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

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 15.7 x 21.3 x 8.8 inches ; 25 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 21 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• Note: Gift-wrapping is not available for this item.
• ASIN: B001S2RDB8
• Item model number: HTR-6230BL
• Batteries: 2 AA batteries required. (included)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #18,796 in Electronics (See Bestsellers in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: February 20, 2009

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

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars If you are not a geek, beware !, November 11, 2009

By	Sam B (Switzerland) - See all my reviews

I bought this system, with a new Samsung 1081P TV and Samsung Blueray disk player. Am not usually adverse to technical stuff, but this was a hard one to crack. The manual is definitly not intuitive, nor the setup.

My initial mistake was to think that HDMI cable would reduce the wires behind the setup, so linked them up and : no sound. Going "straight" gave sound to the TV but no sound in the loudspeakers.

After several hrs pondering and trying to understand the manual, I was left with the choice or returning the Yamaha, or keep trying.

After about 5 attempts of 2 hrs, I was still nowhere. The loudspeakers were properly connected, (5 for surround, and 2 large High quality stereo for classical music) as after some fumbling, I got the radio to work on all speakers, but the DVD and HD satelite TV ? nothing.

In desperation I asked a young geek to come, and he sat and pondered for a good hr, and finally worked out that the HDMI did not carry the sound for this Yamaha, more fumbling we connected more cables and 30 min's later it worked, at last.
But beware this Yamaha is not for the ordinary technical minded person.
It is definitely not intuitive and the manual not straight forward. (I use many microsoft PC programs, and have gone deep into the software features, without ever looking at a manual - just for comparison)

I still haven't figured out how to work my Ipod (or equivalent) through the front input jack, maybe when I have more courage, I will try again later.

Conclusion: It works, but you sure have to have a lot of "geek" perseverance to get it straight and working.

4.0 out of 5 stars good but not perfect :), December 1, 2009

By	Jesus Cabello (Chicago, IL. USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Ok, so like the other guy said, it works fine but the HDMI doesn't carry sound (Which totally sucks because that is the whole point of using HDMI) so you have to use either an extra coaxial or optical cable besides the HDMI. Other than that i really like it, it's perfect for what it costs and i love the sound.

0 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Perfect system, September 8, 2009

By	O. K. Maharaj - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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This does everything you need. the only fault is that it is a bit bulky.