Yamaha RX-V381 5.1-Channel A/V Receiver (Black)

A pleasingly entertaining, albeit scarcely featured, performer

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  Big, enveloping presentation, Fast and articulate sound, Particularly expressive with voices, Dead easy to set up and use

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  Rivals are more fruitfully featured, Lacks a little authority and solidity

I am very pleased with the sound from this. I wanted this for the 4K offering and am not disappointed. I am however not pleased with the speaker hookups, half have the banana clip option the other half do not I don't understand this and had to remove the banana clips from half my surround sound...

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  Great Sound

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  Cannot Get Screen Display, Speaker Hookups, Sub Woofer

My apartment took a direct lightning strike that fried all of my electronic devices. I bought this unit to replace an earlier model of a Yamaha A/V receiver that it central to my home theater system.

Good entry-level av receiver. This unit replaced a 5 year old Onkyo 7.1 channel receiver that had a lot more features. But for movies and tv which is nearly 100% of my usage the extra features were unused.

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  small sizeeasy to navigate interfaceexcellent sound level configuration through the included microphonequick and easy setupHDCP compliant to the latest standards4k pass throughGood HDMI switching even with a home theater PC

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  only 5 channelno wifi or other premium features

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  The sound is good just not the power they claim.

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  The Yamaha unit never worked from the get go. The first problem was that the set-up function to get a balance of sound did not work. The unit claimed the speakers were not hooked up, but of course once you test all the speakers sound does work.