Yamaha YHT-591BL Home Theater in a Box (Black)

by Yamaha

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 85 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: B001S2RD8G
• Item model number: YHT-591BL
• Batteries: 2 AA batteries required. (included)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #69,739 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

Review from Home Theater Magazine

Review from HomeTheaterMag.com: Yamaha YHT-591 HTIB

With the YHT-591, Yamaha establishes a modest and reasonable set of goals and meets them well. The speaker enclosures and tweeters are of unexpectedly good quality. You get your money's worth. In fact, you could spend the same amount of money and do far worse. Read the full review at HomeTheaterMag.com.

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Product Description

Yamaha YHT-691BL Home Theater in a Box (Black)

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Sound, quality and runs cool, November 8, 2010

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David Nadas "Just Fix IT" (Brielle NJ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Yamaha YHT-591BL Home Theater in a Box (Black) (Electronics)

I own and operate a LifeStyle tech firm and home theater installation is a part of what I do. I researched quite a few systems for my own home that fit my particular application and selected the YHT-591IBL (HTR-6240) for a couple of reasons. The system was going into a small cabinet without a lot of venting so it needed to run cool, especially with a laptop, Wii, speaker control system, sub-woofer and IR receiver in the same cabinet. I did not want to see any wires or devices on the deck of my custom built-in wall unit. I also did not want overpowering aesthetics of the speakers themselves--but was unwilling to sacrifice the sound quality. After everything was installed, configured and tuned for the space, I sat down and watched "The Dark Night on my 55" Samsung 8000 LED. It was as if I was holding a video recorder on set, filming it--wow! When the building blew near the end of the movie, the sub-woofer kicked in and I lost a few chochkas off the shelf of the wall unit and subsequently needed to ratchet that speaker down a bit. I love it.
I will agree on the instruction set. I am technical so was able to get through it, but I do not think that any Home Theater System--aside from the Yamaha neoHD Media Controller is for the faint hearted. Yes, you can take it out of the box, follow the pictures and get it to work well, but like any system, these platforms need configuration and tuning to make them sing--and they sing beautifully.

A couple of notes:
- I needed to upgrade the Yamaha receiver (HTR-6240) firmware to get my Wii to work through the HDMI out of the receiver (hi geek factor on that) instead of running separate USB cable to LED Monitor.
- Added Xantech IR receiver (drilled a hole in between my cabinet doors an placed a beautiful brass eye to receive the IR signal). It is way cool looking and sleek.
- Added Logitech Harmony One Universal.
- Added the Yamaha iPod doc.

Once you figure out how to attach the Yamaha speaker tuner antenna and take the time to set it up on a camera tripod so you can get it at perfect ear level. The test itself is a piece of cake. I did not even need to balance beyond the test. Make sure you do not have obstructions in front of the speakers or any other music, TV or family members talking during the test.

Remotes that come with any manufacturer's product are great for that product and maybe the STB and DVD, so go get a universal remote, such as Logitech Harmony series. The Yamaha neoHD looks promising, but was overkill for my Yamaha and Xantech IR Receivers (LCD/CFL Proof Micro Link IR Receiver).


Are there better systems out there--absolutely, but for this application, this is as good as it gets. My guests all want the same rigs in their homes....

1 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Sound - remote and instructions are very difficult, March 9, 2010

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Gary Gene Mcmillen (St. Louis Metro area(IL)) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Yamaha YHT-591BL Home Theater in a Box (Black) (Electronics)

I am very pleased with the sound quality. Unless you have hooked up a better grade
system in the past, the remote will present a problem.

GGM