the wife nuts. While watching the latest Tolkien movie (Netflix DVD) i got up to answer a knock at the back door, only to realize it was Bilbo Baggins' back door :-O
Apart from the pleasing performance, a couple of pleasant surprises...
1 - the remote does a good job controlling the DVD player and VCR, so I put their individual remotes in the cupboard, where they will stay. We are now down to 3 remotes (TV, Comcast box, V1500)
2 - The AM receiver section actually works very well. The audio is clean, quiet, and distortion-free, unlike many receivers of this sort, which treat AM radio as an after-thought.
If i have a complaint, it is that once you do the automated setup, your options for tone equalization are limited - I could be wrong here, but thus far the only simply manual override i know of is a basic bass and treble control knob on the front panel, giving plus and minus 6 db. Also, there is no "loudness" button. To do any more serious adjustment of sound profile, you have to go into the Sound Menu and adjust equalization for each speaker - thanks but no thanks. So... if you're into brain-numbing bass, get a powered sub-woofer.
Also, in spite of the fact that the unit supports multi-room output, the remote is strictly line-of-sight. ie you can't use it from another room, as you can with some A/V receivers.
All in all i love the V1500, and it will probably live longer in this house than i will.
Bob Bennett, Maple Vly, WA
I decided on a 7.0 speaker setup, all Cerwin Vega - you can program the V1500 to pipe all the bass through the front mains, and avoid having a bulky sub-woofer. Setting up all the coax, optical and speaker connections was straightforward, if a little awkward, due to the confined space behind our stereo cabinet. I am driving the receiver with a Sony NS755 DVD player, Sony NC685 DVD changer (same remote as the NS755, DANG!!), and a standard Comcast set-top HDTV box, so there are cables a-plenty. In addition to the 7-speaker outlets there are two "presence speaker" outlets, plus two speaker outlets for another room (Zone 2) - I'm not using the presence or zone 2 outlets.
The YPAO automated setup is a riot (the weird splatting sounds puzzled the heck out of the wife's pet cockatiel). Anyway, the process works like magic, and gets the speaker distances very close, provided they are line-of-sight from the YPAO microphone. The V1500 has many surround modes, plus two "straight-through-with-no-digital-nonsense" modes, one of which allows for switching video through to the TV, the other with no video (and no front panel lighting). Personally, I set the stereo mode to 7-channel for most material, and let the Yamaha software do what it's paid to do, in deciding what sounds to put where. Like most such receivers this unit also has separate 5.1 input, for DVD players and cable boxes that can supply that.
So far the sound is great - Beethoven's 6th (from an SACD), turns the house into a theater and drives the wife nuts. While watching the latest Tolkien movie (Netflix DVD) i got up to answer a knock at the back door, only to realize it was Bilbo Baggins' back door :-O
Apart from the pleasing performance, a couple of pleasant surprises...
1 - the remote does a good job controlling the DVD player and VCR, so I put their individual remotes in the cupboard, where they will stay. We are now down to 3 remotes (TV, Comcast box, V1500)
2 - The AM receiver section actually works very well. The audio is clean, quiet, and distortion-free, unlike many receivers of this sort, which treat AM radio as an after-thought.
If i have a complaint, it is that once you do the automated setup, your options for tone equalization are limited - I could be wrong here, but thus far the only simply manual override i know of is a basic bass and treble control knob on the front panel, giving plus and minus 6 db. Also, there is no "loudness" button. To do any more serious adjustment of sound profile, you have to go into the Sound Menu and adjust equalization for each speaker - thanks but no thanks. So... if you're into brain-numbing bass, get a powered sub-woofer.
Also, in spite of the fact that the unit supports multi-room output, the remote is strictly line-of-sight. ie you can't use it from another room, as you can with some A/V receivers.
All in all i love the V1500, and it will probably live longer in this house than i will.
Bob Bennett, Maple Vly, WA
