Yamaha HTR 6230BL 500 Watt 5 Channel Home Theater Receiver
Yamaha HTR 6230BL 500 Watt 5 Channel Home Theater Receiver
This high-value AV receiver offers 1080p-compatible HDMI (2 in/1 out), iPod and Bluetooth audio compatibility, compressed music enhancer, and Cinema DSP.
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars Great sounding amplifier
I recommend this unit highly. It would get five stars if it was a bit less complicated. But it does so much so perhaps that is inevitable. The remote has fifty-nine buttons! So far I have used about ten. Maybe when I get around to controlling my CD player from this remote I’ll use some of the others, and need one less remote too. Currently I am using it as a stereo receiver with a Yamaha CD player, with two Polk side speakers and a Polk sub-woofer.
I am very pleased with the sound [I do not consider myself an audiophile but I do enjoy my music, classical, opera and rock mostly]. Plenty of volume, more bass available than I need but that part is easy to adjust. The room where I have this unit is 20′ by 25′ with a 12′ celing, and there’s no problem filling it with sound. Rock on!
I am impressed and consider it very good value for money too.
4 Stars Perfect system
This does everything you need. the only fault is that it is a bit bulky.
4 Stars good but not perfect 
Ok, so like the other guy said, it works fine but the HDMI doesn’t carry sound (Which totally sucks because that is the whole point of using HDMI) so you have to use either an extra coaxial or optical cable besides the HDMI. Other than that i really like it, it’s perfect for what it costs and i love the sound.
3 Stars If you are not a geek, beware !
I bought this system, with a new Samsung 1081P TV and Samsung Blueray disk player. Am not usually adverse to technical stuff, but this was a hard one to crack. The manual is definitly not intuitive, nor the setup.
My initial mistake was to think that HDMI cable would reduce the wires behind the setup, so linked them up and : no sound. Going “straight” gave sound to the TV but no sound in the loudspeakers.
After several hrs pondering and trying to understand the manual, I was left with the choice or returning the Yamaha, or keep trying.
After about 5 attempts of 2 hrs, I was still nowhere. The loudspeakers were properly connected, (5 for surround, and 2 large High quality stereo for classical music) as after some fumbling, I got the radio to work on all speakers, but the DVD and HD satelite TV ? nothing.
In desperation I asked a young geek to come, and he sat and pondered for a good hr, and finally worked out that the HDMI did not carry the sound for this Yamaha, more fumbling we connected more cables and 30 min’s later it worked, at last.
But beware this Yamaha is not for the ordinary technical minded person.
It is definitely not intuitive and the manual not straight forward. (I use many microsoft PC programs, and have gone deep into the software features, without ever looking at a manual – just for comparison)
I still haven’t figured out how to work my Ipod (or equivalent) through the front input jack, maybe when I have more courage, I will try again later.
Conclusion: It works, but you sure have to have a lot of “geek” perseverance to get it straight and working.
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