I agree with Jim about how bad this receiver sounds. My PSB's Stratus Mini's really sounded awful hooked up to the $850.00 Yamaha 992. There was no liveliness to the sound at all. Bass and lower midrange were muddy and the highs seemed muted, even after I hooked up my sub (Boston VR-500). Could be with bright speakers like the Boston CR line, Their new VR Powered speakers or the Klipsches, the 992 may be just the thing, but I need something more transparent. I even tried "direct-mode" stereo with the same results.
I've yet to try the Denon stuff, and plan to check out the Sherwood Newcastle R-925. My Sherwood 5050R actually sounds very good when using my sub. Very clear and fairly detailed for something I picked up for $150.00 mail-order.

I've had positive experiences with 2 different Yamaha pre-amps and they sounded nothing like the murky 992.The DSP surround modes seemed mostly useless as well, except for the Pro-Logic which was very detailed and ambient.

Changing effect modes also required a reset of channel levels, which was a real pain. It did remember your delay settings though.

Powerfull sound, accuracy and detail, value value value, good looks, multitude of functions, two sub out, second room out, two centre chanells conections, back lit remote, speakers a+b.

It doesnt wipe your ars! But it does everything els.

An absalute bargain, with brilliant sound and an awsome array of effects including 70mm movie theatre, dd enhanced, rock, jazz, hall, and heaps more.

Most of all, this processor lifts you into the higher end of movie home theatre sound, and once you have it you will never pay to sit in an vovie theatre again! Even my local pic theatre spent millions on there sound and with such a big erea to cover it doesnt match my RXV-992 when it comes to punch and detail! Yamaha manages to throw its sound effects around the room at a quick and rapid rate but still retaining a very respectable smoothness in its actions.

You will need five good speekers to obtain full potential from the 992 and a healthy sub will ensure you top range sound from all sourses, the RXV-992 will despose of cheep speekers at a rapid pace so don't waist your money on cheep speakers, do it right the first time.

This is a full monte amp with full monte sound, and was a bargain at new prices, so if you get one second hand its a steel! Damn good AV Reciever and have no intentions getting rid of it for a long time, and allso had no probs with this unit.

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Sherwood, Technics.

WHAT A RECIEVER I,M RUNNING A VELODYNE 18'' AND POLK SDA-SRS 2.3s ON THE FRONT AT1/2 VOLUMN ITS GREAT ON STEREO OR 5 CHANNEL NO NEED FOR ADDED AMP PUT FRONTS AND REARS ON SMALL. SUB WILL PICKUP THE BOTTOM AND WITH THE POLKS 6 TWEETER (SOOOO) SWEET, THE SONY 7000 HELPS, BUY ONE OR 2 OR 3 !!!!!!!!!!!TODD.

Value for money, great sound, 5 ch pre-out

no component inputs, reliability, hard-to-use remote control

I bought X992 sometime in 1997, replacing my old Dolby-logic only RXV352 (I think that was the model number). Anyway, I could tell right away the difference in sound quality, especially the much tighter bass. Of course, X992 has 80W/ch comparing to 50W/ch of my old receiver. I dont care much about DTS, so this is working fine for my HT.
After 3 years, my remote control is not working properly anymore. Each time a botton is pressed, it would take 2-3 seconds before the remote would send out the signal to receiver. Must be the processor in the remote that is malfunction. Also, each time I turn on the receive, there will be a loud "pop" from my center speaker. Don't know what is wrong with it. I am going to put in a 5-channel amp in the very near future, so the Yamaha will used exclusively as a pre-amp.

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Mine overheats with the volume not even close to halfway. The fan never even turns on. Yamaha says there is nothing wrong with the fan. An authorized repair shop (Meltons) says there is nothing wrong with my Amp. HiFi Buys won't take it back on a trade-in.
I am running 2 Klipsch KLF20 fronts, Klipsch center and infinity rears. I have had it cut off during CD play, DVD play (effect on and off).

inputs, multi-room feature, value

too few digital inputs

I replaced an old Pioneer pro-logic receiver with this, and the difference is amazing. My Pioneer suffered from poor sound at low volume -- There wasn't enough granularity at low volumes (it was always either too quiet or too loud, and there was no setting in between), and it didn't put out any signal to the subwoofer.
Now the Yamaha is driving my home theater, and the Pioneer has been demoted to the bedroom. I've got it set up so that the multiroom signal gets sent to the Pioneer, so that I can listen to music, watch TV, VCR, etc in the bedroom. Multiroom is a very nice feature, other brands of receivers don't seem to have it in the same price range.

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Overall Excellent product. It currently costs about what the RXV-795 costs and although it doesn't have DTS the beauty is that this unit has an all S-Video switching system for your LD, DVD, Sattelite, etc. Sound quality from AC-3 on movies is phenomenal, the unit has a very good processor. Excellent value for home theater.

Way too bright! Had borrowed the unit for a weekend to listen. Turned the volume almost halfway. I had to turn it back down because it actually started to hurt(Like needles piercing your ears). I'll stick with my Nakamichi AV-10. A much superior receiver. Give it a try!

I recently decided that it was time to put together a home theater system, and I bought a JCV 884 receiver... bad move. After fighting with it for some time
it was returned and traded in for a Yamaha 992. It was a couple hundred more,
but well worth it. It is really difficult to compare the two receivers, since
the JVC is simply a complete piece of crap compared to the Yamaha. Even though
the power ratings are lower than the JVC, the Yamaha produced enough volume to
rattle the windows with the volume control at about 10 o'clock. To get the same
volume from the JVC required a volume setting of 75-80 (out of 90). The JVC
was incredibly noisy in Dolby mode, lots of hissing and odd noises. The Yamaha
is completely quiet, even at high volume settings. When the JVC was running at
a fairly high volume, the smell of resistors was in the air. Not so the Yamaha.
The remote control for the JVC was cumbersome and questionable. The Yamaha
remote is large and complex, but fairly intuitive and easy to learn. If I had
to come up with any negative about the Yamaha, it would be only that there is
no optical input for the CD player. If you own a JVC 884, please get rid of it,
take it to a swap meet, or stack it in the attic, and go get a real receiver,
the Yamaha 992. You will be glad you did.

Great amp with lots of features. Powerfull and clean, excellent DSP features. Better than the Sony ES AV amps.
Easy to use.

Needs more digital optical inputs.
Remote is extremely difficult to program and use.

Clean, powerfull amp with lots of features. Great for movies. An AV receiver that is better for movies than music but nothing to balk at.

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Onkyo and the newer Yamaha RXV-995.