Yamaha RX V861BL 7 1 Channel XM Ready Home Theater Receiver
Yamaha RX V861BL 7 1 Channel XM Ready Home Theater Receiver
The RX-V861 is a Home Theater Receiver that expands your entertainment horizons with a wide choice of sources and also has great features like high-definition video upscaling and deinterlacing, 1080p-compatible HDMI, Yamaha’s new SCENE, XM ready with XM HD Surround, and iPod compatibility.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Investment for next decade +
After reading reviews from many sites and reviewing various features I finally purchased this to replace my Pioneer VSX-9500S. The quality and performance of this is outstanding and noticeably superior to my old top of the line receiver. With next year models released with few benefits over this, the performance, features and current pricing can’t be had unless you want to spend twice as much. No wonder every site rates this the best! Sound seperation and clarity is the best I have heard driven through my Klipsch speakers. I expect I will be happy with this for at least the next 10 years.
5 Stars High end quality at a low price!
I purchased this unit back in July and have had nothing but great quality sound coming out of this receiver. I used to have a Harmon Kardon receiver and this Yamaha receiver blows it away. I immediately noticed louder and clearer sound quality. The only negative was the instructions for hooking this unit up. It took a good 2-3 hours to get everything working. Instruction manual poorly written like most are. I recently hooked up my satellite receiver using HDMI cables which works great. I also hooked my ipod up using a purchased adapter which also work great. I highly recommend this receiver to anyone looking for a high quality receiver at a low price.
5 Stars So far so good
Bought this receiver a couple of weeks ago online for $399(WMart) to upgrade from a Yamaha RX-V1200 for HDMI support with a PS3. As other reviewers have stated, easy set up with auto speaker settings and it sounds great. Only area of surprise is the need to crank up the volume settings higher than expected when playing Blu=Ray movies. It works well with the PS3, Comcast HD-DVR and DVD-Audio via a Panasonic DVD-F87 5 disc changer(5.1 analog inputs).
4 Stars incredible sound
This reciever has lived up to everything I expected, ease of connections and sound quality is fantastic. The only draw back I have found is when I do an auto setup the Sub Woofer Does not kick in with the Music channels. I had to manualy go into the program and change several settings. Other than that POW! sounds great and works well with my system.
1 Star Worked fine for 10 months, then quit
This receiver has been great, have it hooked up to blu-ray, HD television, dish,all great, then tonight, in the middle of a movie, it quit with a big spark and burning smell, and then of course won’t work. Now what! Would love to hear any ideas on what to do now. Unplugged everything from it and from the Monster surge protector. Only the Yamaha receiver had a problem. Everything else was still going – tv, blu-ray. I’m so mad!
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