Yamaha HTR-6230BL 500 Watt 5-Channel Home Theater Receiver

by Yamaha

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 15.7 x 21.3 x 8.8 inches ; 20.9 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 21 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• 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: B001S2RDB8
• Item model number: HTR-6230BL
• Batteries: 2 AA batteries required. (included)
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,341 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
  • #46 in Electronics > Televisions & Video > AV Receivers & Amplifiers
  • #76 in Electronics > Home Audio & Theater > Stereo Components > Receivers & Amplifiers > Component Receivers

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Yamaha's New Home Theater Hub

Yamaha's new 500-Watt 5.1-Channel HTR-6230 is a high-value home theater receiver that offers many advanced features to enhance your entertainment experience. These include HDMI switching with 1080p video pass-through (2-input, 1-output), iPod and Bluetooth audio compatibility, CINEMA DSP, Yamaha's Compressed Music Enhancer, and four SCENE buttons.

Multiple inputs make the Yamaha HTR-6230 your home theater hub View Larger

High Dynamic Power Capability for Great Sound
The Yamaha HTR-6230 is capable of delivering large amounts of reserve power for accurate reproduction of the high energy peaks that are especially prevalent in digital audio sources. This prevents clipping and emphasizes the music's dynamic qualities. This receiver also uses 192kHz/24-bit DACs for all channels. The DACs provide accurate sound field reproduction for high-quality multi-channel sources, and outstanding separation and precise musical delineation for two-channel sources.

CINEMA DSP Digital for Enhanced Surround Realism
Conventional multi-channel audio reproduction systems base their sound on Dolby Digital and DTS decoding, using matrix and steering technologies to create surround sound effects. Yamaha CINEMA DSP is much more advanced, actually creating richly realized independent sound fields that envelop you in an unmatched surround sound experience. With dialogue, music and effects ideally located in these separate sound fields, you will hear sound with accurate placement, smooth movement, exceptional clarity and richness, and startlingly realistic presence. It will seem as if the walls of your room have disappeared and you are in the middle of your own immense theater. The decoding circuitry performs Dolby Pro Logic II, Dolby Digital and DTS Digital Surround decoding with extreme accuracy, as well as all digital sound field processing.

Four HDMI Inputs and one output support 1080p

Refresh your MP3s with the Compressed Music Enhancer

SCENE - A New Level of Operating Ease
Four SCENE buttons make operating the Yamaha HTR-6230 easier than ever. Pressing a single SCENE button automatically launches the multiple operations that initiate play of the source controlled by that button. They are initially set to default settings for DVD Viewing, Disc Listening, TV Viewing and Radio Listening. Other SCENE settings are also available, such as iPod Listening, XM Listening, TV Sports Viewing and Action Game Playing.

Audio Delay Compensation Keeps Your Experience On Track
The latest display devices perform complex internal processing, causing time lag in the video signal. It is a small difference, but because the audio arrives first, the viewer may feel that something is not natural. The Audio Delay function for adjusting Lip-Sync matches the audio to the timing of the output of the video on the screen.

SILENT CINEMA DSP
SILENT CINEMA makes it possible to hear large-scale surround sound through ordinary headphones. This is a variation of CINEMA DSP technology that Yamaha developed to let you listen in private to movies and other multi-channel sources for hours without listening fatigue.

Optional docks for your iPod or Bluetooth phone set your music free

Next-Gen Connectivity and Flexibility
Bringing your own tunes to the Yamaha HTR-6230 is easy. It is equipped to use Yamaha's optional YBA-10 Bluetooth Wireless Audio Receiver, giving you the flexibility to stream music from Bluetooth enabled mobile phones, portable devices and even your personal computer. The optional YDS-11 Universal iPod Dock connects the Yamaha RX-V365 to all versions of Apple's iPod.

Compressed Music Enhancer Refreshes Your Music
Yamaha employs sophisticated digital signal processing with exclusive algorithms to enable playback that improves the performance of compressed music formats, including MP3 and WMA. With the Compressed Music Enhancer, highs and especially lows are richer and smoother, bringing music back to life to be as close to the original as possible.

Great Picture Quality for High-Definition Formats
The Yamaha HTR-6230 features dual HDMI inputs and one output that can support all HD video formats, including 720p, 1080i and 1080p. This means you can connect two HDMI sources, such as a DVD player and a high-definition set-top box, and enjoy the highest possible quality with HD display (does not support audio signal).

Component video inputs offer much higher picture quality than standard S-Video or composite connections. With the Yamaha HTR-6230, you can enjoy three different component sources without having to change connections.

Product Description

Yamaha HTR-6230BL 500 Watt 5-Channel Home Theater Receiver

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great sounding amplifier, December 11, 2009

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Roger P. Grimshaw - See all my reviews
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I recommend this unit highly. It would get five stars if it was a bit less complicated. But it does so much so perhaps that is inevitable. The remote has fifty-nine buttons! So far I have used about ten. Maybe when I get around to controlling my CD player from this remote I'll use some of the others, and need one less remote too. Currently I am using it as a stereo receiver with a Yamaha CD player, with two Polk side speakers and a Polk sub-woofer.
I am very pleased with the sound [I do not consider myself an audiophile but I do enjoy my music, classical, opera and rock mostly]. Plenty of volume, more bass available than I need but that part is easy to adjust. The room where I have this unit is 20' by 25' with a 12' celing, and there's no problem filling it with sound. Rock on!
I am impressed and consider it very good value for money too.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Yamaha HTR-6230BL 500 Watt 5-Channel Home Theater Receiver, January 25, 2010

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Fred - See all my reviews

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The receiver arrived 3 weeks earlier than promised. I found the instructions clear and helpful. The unit itself seems to be functioning properly and has some interesting features. There are are some things I am not too happy with, specifically: the sound is full but seems overly bassy, even without a sub-woofer, but I am using only moderately priced small speakers. There is a treble control but it doesn't seem to do very much. The sub-woofer output seems to be at microphone level, I had to amplify it before it would run a powered sub-woofer. This may be normal since this is the first receiver of this kind I have had. I am not using surround speakers so I can't comment on that capability. I like the control available on the center speaker to equalize it with the LR ones.

I was somewhat disappointed that the reviews and general information on the HDMI didn't address more carefully that there is no audio feed from the HDMI input, but that is not uncommon for lower end receiver. I am not using the unit to switch inputs. I run the video and audio from my DVR and DVD/VHS Player directly into my HDTV and use the TV audio output for the receiver. I may opt to change that if I find that the audio is enhanced by running directly from the DVR and DVD player to the receiver.

All in all, I am quite satisfied with the receiver and would recommend it to others.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Yamaha receiver review, May 15, 2010

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Bako Abatcha "Bujebi" (Brentwood, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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Exellent product, the initial setup was a bit tricky but once I am familiar with it, the rest is history.