I purchase this at Tweeter's Clerance sale. Pro: Tons of features. Con: Remote not sufficient. Subwoofer output is not good. I strongly recommend people to shop around, looks like Yamaha is discontinuing the product. Some stores is selling this cheap.

Great value for the money. Yamaha name. Tons of power for my efficient system.

If anything, no backlighting on the remote. Minor, really.

Bought this unit because of reviews here and a good price through ShopSunshine (they too are recommended). Rocks my fairly large living room/home theater. Plenty of power, easy to set up and use, nice sound quality. I bought this more for movies, and have been extremely pleased. I even bought one for my parents, as my Dad got the home theater bug after listening to mine.

Great Sound costed me 308 instead of 479 Replaced my SOny pro logic receiver blah blah blah, if you own it, you know it baby!!

I'll name one if you do. So far, good stuff..

Thanks to the people that gave their good reviews, I have made the Right choice. This receiver kicks soo much ass. the Pro Logic II is great with Divx movies on my Sound Blaster Live sound card. Digital stuff sounds Ill also. Well thanks for telling the truth Reviewers, This receiver Rocks!!

Sounds terriffic.

Trouble with the S-video cable input and output to monitor. Initially didn't work, I hqad the cable checked (it was okay), and now I'm retesting it on the receiver.

The sound is very clear, and I'm still trying out the various sound options. Easy to set up, the auto DVD feature works great. Good looking unit - I bought it for the numerous optical inputs available.

Impressive home theater digital sound, many digital inputs, and sound formats.

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I use this receiver for my home theater, PC games and listening to music. I am very happy with this receiver's sound quailty as well as the digital inputs. I had to upgrade to this receiver because of lack of digital inputs on my Yamaha HTR-5150 and extra digital sound format. I have to say DTS ES 6.1 and Dolby Digital 5.1 EX are both awesome. I really enjoy watching Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the rings extended edition with this receiver as well as watching back to the future DVD. It is perfect for my usage. This receiver also have planty of power. If you are looking for inexpensive receiver that have DTS-ES with Dolby Digital 5.1 EX, deliver spectacular sound quailty home theater sound, look no further. This receiver is it! My system: Yamaha HTR-5560 Infinity CC-3 (Front center) Sony SSM-F600H (front main A) Sony SS-MF515 (front main B) Acoustic Research 318PS (Rear) Audio Source SW-15 subwoofer Acoustic Research C225PS (Rear center) Acoustic Research interconnect and optical Sony 32 inch Trinitron XBR TV Panasonic DVD RX-31 Hitachi VHS Onkyo DX-C730

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Many features at a great price TOp Art

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I Purchased the Rxv 730 at A&B sound. the Rxv 730 is pretty much the same as the Rxv 630, save for the fact that it has phono inputs and an LCD remote that is similar to the Yam htr 5490.The Rxv 630 is identical to the htr 5560. I got a great deal with the 730, as I received a 100 dollar discount at A&B sound. For the price, this is probably the best receiver to get, for its many features. You 75 continuous full- bandwidth watts. It also has high-current capability, although not as high as say Harmon Kardon's avr 125, which has +/- 25 amperes, compared to Yamaha's +/- 15 amps or so. High current is important, as it means the receiver can get a firmer grasp of your speaker diaphragms,and thus help to reduce rattle and distortion at high volumes. As a matter of fact, I tested the H/K avr 125 against the Yamaha rxv 730 using a pair of 200 watt 8 ohm towers.The dvd I used was Fight Club, with its various explosive scenes. Both sounded awesome, but when I go to the scene "Operation Latte Thunder" , with the big ball rolling, the Yamaha switched off into protection mode before long, while the H/K handled it easily with it 45 watts of continuous average power x 5 (which, as a matter of fact is equivalent to a peak rating of over 200 watts per channel). Perhaps it wasn't fair to compare it to a much more powerful amp, but it was very informative I thought. However, I prefer the Yamaha over the H/K, as it is close in price, but has far more features, like a-b speaker switching, component video switching, too many dsp modes to play with, better remote, smaller size etc. The remote knob on the avr 125 had a loose cheesy feel to it, whereas the Yamaha was nice and stiff, and has the volume calibrated in 1/2 decibels instead of one decibel increments like H/K and others,and allows for far more precise volume control on all speakers.Thd on Yamaha is a little better too at 0.06 % at 8 ohms 20 20000 hertz. H/K is 0.07%. Ha ha. My next to useless opinion is: If you want pure, clean, unbridled power to handle the most demanding speaker loads, stick with H/K. But if you want value, economy, versatility, reliability,affordability, Yamaha is for you. That's only my opinion of course, and you know what people say about those. A lot of it is simply a matter of personal preference, anyway.

