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This is a post I made on Hometheaterspot.com, hope you enjoy!
Ok, I bought my yamaha 992 receiver in 1997 when it first was released. I thought this was the greatest receiver and that I would stick w/ yamaha from then on out.
fast forward to a month ago and I was looking into upgrading. Naturally I was looking into the new yamaha's and I liked the 2300. My cousin told me that he thought Denon was better so I started looking into it. The 3803 was the one that caught my eye. Right after that, news of the Yamaha 2400 hit and I was very confused. Which do I go with. The YPOA (maybe YPAO) looked very attractive to me.
Im a musician first and I understand paper on actual sound. I know that a 100 watt marshall and a 100 watt dual rectifier sound different.
I have had my receiver for a long time, but never new of calibration. I often times was frustrated changing volumes between dialog being too quiet and action scenes too loud. I recently calibrated my 992 and what a difference it made. What an idiot i was. heh.
anyways. I asked rkkwan(sp - not looking it up) his opinion because he seems very helpful and very knowledgeable and he said that when the 2400 hit the streets, that probably would be the choice (due to it being newer and having new features). He didnt bash Denon and basically said it depends on where in the product cycle you are which to go with. He also mentioned Outlaw and Rotel as possiblities.
I had never heard of either of these. I looked at Outlaw first, and 1500 was more than I wanted to spend so I moved to Rotel. I found the RSX1055 and now I must say I hit a new level of confusion! I have b&w speakers and seeing my brand speakers all over their website only wetted my taste buds. and upgradeability. The whole reason I was getting a new receiver. Not for sound, but for features (DDEX, DTS, DTSES, DPLII). I found a dealer who sells rotel and went to talk to them.
Told them I want 7.1, but have no use for it right now due to my small apt (850sq ft).
I left and was still unclear. You can never really tell until you hear it on your equipment. They had a 1066 setup and I watched star wars on the denon 2900. Am I the only one that noticed the glowing outline on people? didnt care for it. also dipole speakers. never heard them before, dont care to again.
One of the strong points about Rotel is their support. They offer software upgrades. that is a very nice feature. So I found another dealer locally who sold rotel. (the first one was too cocky for my tastes - when I asked them to compare denon to yamaha they said yamaha makes motorcycles.)
The second dealer offered me an outstanding price (1099$) so I jumped on it. I wanted silver. Just think it looks cooler. It was supposed to come in yesterday but I found out silver is on backorder until october 9th and he would let me take his floor model home until then.
He hadnt had it long and it was a black one. I was too excited to pass up having a new receiver so I agreed. While there the thought of unhooking and hooking everything back up was just not an enjoyable one so I asked him if he would shave more off if i agreed to keep the floor model. He gave it to me for $967. Sold. It actually wasn't used very much and was the wide bandwidth model ( i made him call to verify. heh).
Got home, setup everything and went into the OSD and realized I should probably update the firmware. Downloaded the PDF and like and idiot I took the cover off looking for the dip switches. They should ad a photo to the PDF so people realize its just on the back. heh. anyways. Almost did the LFE fix while I was in there but decided against it for now. wanted to hear it too much!
I must say microsoft has me spoiled by wizards. In the OSD display there is no quick way to set it up. So I pulled out the manual and started reading. Its fairly easy to get the hang of it so I setup V1 and V2 (only using optical connections, and I put my gamecube in the analog audio for V1 to simplify remote setup).
Finally got it setup to where I can start using it. The next pain in the butt hit me when my MX-500 needed to be reprogrammed. So much work before I can even get this first sound. I was becoming more and more frustrated. The anticipation had been building to a boiling point. It was my first date with my new baby and I had all the excitement to go w/ it. (dont tell my fiance I said that)
I decided to do the remote incrementally, I had to hear my new baby!
I even put off to calibrating it until tonight because I was almost 2 hours into this change-over.
Turned the TV on and... no sound. what did I do wrong? went back into the OSD and realized I setup V1 to coax instead of optical. Was in too much of a hurry so I fixed it and went back to my first listening with my stuff.
Cable came back on (had to switch from composite to component) and selected V1. The anticipation was so great that I was on the edge of my seat. changed it to HBOHD and in came Dolby Digital 5.1. Dumb movie, but I got sound.
the first thing I notice is clearity. A clearity I didn't realize I was missing.
So immediately I combed my DVD's and pulled out blade 2. Ive never heard DTS, so I chose DTSES as my first preview. I fumbled through my remotes to get the dvd player working and started the movie.
WOW! I felt like I hit the jackpot on christmas morning. W/o being calibrated, the sound was awesome! depth. color. the dtses track used my rears like I always dreamed of. I was in the movie. People talk about not being able to tell about the sound coming from the speaker. I reached it. home theater surround sound nirvannah.
I highly recommend this receiver to anyone and everyone in the 1000$ range! It is highly expandable and upgradeable even (sorry, my snaggletooth impression doesnt have the same effect on msg board). In looking at both the 1055 and 1066, I dont really understand why one would go w/ the 1066 because you pay more and you still need an external amp. They use the same processor. I would probably recommend the 1055 and an external amp over the 1066 and use the extra money on cabling, but thats me.
Hope I didnt bore you and lose your attention by this point.
