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Re: Yamaha RX-V 4600
#109045 09/05/05 06:15 PM
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I agree with you on that one! lol

Re: Yamaha RX-V 4600
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it's here!

Too bad I got to work 12 hrs straight today

That really sucks.

It looks pretty. Although, besides it being a much nicer black, the Nad has a nicer look to it imho. It's also much smaller then the nad, and the box is WAY smaller as the box for the nad is much larger then the nad itself.


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Re: Yamaha RX-V 4600
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it's here!

Too bad I got to work 12 hrs straight today

That really sucks.

It looks pretty. Although, besides it being a much nicer black, the Nad has a nicer look to it imho. It's also much smaller then the nad, and the box is WAY smaller as the box for the nad is much larger then the nad itself.


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Re: Yamaha RX-V 4600
#109048 09/06/05 06:29 PM
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You are so happy you had to tell us twice!

Re: Yamaha RX-V 4600
#109049 09/06/05 10:07 PM
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oh sarcastic one. 1st time it was on the island, 2nd time it was in my house

I'm STILL at work. I went home for supper and quickly hooked it up. Spent some time playing with the EQ. That's going to take a while to get setup. I get the fronts set to where I basically want them to be, sounding fantastic. But I can't find the sweet spot for the sub yet. Going home in an hour or so, and I'll try the rest of the speakers.


the menu is nice, but I am going to miss how easy it is to trim the sub/center/surround via the remote on the NAD.


Can't say much more then that yet, literally only had an hour to try it so far.



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Re: Yamaha RX-V 4600
#109050 09/07/05 03:05 AM
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well, after a mere 2-3 hours with this amp. It looks like the NAD is going bye bye.

Never had much time to play with it today, and that pisses me off. Busiest time of the year for me at work. Tommorow will be busy as well. But even with the limited time I was able to get a very good sound out of the 4600 with some minor tweaking of the built in eq. I'm still not settled on where my sub is dialed in, but it's close. I just need more time to get it tweaked

Very Very nice receiver. It handles the Axiom's quite well with loads of reserve. The GUI menu is nice, albiet a little cumbersome to set little things which leads me to my biggest complaint

Yamaha Desperately needs to fire the guys that design their remotes. It's just a mess of cheap buttons, has no ability to trim channel levels. Your forced to go through the menu to trim levels. I also wish you could turn off the darn remote light. That's gotta be sucking up the batteries quickly. Something the Nad allowed you to do. Heck the NAD allows you to adjust the delay time on the light.

I'm surprised there is no overlay that shows your master volume as you turn it up/dwn, or what sound mode you are in. That is something the NAD did, well, at least over svideo/rca. Am I missing something I wonder? NO time to read manual yet. It seems outside of pulling up the entire GUI menu, there is no quick means of checking volume. I was hoping for this because of the woman.

It does get a little warmer then the NAD just over the transformer. But the rest of the amp is cool. I never had the fan on tonight, but will see tomorrow what differnce it makes.

I don't see any reason to keep the NAd over this so far. THe NAd might, and I say MIGHT be a little more dynamic, meaning seperation effects are a little more pronounced, but I may have screwed with the eq too much. The EQ is not user friendly at all but quite useful indeed.

I never even bothered with YPAO or whatever it's called. I really HATE automatic anything. Besides, how hard is it really to stick in distances? As for the EQ, that takes a little more work. Gone are the days of easy graphic eq's

Anyways, 14 hr work day....very tired....going to bed... Will hopefully play more tomorrow. Bottom line, great receiver. CAn't believe I am buying a Yamaha.






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Re: Yamaha RX-V 4600
#109051 09/07/05 05:35 AM
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Yamaha Desperately needs to fire the guys that design their remotes. It's just a mess of cheap buttons




I agree with you on this one! I can't stand the remote!

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I'm surprised there is no overlay that shows your master volume as you turn it up/dwn, or what sound mode you are in.




It does but on Svideo only. It won't display anything on component.

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CAn't believe I am buying a Yamaha.




lol I said the same thing.............but it continues to amaze me none the less!




Re: Yamaha RX-V 4600
#109052 09/07/05 06:01 AM
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Is there some technical reason on screen displays from receivers/processors don't work with anything but S-video? What gives? I think I'm the only person on Earth still using S-vid for everything. And with a single input TV...


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Re: Yamaha RX-V 4600
#109053 09/07/05 07:36 AM
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Is there some technical reason on screen displays from receivers/processors don't work with anything but S-video?


I get the feeling that manufacturers don't want to "sully" the component outs with such ugly things as OSD menus, and composite, well... would be icky.

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Re: Yamaha RX-V 4600
#109054 09/07/05 01:32 PM
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True enough. Funny thing though is that with the Yamaha I can access the on-screen menu at anytime regardless of input. If I'm watching a DVD for example and using the component connection, I can get the menu to come up but it won't show me volume.


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