Yamaha RX-A1010BL 7.2-Channel Network AV Receiver

price, reliability, design

usability

89% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Excellent performance for music and movies ; Full Networking functionality for streaming audio ; Slick HDMI control allows you to automatically switch between TV speakers & A/V receiver sound ; Plenty of HDMI inputs and legacy connections

Crammed and limited remote control ; Unable to take advantage of front presence & surround back channels simultaneously

Diversity of Outputs and Inputs ; Fantastic internet connectivity ; Ability to truly control device via laptop, iphone, android with excellent interfaces ; Ability to downconvert digital audio to analog for 2nd zone

Does not output brief onscreen messages (volume change etc) via componenet video, only HDMI

I reaserched for weeks before pulling the trigger. Looked at reviews on other sites and user expierence ; This reciever is nice! Love all the functions when hooked up to the interwebs! Using my iPhone as a remote and streaming my iTunes from it too!...

Menu takes a little getting use to. The YPAO will more than likely have to be tweaked as I had to do to tune it like you want