Yamaha HTR-6250BL 630 Watt 7-Channel Home Theater Receiver

by Yamaha

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 17 x 21.4 x 8.8 inches ; 60 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: B001S2RDAO
• Item model number: HTR-6250BL
• Batteries: 2 AA batteries required. (included)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #83,235 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

From the Manufacturer

Yamaha's New Home Theater Hub

Yamaha's new 630-Watt 7-Channel HTR-6250 Home Theater Receiver offers many advanced features to ensure maximum enjoyment of your home entertainment sources. These include 1080p-compatible HDMI (4-input, 1-output), XM and SIRIUS Satellite Radio capability, iPod and Bluetooth compatibility, Yamaha CINEMA DSP, improved YPAO sound optimization, multi-zone custom installation options, and four SCENE buttons.

Multiple inputs make the HTR-6250 your home theater hub View Larger

High Dynamic Power Capability for Great Sound
The Yamaha HTR-6250 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 high-quality Burr-Brown 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 urround 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 TrueHD and DTS_HD Master Audio, Dolby Digital Plus and DTS-HD High Resolution Audio with extreme accuracy, as well as all digital sound field processing.

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 (0-240ms).

HDMI upgrades for higher-than-ever quality

Refresh your MP3s with the Compressed Music Enhancer

1080p Video Upscaling and Deep Color (30/36-bit) Transmission
The HDMI interface upgrades the transmission of standard, enhanced, and high-definition video signals via HDMI for higher-than-ever quality through a single cable. With four HDMI inputs and one HDMI output, you can connect a variety of high-definition sources such as Blu-ray Disc or HD-DVD players and switch easily among them.

The Yamaha HTR-6250 supports the latest HDMI 30- and 36-bit color depths, improved from the 24-bit depth of previous versions. This "Deep Color" allows the rendering of billions of colors for far greater accuracy. Colors are so vivid they seem to jump off the screen, with perfectly smooth tonal transitions and ultra-fine gradations between colors. It also enables many times more shades of gray, for higher contrast ratio.

Component Video Upconversion with TBC
The Yamaha HTR-6250 is equipped with high-definition video upconversion circuitry incorporating high-performance video encoder/decoders from Analog Devices. A Time Base Corrector (TBC) transforms degraded analog video signals into a stable format for distortion-free viewing.

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.

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

Next-Gen Connectivity and Flexibility
In addition to great video and sound quality, the Yamaha HTR-6250 lets you bring music from multiple next-generation sources into your home. 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 HTR-6250 to all versions of Apple's iPod, giving you the power to navigate and play via an onscreen menu.

SILENT CINEMA and Virtual 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. Virtual CINEMA DSP lets you enjoy the effects of CINEMA DSP surround sound without using surround speakers, perfect for use in custom installations where some rooms don't have surround speakers. It can be used with the front/center/presence speakers, or even with just the two front left and right speakers.

Improved YPAO for Hassle-Free Configuration
Yamaha's YPAO Sound Optimization system analyzes the acoustics of the room and adjusts various speaker parameters to provide optimum sound quality at the listening position--all in less than three minutes. Yamaha's YPAO system uses a small microphone and sophisticated equalization to automatically set the best sound for any room, no matter where the speakers are. First it checks the speaker connections and phase of each speaker. Then it sends out tones which are captured by the microphone to analyze the room acoustics and sets a variety of parameters, such as the speaker size, the distance of the speakers and even the sound pressure level, etc. It does this until it achieves the best sound conditions for your room, and you don't have to adjust a thing. The Yamaha HTR-6250 has an improved YPAO system that automatically selects the crucial frequency bands for the listening room, and then adjusts the level of the selected bands to create a cohesive sound field in the room.

SCENE - A New Level of Operating Ease
Four SCENE buttons make operating the Yamaha HTR-6250 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.

On-Screen Display Makes Navigation Easy
An on-screen display makes operating the Yamaha HTR-6250 easy and intuitive. Access and control everything you need from a simple and easy-to-navigate interface.

Product Description

Yamaha HTR-6250BL 630 Watt 7-Channel Home Theater Receiver

Customer Reviews

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Receiver for the price., April 26, 2009

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Donald J. Christie "DonC" (Las Vegas) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Yamaha HTR-6250BL 630 Watt 7-Channel Home Theater Receiver (Electronics)

There are two model numbers for this AV Receiver as disclosed on CNET. One model number is the RX-V565BL, the other is the HTR-6250BL, which I purchased. At various times, the prices of the two vary on Amazon, so I just went with the cheaper one. I coupled the receiver with the Energy Take Classic 5.1 and was able to get two satellites on Ebay to complete a 7.1 speaker system. To round out the system I have the Mitsubishi DLP 73". I also have the PS3, xbox360 and Wii hooked up.

