Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners Yamaha RX-V 4600

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http://forums.audioholics.com/forums/showthread.php?p=95955#post95955

woo hoo! My 4600 is here....well, almost. it's about an 8 hour drive away. It'll ship tomorrow to me, and then may monday I'll have it. Or my luck, tuesday. Oh wait, Monday is a holiday......darn, so tuesday it is.

100 dB is too loud for me! LOL!!!!

Did you get a chance to play around with the HDMI inputs/ output?

Not yet.....but I will get there!

Really interested to know what kind of temp readings you got after setting the fan to "always on".

Let us know if you get a chance to measure it.

Where are you guys buying these receivers from? Seems like online but is there a site that is offering a great deal on them . ..

Thanks

I'm in Canada, and dealing with an Awesome store that's about 8 hours from me. they are impressing me quite a bit with helping me find the right receiver for me.

So, unless you are in canada.....which I am guessing you are not

West End electronics in St. Johns NFLD

Sell Rotel, NAD, Yamaha, Marantz ( think marantz ) and a bunch more. Very prompt service, very friendly. I'm dealing strickly through email and I have no complaints.

http://www.westendelectronics.com/

Hope I'm not breaking forum rules here.....if so edit it out.

Tell em Steve from Corner brook sent ya!

Temp doesn't even go over 100 now with the fan on.

As for where I get them from, right from Yamaha. A buddy of a buddy. I'm lucky enough to know employees from Sony, Pioneer, Yamaha and Rotel. I did ask my contact from Yamaha about the new RX-V2600 and is it worth it to have the RX-V4600? The response I got was that when it comes to the quality of power and a few other features, the RX-V4600 is ahead of the RX-V2600.

..................with all the stuff I have gone through, I should be on every major manufactures Christmas card list!

Well anybody who knows me knew this was coming. My first gripe on the RX-V4600. The auto eq and auto set-up. It comes close but to be brutally honest, does more harm then good! With a SPL I'm basically running all three front channels flat............huge bonus. Anyway, after the Yamaha was done with it's auto set-up the front left was at +2, Center at +6 and front right was at +1. I won't even go in to how it tried to eq the speakers. The short version is this, it basically took a pair of decent floor standers and a center that can produce thunderous bass and turned them into bookshelves!

I feel bad for anybody new to this hobby who relies on auto set-up to get it done..............I have yet to see one get it right. I tried the Yamaha in two different rooms and it didn't come close to the SPL in either of them. I then went and had a beer at my buddy's who also has this receiver and his was close but still off and it negatively impacted the sound quality.

Still a great receiver though and it's still impressing me. I really need a HK 7300 to A/B against. Anybody want to loan me one? I swear I will give it back........eventually.

I hate auto anything.

to many things can go wrong, and those little mic's that come with these units are well...umm.....probaby crap.

Factor in any noise around while you run it. dog barking, ac running, children doing anything, traffic outside, phone ringing even wind blowing and anything can throw them off.

I never could understand why people need a gadget just so they don't need to put the speaker distances in themselves....cause it's sooo hard right?

The eq thing to me is a total preference thing and no auto setup is going to adjust it to my room/ear the way I want it.

bottom line, this ain't no big deal to me. But I can see your point about the not so audio savy kind using these auto features.

I am convinced time slows down once you are waiting for new toys to arrive

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