Yamaha HTR-6240BL 525-Watt 5-Channel Home Theater Receiver

Friday, June 18, 2010

Yamaha HTR-6240BL 525-Watt 5-Channel Home Theater Receiver

±1±: Now is the time Yamaha HTR-6240BL 525-Watt 5-Channel Home Theater Receiver Order Today!

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Jun 18, 2010 13:39:22

Yamaha HTR-6240BL 525 Watt 5-Channel Home Theater Receiver

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±1±: Best Buy Overall, I'm very pleased with the receiver ... it's got a lot of nice features (which others have described nicely so I will not repeat), and if you've ever set up any other HT receiver you will not have any troubles with this one. I bought it to replace a sound bar that just didn't do a good enough job of separating dialog from background music and sounds, and I'm running 5.1 in a 14x19 bedroom. I can now clearly hear the dialog, and having real surround sound is great.

However, I dinged it one star for what I would consider misleading specifications. Perhaps for those who are experts at HT this wouldn't be a problem, but when I read about all of the different inputs and outputs I assumed that I could mix and match ... for example, I wanted to up my old 5-disc DVD player via component and send the video to my TV via HDMI ... but no such luck with this model. IMHO, if, as seems to be the case, I must send component inputs to my TV via a component output, HDMI inputs vis HDMI, etc., then I would expect the specs to reflect that be stating as much, or at least indicate it by grouping them together. The last receiver I bought (an Onkyo, for the living room) a couple years ago has no such limitations, so it never occurred to me that this would be an issue.

But, to be fair, even if I had known the difference I doubt that I would have paid the premium to step up to the model with that capability, but at least I would have been prepared with the correct cables and expectations (I spent a couple of days "troubleshooting" the receiver before I realized that it couldn't do what I wanted because the instructions and even the online help was not clear on the topic). on Sale!