Home Cinema Setup With a Yamaha Rx-V663 Home Cinema Amplifier

Home Theater Receiver

The best value home theater receivers are in the midrange category. They offer classic sound over underpowered entry-level models, consist of the most important features ready on the high-end models, and they still carry on to cost in the middle of 0 and 0. I advise this for your home cinema project.

Home Theater Receiver

The Yamaha Rx-V663 falls right into the midrange class, and if your main concern is sound quality, it's one of the great Av receivers we've heard, outperforming the Sony Str-Dg920 in our head-to-head match up..

The shape of the Rx-V663 is nothing much to look at, just your appropriate run of the mill Av receiver shape. On the top half, there's a centered orange Lcd display, which we found literally readable from about 8 feet back.  The large volume knob on the right hand side is above the front panel inputs

The Rx-V663 has a literally nice remote well laid out and a nice feel from the keys, I don't use it much as I have switched to the harmony remote.

The back panel layout is a bit annoying the make is not as you would expect. For some reason, the audio and video inputs for each device are separate, so, for example, you'd run the yellow composite video cable from your Nintendo Wii to the far right-hand side, while the red and white analog audio cables would go on the far left. It's likely to cause a rat's nest of tangled wires on many home theater systems, as well as forcing you to isolate many cables that bundle video and audio connections together. You might want to reconsider going for a wireless home theater theory if you want to avoid the cable spaghetti

Yamaha's Parametric Room Acoustic Optimizer (Ypao) automatic speaker calibration theory determines speaker sizes and volume levels, measures the distances from the speakers to the listener, confirms that all of the speaker cables are correctly hooked up, and uses equalization to equilibrium the frequency response of all the speakers. This process work very well when I ran it associated to my Accusound Speaker, I only need to run it once and the sound was literally balanced, when I mount the rear speaker onto wall brackets.

Starting the auto setup program is as easy as plugging in the included mic, but note that we got an inaccurate error warning during out tests.

Some nice features that I liked, these don't all the time get a mention. One is that the Rx-V663 includes two switched Ac outlets, for powering other components. The next is the special iPod docking port that lets you connect a iPod dock or the bluetooth adapter, I use the iPod dock works well. The on screen display from the iPod dock is still a bit old fashioned but it work Ok for option music from your iPod.

Home Cinema Setup With a Yamaha Rx-V663 Home Cinema Amplifier
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