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No, I never did have it repaired. If you find out how to reset the receiver, let me know I'd love to try that.

Just curious,
did you guys buy your yamaha from an authorized dealer, or did you go the low budget route, without warranty ? I am considering this issue myself.

thanks

Randy

Hey, great! That's excellent that you've solved the problem. It's also kind of bizarre that the Yamaha has some kind of inherent design fault. I've never been a huge fan of Yamaha receivers, but I would still expect competent design in term of the basic electronics--the preamp and amp section.

Regards,

My rxv3000 was from a non-authorized dealer, Etronics. I don't think I will go that route again. Saving a few bucks is not worth losing peace of mind.

Nick, don't worry. The newer Yammy's are very good quality in my opinion.

Yeah, I probably should have ended my post with a

I've read enough about the yamaha's here and AVS to have faith that I'll be happy for a while to come. To be honest, I feel I can already hear a difference using my HTIB speakers. I attribute that to using the Yamaha's DAC over the DAC on my Revolution 5.1 sound card that I was using before.

And yes, I'm using a lossless format

Nick,

Don't fret. I've owned lots of Yamaha electronics over the years, which were generally excellent, including some of the very early "Digital Soundfield Processors". Plus Yamaha seems to have first-rate quality control. I've never had a test unit or any of the Yamaha gear I own ever fail, not once in 25 years.

I got annoyed with Yamaha AV units some years ago because they misbehaved with lower-impedance loads like the 4-ohm M80s. Apparently that's not true of recent Yamaha units.

I also had a usability bias because Yamaha used to hide secondary controls behind a flip-down panel on their up-market AV receivers. To access those controls was really annoying: they were tiny, hard to see, let alone read the labels. Now of course most of us use a remote control much of the time, but I sometimes like to operate stuff from the front panel. . .blah, blah, and so on. . .

Regards,