Yamaha RX-V465BL 525 Watt 5-Channel Home Theater Receiver

by Yamaha

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 17 x 21.4 x 8.8 inches ; 18.5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 22 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: B001S2RD9U
• Item model number: RX-V465BL
• Batteries: 2 AA batteries required. (included)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (75 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #30,156 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

Style Name: RX-V465BL

From the Manufacturer

From the Manufacturer

Yamaha's New Home Theater Receiver

From the Manufacturer
Yamaha's new 525-Watt 5-Channel RX-V465 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), iPod and Bluetooth compatibility, Yamaha CINEMA DSP, improved YPAO sound optimization, and four SCENE buttons.

Four HDMI Inputs and one output support 1080p

Multiple inputs make the RX-V465 your home theater hub View Larger

Great Picture Quality for High-Definition Formats
The RX-V465 features four HDMI inputs and one output that supports 1080p resolution. This means you can connect four HDMI sources, such as a DVD player and a high-definition set-top box, and enjoy the highest possible quality with a 1080p display. With 1080p/24Hz signal repeating, you can enjoy the full potential of Blu-ray discs.

Component video inputs offer much higher picture quality than standard S-Video or composite connections. With the RX-V465, you can enjoy two different component sources without having to change connections.

High Dynamic Power Capability for Great Sound
The RX-V465 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 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.

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

YPAO analyzes the acoustics of the room

Next-Gen Connectivity and Flexibility
You can even bring your own tunes to the RX-V465. 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 RX-V465 to all versions of Apple's iPod, giving you the power to navigate and play via an onscreen menu.

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 RX-V465 features the 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.

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 TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio, Dolby Digital Plus and DTS-HD High Resolution Audio decoding 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.

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.

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.

SCENE- A New Level of Operating Ease
Four SCENE buttons make operating the RX-V465 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.

Product Description

Yamaha RX-V465BL 525 Watt 5-Channel Home Theater Receiver

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

62 of 63 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Versatile receiver for HD and music - Good Value, June 2, 2009

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josh u (south florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Yamaha RX-V465BL 525 Watt 5-Channel Home Theater Receiver (Electronics)

I've had the RX-v465 for over a month now, so i've had plenty of time to get comfortable with the receiver. I purchased this b/c it seemed like the best value. My major goals were to find a receiver that had HDMI vid and audio pass-thru and had good quality cd music output - and the rx-v465 delivered!

PROS:
I used the mic to auto-calibrate the sound quality - very easy (do this before using it). CDs (analog) sound great and digital audio sounds even better. The sound settings are great: it has several sound enhancer settings for a full/modern sound and even a 'direct' mode where the receiver uses the minimum electronics to provide a pure (almost vinyl) sound. These settings are easy to access once you get comfortable with the remote.

It has plenty of inputs for all of your older (rca) and newer (HDMI) devices. For TV, I run my comcast dvr box via an hdmi cable to the receiver, then run an hdmi from the receiver to the tv. For dvd, i run hdmi to the receiver. Only one cable (an hdmi) is needed from the receiver to the TV (sony bravia 52v5100). Video quality and dolby digital audio quality is excellent. It even allows you to view TV without turning on the receiver (downside in this mode is you can't listen to the sound system). Also, my cable remote can control the receiver volume when watching tv when the pass-thru mode is set (control-on).

CONS:
1. There is an annoying time delay (up to 3 seconds) when switching from HD to non-HD channels and when pulling up the dvr menu/list and cable guide. The receiver is thinking /switching digital modes and makes clicking sounds as it switches resulting in sound but no vid. This issue took me some time to get used to and will be a deal-breaker for most people.
2. Longer delay / thinking when the receiver is turned on and the hdmi input is set. Same clicking and no vid as it finds the right mode for the data that is coming in.
3. Remote is annoying, not built well, but whatever, its not a deal breaker.

OVERALL, i'm happy with this receiver at the price i paid when compared to other available receivers with similar features/functions.

39 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More Than I Expected, November 24, 2009

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Jeffery A. Lewis (Milford, CT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Yamaha RX-V465BL 525 Watt 5-Channel Home Theater Receiver (Electronics)

This receiver does everything I want it to, and then after carefully reading the manual, I realized it does a few other things that I was pleased about.

The best surprise was discovering this receiver has a HDMI pass-through capability. In a lot of cases when we watch TV, we are fine with the TV speakers. Don't really want to fire up the whole system just to watch the weather. I was intending to run the HDMI from the cable set top box directly to the TV and then running a digital optical from the set top box to the receiver. With the pass -through, I can just run an HDMI from set top box to receiver. The down side with the pass-through is you have to remember to switch to the HDMI input needed for pass-through before turning off the receiver.

