DSP modes, 6db bass boost, good looks, number of inputs.

remote (but who cares?!)

Don't worry about the price i mentioned. I live in Pakistan so these things cost a lot more here than they do abroad (because of the import duities). I was very impressed with the multitude of features that this reciever carries. The other two yamaha reievers i used were a little quiet where bass was concerned, but this one has a bass boost button which works extremely well raising the bass by atleast 6db. But then again, you probably don't want to give your speakers so much bass if you have a powered sub, that's the sub's job. I have the goldish color finish and it makes the reciever look gorgeous, believe me, if you want this reciever then you want this finish, it looks fairly ordinary in the black finish. It has an extreme number of usable and assingnable inputs, you can never hook up this much stuff, atleast not at this level. Unlike all the other reviews that yamaha recievers have got about not being good musical recievers, i'd have to differ on this reciever's musical abilities, i think it plays music extremely well, if you want better music performance, then go for seperates. Perhaps the best things about this reciever is what it does to movie sound, you'll have to sit there and hear it for yourself to believe it, it has perhaps the best effect seperation that i have heard at this price and it really makes you happy watching any movie, be it DD or DTS. The DTS capability is fantastic, truly rocks! I love the Rock DSP mode, tons of bass, good vocals. I do have a problem i have faced with Yamaha recievers in general, they have extremely sensitive power protection systems, which means that yamaha doesn't really want to fry your speakers, so when the reciever senses that it is going to provide a signal which is too powerful for the crossover of your speakers, it turns off. It does get annoying, but i am told that if i use a servo stabilizer the problem will be sorted and there will also be no noise coming in from the mains to the speakers. Another thing is that the volume control raises the volume extremely smoothly, it might be annoying to you the first couple of times around, but you'll quickly notice that the increase in power is enormous when you reach the -25db range and go up, meaning that the major power increase occurs after the -25 db range. By all means, buy this baby, its a sound investment.

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I just read from a finnish magazine, that at
5.1 this 620-model only offers 5 x 29 W continuos power.
Is that a problem?

I'm going to buy this beautie tomorrow ... perhaps.

I was offered a little bit damaged version (just bump on other side) for 430 €.


THE RATING IS A WILD QUESS.

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Sorry guys, my mistake. Upon taking a closer look at the HTR model I think it is the same exact product. Both have 5.1 and Digital TopArt. The ratings and the guy at Bestbuy threw me off. The HTR is rated 110wpc but the RXV is rated 100wpc at 8 ohms but at 8 ohms and 1Khz the rxv rates 110wpc so I think that bestbuy just wrote this number down instead of the 100wpc at 8 ohms. God I hate best buy. Anyways again, my mistake...sorry.

Amazing clarity, very crisp - clean sound

initially the remote seemed cumbersome, but after time it became easy to use

I spent months deciding on a reciever. I spent many hours reading reviews, talking to owners of different brands, and decided on the sony 333es. Then Yamaha came out with their new line. I was able to listen to the Yammie side by side against the Sony,as well as models from Onkyo, and Denon. The Yamaha won (if only by a small margin)- against much more expensive recievers!! The music playback is amazingly crisp and clear, the DD, DTS playback is flawless. ( I actually ran across a HTR5460 at Best Buy that had been mistakenly marked down to $129!!!!- so with that find, my reciever search ended!!!)
As listed by other reviewers, it has component video switching, assignable optical inputs, 5 channel stereo ,
more DSPs than you could possibly use (and in all honesty i actually only use 1 maybe 2 of the DSPs).
If you are looking for a great budget reciever, this Yamaha is a great buy. Remember that the Rxv620 and the HTR5460 are identical recievers (one is intended for online sales and large stores like Best Buy/sears--Htr5460, and the other line... the RXV620 is for Audio specialty stores

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sound, power price

none

i went from a rca to a yamaha 620 .Its better then denon

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Excellent sound and 2 component imputs

If you need to record from either VCR input you can not monitor that or watch any other video source. For example if you want to watch one recorder while using the other to record something YOU CANT. Whatever imput source is selected is all that can be watched and/or recorded. Also this unit has no preamp in/out so speakers like Bose 901's are not useable. I now own a useless pair of speakers.

The amp does have a lot of features, but you will not be able to use them in a flexable manner. For example, if you try to use TIVO's digital recorder, you're out of luck.. cause it requires an imput source while you're setting up for a recording. As a result you have to disconnect the Video output and input it to your monitor directly, not thru the 620 receiver. If you don't have enough S video inputs on your monitor, you won't be able to use this. Then, if you want to copy an S Video recording to say another S Video recorder, you will have manually change the output to your other recorder, since there is no way to select or direct signals either in composite or S video output. If you understood this, it'll keep you from the mistake I made. CrazyEddie doesn't want to exchange for Yamaha's more expensive units - and I don't blame them. Yamaha doesn't make this problem very clear in any product information.

Those who commented on the sound have been very fair to Yamaha; it gives a great Dolby Digital sound.

Those who commented on the remote control are very accurate.. when you're in the dark watching a movie - you'll have serious trouble finding almost anything on this relatively thin long device - reading anything on it, in dim light isn't gonna happen for most earthlings.

If you're a multifunction user this isn't it, and you'll be sorry.

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