Ok, I bought my yamaha 992 receiver in 1997 when it first was released. I thought this was the greatest receiver and that I would stick w/ yamaha from then on out.
fast forward to a month ago and I was looking into upgrading. Naturally I was looking into the new yamaha's and I liked the 2300. My cousin told me that he thought Denon was better so I started looking into it. The 3803 was the one that caught my eye. Right after that, news of the Yamaha 2400 hit and I was very confused. Which do I go with. The YPOA (maybe YPAO) looked very attractive to me.
Im a musician first and I understand paper on actual sound. I know that a 100 watt marshall and a 100 watt dual rectifier sound different.
I have had my receiver for a long time, but never new of calibration. I often times was frustrated changing volumes between dialog being too quiet and action scenes too loud. I recently calibrated my 992 and what a difference it made. What an idiot i was. heh.
anyways. I asked rkkwan(sp - not looking it up) his opinion because he seems very helpful and very knowledgeable and he said that when the 2400 hit the streets, that probably would be the choice (due to it being newer and having new features). He didnt bash Denon and basically said it depends on where in the product cycle you are which to go with. He also mentioned Outlaw and Rotel as possiblities.
I had never heard of either of these. I looked at Outlaw first, and 1500 was more than I wanted to spend so I moved to Rotel. I found the RSX1055 and now I must say I hit a new level of confusion! I have b&w speakers and seeing my brand speakers all over their website only wetted my taste buds. and upgradeability. The whole reason I was getting a new receiver. Not for sound, but for features (DDEX, DTS, DTSES, DPLII). I found a dealer who sells rotel and went to talk to them.
Told them I want 7.1, but have no use for it right now due to my small apt (850sq ft).
I left and was still unclear. You can never really tell until you hear it on your equipment. They had a 1066 setup and I watched star wars on the denon 2900. Am I the only one that noticed the glowing outline on people? didnt care for it. also dipole speakers. never heard them before, dont care to again.
One of the strong points about Rotel is their support. They offer software upgrades. that is a very nice feature. So I found another dealer locally who sold rotel. (the first one was too cocky for my tastes - when I asked them to compare denon to yamaha they said yamaha makes motorcycles.)
The second dealer offered me an outstanding price (1099$) so I jumped on it. I wanted silver. Just think it looks cooler. It was supposed to come in yesterday but I found out silver is on backorder until october 9th and he would let me take his floor model home until then.
He hadnt had it long and it was a black one. I was too excited to pass up having a new receiver so I agreed. While there the thought of unhooking and hooking everything back up was just not an enjoyable one so I asked him if he would shave more off if i agreed to keep the floor model. He gave it to me for $967. Sold. It actually wasn't used very much and was the wide bandwidth model ( i made him call to verify. heh).
Got home, setup everything and went into the OSD and realized I should probably update the firmware. Downloaded the PDF and like and idiot I took the cover off looking for the dip switches. They should ad a photo to the PDF so people realize its just on the back. heh. anyways. Almost did the LFE fix while I was in there but decided against it for now. wanted to hear it too much!
I must say microsoft has me spoiled by wizards. In the OSD display there is no quick way to set it up. So I pulled out the manual and started reading. Its fairly easy to get the hang of it so I setup V1 and V2 (only using optical connections, and I put my gamecube in the analog audio for V1 to simplify remote setup).
Finally got it setup to where I can start using it. The next pain in the butt hit me when my MX-500 needed to be reprogrammed. So much work before I can even get this first sound. I was becoming more and more frustrated. The anticipation had been building to a boiling point. It was my first date with my new baby and I had all the excitement to go w/ it. (dont tell my fiance I said that)
I decided to do the remote incrementally, I had to hear my new baby!
I even put off to calibrating it until tonight because I was almost 2 hours into this change-over.
Turned the TV on and... no sound. what did I do wrong? went back into the OSD and realized I setup V1 to coax instead of optical. Was in too much of a hurry so I fixed it and went back to my first listening with my stuff.
Cable came back on (had to switch from composite to component) and selected V1. The anticipation was so great that I was on the edge of my seat. changed it to HBOHD and in came Dolby Digital 5.1. Dumb movie, but I got sound.
the first thing I notice is clearity. A clearity I didn't realize I was missing.
So immediately I combed my DVD's and pulled out blade 2. Ive never heard DTS, so I chose DTSES as my first preview. I fumbled through my remotes to get the dvd player working and started the movie.
WOW! I felt like I hit the jackpot on christmas morning. W/o being calibrated, the sound was awesome! depth. color. the dtses track used my rears like I always dreamed of. I was in the movie. People talk about not being able to tell about the sound coming from the speaker. I reached it. home theater surround sound nirvannah.
I highly recommend this receiver to anyone and everyone in the 1000$ range! It is highly expandable and upgradeable even (sorry, my snaggletooth impression doesnt have the same effect on msg board). In looking at both the 1055 and 1066, I dont really understand why one would go w/ the 1066 because you pay more and you still need an external amp. They use the same processor. I would probably recommend the 1055 and an external amp over the 1066 and use the extra money on cabling, but thats me.
Hope I didnt bore you and lose your attention by this point.
Next time though maybe leave out the HomeTheaterSpot reference 
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