Here is some clarification on Straight and Direct modes. From reading the manual, I thought the subwoofer would not be employed. I have a subwoofer hooked up to LFE, Bass Management set to SWFR, and front speakers set to Small. Using two channel Dolby sources, I found that in both Straight and Direct modes, the subwoofer was used. Straight is like having no DSP. Direct is like having no DSP and no tone processing. But the Bass Management seems to still be in play; at least with digital sources. I don't have any analog sources, so I can't comment on analog sources. This clarification is important to me because I have tiny front speakers not really capable of reproducing stereo music faithfully on their own. (see correction below)
-- Begin Update 1/9/2010 --
When you use two channel Dolby matrix encoded sources, what is stated above is true. Straight and Direct utilize the subwoofer. I have since realized with two channel PCM digital sources, Straight uses the subwoofer, Direct will not use the subwoofer. So if you want to listen to say a CD using a digital connection and you have small front speakers, use Straight or one of the Stereo modes. You will get full range sound with your subwoofer.
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-- Begin Update 12/10/2009 --
It appears that when you use Dolby TrueHD and the DTS-HD Master Audio, the Cinema DSP modes are not available. If you try to select a Cinema DSP mode, it will go to Straight. This is generally not a big deal, as most with a full 5.1 or 7.1 speaker setup will want to use Straight. I myself have a 2.1 speaker setup so was counting on Virtual Cinema DSP. Virtual Cinema DSP is not available in Straight. This is not a big deal to me because the Virtual Cinema DSP ended up being a bust anyways (see below).
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One of the reason I picked this receiver is the virtual surround feature (called Virtual Cinema DSP). I have to say I cannot hear the virtual surround effects. I switch between Straight (which has no virtual surround) to one of the Cinema DSP modes and cannot tell the difference. Oh well, I still am very happy with the receiver. I've only owned it a few days, so maybe I need to listen to more sources.

Don't get your hopes to high on the YPAO (Yamaha Parametric Acoustic Optimizer). This is a tool where you hook up a supplied microphone and have it kick off an automatic calibration process. I found that some things YPAO set was correct, but other settings it decided on was a bit flawed. It determined my speaker set up correctly. It determined the size of my front speakers correctly. It decided on the correct subwoofer setting. The distance settings were accurate to less than half a foot! Those are critical to get right. But the Bass Management cross over setting and subwoofer level I was not statisfied. It set the cross over to 160 Hz. This does not make sense when the frequency response of my subwoofer is 20 - 150 Hz and the frequency response of my fronts are 57 - 30,000 Hz. I decided to set the cross over to 100 Hz, the cross over setting recommended by the manufacture of my front speakers. Setting the subwoofer level ended up being a very long process of listing to many different music sources and movie sources. YPAO is not going to get you out of this effort if you want a nicely balance system.

Another feature I was pleasantly surpriced about is the Scene feature. It has ended up proving to be quite handy, especially for the rest of my family. With the Scene, you can program an input, processing, and can turn on another external device. What is great about Scene, is it not only switches to an input and processing, it will turn the unit on if it is off when you push one of the four scene buttons. So I tell my wife, "If you want to hear the cable tv through the stereo, just push the "TV" button." When she does this, the receiver turns on. The HDMI pass-through turns off. Audio amplification comes out the receiver. Audio to the TV via the HDMI out on the receiver is stopped (so no sound comes out the tv speakers). The right input is selected, and the right sound processing is selected. All from pushing one button.

Keep in mind, this receiver will not send analog video sources out the HDMI. So, for example, if you want to hook up your camera to the front composite video input, it will not go out the HDMI output. It will go out the composite video output. You need the next receiver up, RX-V565, to do that.

I am so happy with this receiver and I think the price is very fair. I can't really justify paying for a more expensive receiver because this one does everthing, and then some more, of what I want.

-- Begin Update 12/16/2009 --
Another thing I wanted to point out is the amp rating. It is not considered a full bandwidth amp. Most amps in this price range are not full bandwidth. Amps that are not rated full bandwidth will have problems in the low frequencies. I am not concerned about this because I have my Bass Management configured to put all the bass through the subwoofer. The subwoofer is powering the bass. You should be aware of this if you use full range speakers and you want the bass to come out these speakers. If I had full range speakers, I would still set them to "Small" and let the subwoofer handle the bass.
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63 of 69 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars High Hopes Dashed Easily - HDMI problem, June 10, 2009

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Michael J. Manfredi (Upstate, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Yamaha RX-V465BL 525 Watt 5-Channel Home Theater Receiver (Electronics)

When I set out to buy a receiver, I almost instantly settled on the Yamaha brand because of its excellent reputation and the fact I could sync up my lap top to it to play music through the bluetooth device (Yamaha YBA-10WH Bluetooth Wireless Audio Receiver for Select Yamaha Home Theater Receivers). My media center is also fully enclosed so I didn't want a unit that would run hot. I wasn't terribly concerned with format decoding or watts because I was using a DVD player that did all the decoding and I wasn't using overwhelming speakers (Harman Kardon HKTS-18 5.1 Channel Speaker System).

My problem - the unit refuses to cooperate with my HD DVR cable box that was provided to me courtesy of Time Warner. It is a Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8300 HDC. There is some problem with the HDMI "handshake" between the two units where the audio does not come through and the video will sometimes briefly cut out. This problem would still exist when I would turn off the Yamaha to allow the signal to simply "pass through".

Yamaha said its Time Warner's fault and TW said its Yamaha's fault. I ultimately gave up trying to figure it out and didn't feel like going throguh an exchange. Instead, I hooked up the HDMI cable to the TV and bought an optical cord for the audio to get sent from my TV to the receiver. While I don't mind since I like to watch sports with music in the background, this problem shouldn't exist!

Everything else on the receiver works very well and the features are outstanding. The receiver after hours of use only gets warm. Well worth the price. Would be a 5 star product if this problem didn't exist and Yamaha was more accomodating to try and help me out.

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