Unlike another reviewer who had a problem with his Tivo Series 3 with RX-V565 version of the receiver, I had no problem at all. Iif you have a problem with the HDMI, just use the Tivo component out and digital optical out direct into the Yamaha. It works perfectly.

The biggest problem I had in hook up was my inability to connect the Wii directly through the Yamaha. I use the component video cable for the Wii. This Wii cable has two rca connectors for audio.

There are two composite inputs on the Yamaha. One has a coaxial audio and the other has digital optical audio. There is no connection for composite video plus two rca female audio inputs. I ended up connecting the Wii output video straight to the tv, without the benefit of the 1080p upscaling of the Yamaha, and the audio only to the receiver. Because of this I can only give the receiver 4 stars.

The sound from the system is very clear. I am still playing with all of its sound options and will update the review after I have more experience with the sound options.

UPDATE I found this inexpensive work around for the Wii audio hookup on Amazon: RCA DT2AD 2-Way Signal Converter DT2AD. It allows conversion of the analog audio to digital audio.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Works with Wii component cable now, January 16, 2010

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Mark Adler (Pasadena, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Yamaha HTR-6250BL 630 Watt 7-Channel Home Theater Receiver (Electronics)

I've had this unit since April 2009, and I am very pleased with it, but only after two firmware updates from Yamaha.

The first problem I had was unreliable HDMI signal passing from a Panasonic Blu-ray player to a Panasonic TV. (Naturally those two worked fine when connected directly to each other, bypassing the receiver.) That was solved by the May 2009 firmware upgrade from Yamaha.

The second problem was its inability to connect a Wii using the component video cable. The two inputs for component video (AV1 and AV2) only allowed optical and coaxial digital audio respectively, but the Wii component video cable only provides analog (L/R) audio. This was solved with the August 2009 firmware update, which permits the assignment of video from any of the inputs (HDMI1-4, AV1-6, or Video Aux) to the input selections AV3-4 or Audio1-2, where the audio then comes from those analog inputs.

The receiver now serves all of my needs, and well. I have a Blu-ray player, DVR, VCR, LaserDisc player (really), iPod (requires the separate Yamaha iPod dock), Wii, and a wireless connection to my laptop iTunes for audio, and lastly I have an HDMI cable hanging out the front to connect to my laptop for movies and TV shows. And of course it has a built-in AM/FM receiver which I occasionally use and which works fine. (The name "receiver" is analogous to the name "phone" for our cell phones which now do far more than act as a telephone, but which we still occasionally use that way.) My system with this receiver as the central hub works perfectly, with excellent video and audio quality. The receiver is connected to a Panasonic LCD 1080p TV, and a set of six Paradigm speakers for 5.1 audio. (I have two more Paradigm speakers sitting around waiting to make it 7.1, but I haven't gotten around to hooking those up.) Keep in mind that the speakers you pick have far more leverage on your audio quality than the receiver does. I highly recommend Paradigm.

I don't use the remote control that came with the receiver, since I have universal (a Harmony 1). I would highly recommend a universal remote for this type of system -- they're definitely worth it.

The iPod interface is great and not expensive, which is one of the main reasons I picked this receiver.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great stereo for the price, November 12, 2009

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Chris S "Jeep Nut" (BC, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Yamaha HTR-6250BL 630 Watt 7-Channel Home Theater Receiver (Electronics)

The on screen menus and automatic sound field setup using the included mic make this model much easier to get tuned for best surround sound than lower models. It also has really good sound for both movies and music, and a good FM tuner.

Upscaling from the analog RCA inputs to the HDMI output simplifies hookup, and the upscaling is quite good with none of the distortion patterns I have seen created by other units.

The ability to specify an automatic volume setting for when you first turn the unit on means that if the person before you had the music cranked you don't get blown out of your chair while you scramble for the remote.

The lack of binding-post style (aka bannana plug) connections for the center channel is a bit of a peeve, but pin adapters are inexpensive if, like me, your speaker wire is too thick to fit the cheap push-clip type connectors. The mains do have binding posts.

I found the 6250 to be a great unit for the price. Naturally the sound won't compare to audiophile quality equipment, but for typical speakers in a typical living room or TV room you will hardly notice the diffence between this amp and one twice the price. I wouldn't recommend going any lower in Yamaha (or anyone else's) lineup, as below this model you start giving up a lot of key features.

For reference I have the amp connected to Paradigm Studio Monitor Speakers in front with a Paradigm full size center, Paradigm Mini Mark II rears, and a 10" powered sub. These are quite good for moderately priced speakers.