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Easy to setup with comprehensive manual Sufficient power to scare your neighbours! Superb surround clarity Soundstages can improve a bland musical piece For the price it can't be bettered

The musical reproduction of this unit is not as good as the cinema surround.

I've just set myself up with this receiver and a full set of JBL speakers... Center - StudioII Fronts - S310II Rears - S38II Sub - PB12 The receiver set-up manual is pretty straightforward and gives ample descriptions of the various soundstages. The soundstages can provide a much more rewarding music experience, particularly when used with live recordings on the 'Jazz Hall' and 'Rock Concert' settings. The '6ch Stereo' is a fantastic solution for unobtrusive but clear background party music if the need ever arises. However, the real quality of the unit comes out when using it as a home theatre amp. For starters, the Dolby ProLogic II sounds fantastic coming from TV signals. I have to say I've heard a few surround systems in various price brackets but this set-up is one of the best I've ever heard for Digital home theatre. (Try the first few minutes of Star Wars Ep2....) The HTR5560 gives you everything you could want from a receiver under $500. I'd certainly recommend these speakers with this unit too, I checked the whole setup out as individual components on the "audioreview.com" website and I haven't been disapponited with their combined performance.

Very clean and natural sound. This one wont sound "warm" or add any other type of coloration to the signal. What goes in will come out. Yamaha has probably the best sound field options in the industry. This one uses the same chip as every other Yamaha model with the exception of the top of the line model. Kudos to Yamaha for making at least some of their equipment available to those who dont have access to a specialty audio store.

Available to the masses via mail order/online sales and large chain electronic stores - according to the previous reviewer. I think everyone should have the opportunity to obtain a quality piece of electronic equipment even if they dont live near a specialty audio store.

The previous reviewer sounds like he either owns or works at a specialty audio store. Unfortunately not everyone has such a store located within a reasonable distance from their home. According to the Yamaha website, the RX-V series and HTR series are virtually identical except for a few cosmetic features (gold lettering vs white lettering). The internal amplifiers are the SAME. Obviously the previous reviewer does not own the HTR-5560 - I dont know why he is submitting a review for a piece of equipment he doesnt even own. This is a high quality home theater receiver that can hold its own against any other top name brand such as Denon, Onkyo or HK in this price range.

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Flexibility in customizing the setup options. Plenty of power for home theater in a 20x15 room. Clarity and nuance of sound reproduction is incredible. Awesome sound fields for music and different types of films.

Remote is not backlit or glow in the dark. From a user perspective, it's hard to believe that an "all in one" programmable remote cannot be used easily in the dark. Since many people use minimal lighting for home theater application, there's a real market opportunity here. Maybe they should include a small flashlight with these things! I agree with others that the remote is not very intuitive (even with the lights on).

Sold my Yamaha R-V1103 to buy the 5560 for our home theater. After dialing in the initial setup, I watched Lord of the Rings and was blown away. I was skeptical about stepping down in power from 100W to 75, but it well powered for my needs.

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Price, power, pre-outs gets you to 6.1 matrix and Dolby Pro Logic II.

Not a TRUE DTS 6.1 discrete decoder. Only one coax input (although this seems to be an increasing disease amongst receiver makers as the Denon AVR982 only has 1 as well). Too bright for my tastes, your mileage may vary.

Good features, plenty of power (see below), and if you want to go the shopsunshine.com route, unbeatable price. However, it is not a true DTS 6.1 DISCRETE receiver and it is a little bright sounding overall for my tastes. Let me express my increasing disgust and bewilderment at the irrelevance of wattage specs. Rated at 6chx75watta@8ohms this unit is absolutely as powerful as my HTR-5250 rated at 100watts. It is all in the brand people: An Aiwa at a (claimed)100 watts isn't going to outperform this Yamaha in any way shape or form. It is most certainly a good unit overall getting your couch planted behind into some good 6.1 sound today for $350.00 You cannot really complain at all for that price point, it is simply a steal. I want to make a Special mention for Pro Logic II decoding. I am amazed out how good it is; catch some Star Trek; there are moments here and there where you'd almost swear you were listening to digital 5.1 However, The taglines for this model on most seller's sites will tend to read "DTS 6.1 ES Discrete" as one of the things it does. Well the accurate word to have on the end of the tag is "compatible" because it will automatically matrix 6.1 discrete. I was a little bummed because I did want to go all the way and get a TRUE DTS 6.1 discrete decoder. Also, I simply found it a little too bright. My Yamaha HTR-5250 was not (I have both, easily A/B's). This has sometimes been a criticism of Yamaha components (the overbrightness) and the 5250 was known to NOT suffer from this so I think I am pretty accurate that this guy is on the bright side. With the right speakers this won't matter and if your ears tell you it is good, well, it is. So those 2 factors caused me to return this fellow and go with a Denon AVR982, you can read my review of that on this site.

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