I have always respected Yamaha equipment and do so to this day.
I’m not really familiar with their AVR equipment in surround mode but have read some good reviews and some not so good reviews of their AVR’s, although this can be said of most, if not all equipment that is reviewed by multiple sources.
I do know that the Yamaha’s sound excellent in two channel mode, and they have plenty of balls behind their output stage.
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