AV RECEIVER REVIEWS

What a lousy receiver. Yamaha just keeps getting worse and worse. Every single one of Denon's budget receivers has an on screen display. There's absolutely no excuse for excluding this feature. Also, Yamaha has a version of their YPAO auto setup software that does not have an equalizer of any kind. They used it in their budget receivers many years ago when they first introduced their auto setup feature. It just sets up the basics (size, distance, crossover, etc). Surely they could have at least included that much at this price point. Why should anyone buy a receiver that can't even properly indicate what surround mode it's operating in? This is a piece of crap receiver from Yamaha and never should have been rolled out in this state.

Way to go Yahama!!! Cut the cost by eliminating not so important features and not compromising on performance. It's nice to know you can build a decent home theater with a $250 receiver. Kudos.

Scott, as you say, this receiver seems to deliver quite a lot for the price point. So the Value rating seems low, doesn't it?
Isn't value a ratio between performance/feature and price? and at that price, I would believe the ration being pretty high...
What really bugs me is I believe having read that article online a day ago, and the rating were higher than that... Maybe you can let me know I was dreaming!!!

Purchased about three months ago in New Zealand. The YPAO mic input sits about 3 o'clock 4 cm from the power button. This set-up program seems to work really well.

Sound wise - I'm not as articulate as the fine reviewers here, but, I've been using a two channel Pioneer A400X since it was new, dabbled in HT in a box (Yuk), so, still wanting to invest in home theatre sound (but not totally convinced that AV units can sound as good as 2 channel for 2 channel units) I purchased my Yamaha RX-V371 - entry level I know, but money less spent if the sound was custard.

It's lovely. It really is.

It's making my older (but happy) Tannoy Mercury M20's sound wonderful and (dare I say it) more detailed and enjoyable than my A400X (sorry old friend - retire for a while).

Tannoy's sounded so good I purchased a couple of Tannoy Murcury M15's (closer enough for voice matching - same early 1990's era), added an entry level Velodyne Impact mini and a Paradigm center.

Sweet sweet sound from everywhere - most enjoyable.

I'm very happy with the RX-V371. Not sure why your review unit doesn't have the YPAO feature. Older (perhaps?), newer and they've dropped the feature (unlikely?). Don't know really.

For those who don't like this receiver because of a lack of YAPO then do realise some units do have this feature.

Just came across this review. While I tend to agree with the reviewer, I think some information in this review is inaccurate. The RX-V371 receiver does decode DTS-HD Master. Yamaha website, and all specification pages I have seen indicate this. I have this receiver and I know it as well.
It also displays DTS HD Master, Dolby TrueHD or whatever sound decoders on the front panel. Just press the "info" button on the remote to switch to "sound decoder" mode. You can select to display input, surround sound mode, and sound decoder, I think.
I agree that if they just add auto calibration feature (for model sold in North America), this receiver would score high and it will be much easier to use for its targeted customers: entry level. It's pretty interesting because they have YPAO auto calibration in this exact same model for European and other markets, as the commenter from New Zealand pointed out, but not US version.