Yamaha HTR-5830 5.1-Channel A/V Surround Receiver (Silver)

by Yamaha

Product Details

Product Manual [2.17mb PDF]

• Product Dimensions: 17 x 12 x 6 inches ; 19.8 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 23 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B0009319RQ
• Item model number: HTR-5830
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #101,756 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Yamaha HTR-5830 digital home theater receiver is a full-featured home theater receiver that sports some serious features. Among them are five-channel discrete amplification (110 w x 5 at 6 ohms), 14 surround programs, and Silent Cinema--Yamaha's exclusive technology that allows private listening enjoyment of multichannel music or movie sound, including Dolby Digital and DTS Digital Surround, through ordinary headphones. The HTR-5830 provides Dolby Digital, DTS and Dolby Pro Logic II decoding, and its digital-to-analog converters use an extremely high performance 192 kHz/24-bit operation type.

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With the HTR-5830, discrete power transistors, rather than chips, are used in the amplifier section to provide the cleanest sound possible. The amp delivers 110 watts each to five channels. With two component video and three digital inputs, the HTR-5830 can accommodate digital sources such as DVD, CD, MC/CDR, and digital TV/cable. A five-band graphic equalizer keeps you on top of your audio, and the HTR features a wide-range audio frequency response for DVD-audio/super-audio CD compatibility. Also featured is an AM/FM digital tuner with 40-station presets.

What's in the Box
HTR-5830 receiver, remote control, batteries, AM antenna, and FM antenna.

Product Description

Yamaha 5.1-Channel 550W (110W x 5) A/V Receiver. It features Yamaha's unique CINEMA DSP for outstandfing home theater performance, as well all Dolby formats and all DTS formats. It has Quad-Field CINEMA DSP and 14 Surround programs. It also features Night Listening Enhancer (Cinema/Music) and Silent Cinema. It has a 5-Band center graphic equalizer.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Agreed, a great receiver for the money, October 24, 2005

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M. Campbell (Rochester, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Yamaha HTR-5830 5.1-Channel A/V Surround Receiver (Silver) (Electronics)

I am writing this as a review of the *receiver*, NOT the amazon listing, it obviously is misrepresented here as it is NOT XM-ready, but that's no reason to bash the product itself.

I got this receiver to replace my old Pro-Logic that has served me well but is way past its prime. I really like the Yamaha RX-V657, but as I'm not ready to spend $500 right now, I decided to "settle" on this as a stopgap receiver.

I was surprised when I got it - this receiver is beefy, very heavy and well constructed. Even for an "entry-level" there are tons of features, and the remote is programmable to control other things, such as my DVD player (which it did out of the box, since it's also a Yamaha) and my TV, which is an RCA, with codes included in the box. Presto-chango, now I can switch inputs on the TV, seek DVDs, and edit the soundfields all from my receiver remote, without having to pay for a universal! Very nice.

I won't recap the specs, but subjectively it has a great sound, noticeably less distortion than my old amp on instrumentals. I will point out a couple of flaws: It only has two optical inputs, which may be a limitation to some (but for me, to get it for my DVD and my digital cable is good enough), and it only has RCA inputs for video. This sucks, since you can't use it as an S-Video switch and connect your TV just to the Video output. But, I will just switch the input on my TV manually, oh well, not a big deal. The banana jacks don't have through-holes, so you just have to wedge the wire underneath it and crank it down. Again, slightly inconvenient, but not a deal killer.

I had to pick out a few things I don't like that knocked it down to a 4, but overall and *especially* for the price, I am very impressed with this receiver.

P.S. Just to clear up any ambiguity:

RCA Video = 640 x 480 resolution = Not that great.
S-Video = 800 x 600 resolution = Much better, and widely available on even inexpensive TVs.
Component = Best resolution, but not as widely available.

Update 2/6/06: The Amazon listing has now removed any references to XM, which is great. I've been pleased with the receiver thus far, I have it hooked up to my DVD player via the optical input and once a DVD starts playing, it automatically switches the soundfield to Dolby Digital, and back to the previous setting when it stops (which is usually Dolby PL2 Music for my use). Great sound in general.

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Receiver for the money!!!, September 15, 2005

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G. Stanford "gregory__scott" (Mesquite,TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Yamaha HTR-5830 5.1-Channel A/V Surround Receiver (Silver) (Electronics)

Two of the reviews on here address the fact this receiver is not XM Ready and were misinformed. True it's not XM ready and true it did say in the review that it was XM ready.

This is my second Yamaha receiver, my first I bought in 1999 and paid about 799.00 for, this one sounds and performs just as well in most all areas. The fact it has Component Video pass thru is nice as well, my only gripe is that it has only 3 Digital inputs, but for the price can't beat it.

That being said the best place for specs on this unit is on the Yamaha web site. To be honest I have XM radio and I would never even think of adding to this or another receiver,first you must add the antenna about $49.00, and then you pay the same $12.95 a month for a slimmed down version of XM.

Very limited screen info with this unit when hooked to XM, better off buying a closeout Roady 2 for about 40 bucks and adding a home kit for around 20.

5.0 out of 5 stars The little receiver that does., December 19, 2010

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joyserve (Jacksonville,FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Yamaha HTR-5830 5.1-Channel A/V Surround Receiver (Silver) (Electronics)

To all the review writers that ether had problems or couldn't understand the manual, I've had my receiver 4 years now and it just fine, I wanted a nice rig but easy on the wallet, at the time i got this from Best Buy for $125 and since then I've gotten nothing but enjoyment out of it, added a pioneer 15 band graphic EQ and a fisher (old school) stereo reverb unit,bose cube speakers and can create any type of sound i choose, The HTR-5830 is connected to my dishnetwork dual HD receiver, 42" Sony HDTV and Sony (BR) DVD. Unless it dies or something freaky happens to it, This will be the mainstay of my system. If it's still around give it a chance,you don't have to spend a lot of money (unless that's what you wish to do) to have greatness in your living room.