Sorry your having problems. As you said, it does not appear to be the Emotiva, but the "right" preout on your receiver. If you power off/on your Yamaha, does the right channel start working again until you crank it up again?

I've never heard of a preout stop functioning, but I'm sure it is possible. You have a very stange problem to resolve...

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