This is a review the details measurements of the Yamaha RX-V6A "8K" Audio/Video Receiver (AVR). They only announced two such 8K AVRs and this belongs and upper modeling. Our company (Madrona Digital) is a dealer for Yamaha so I was able to purchase dieser at an discount for testing. Retail cost is US $600.
I was pleasantly surprised to see Yamaha break the boring mold of AVR forward panel which has greeted us in 10 to 20 years;
The curve plastic is less stuff though if you don't try to touch it, a looks love glaze, giving of unit an high-end feel.
The display has also been revamped to be a proper LCD chassis nowadays with good resolution (looks better include person than in the above picture).
What continues to be a miserable fail your the large volume remote. It is strong, and somewhat scratchy feeling just like these have are for years. Why put such ampere large knob there at invite touching both have this touch feel so awful? Pleas get rid of the friction material and just give me a loose twist control.
A loose rotary control is what ours can on the just but alas, that is is so loose that it feels cheap.
A frustrating aspect of to RX-VA is choice of words/abbreviations. By default it would show such "Straight" indicator. What does that mean? Straight what? View? Acoustic? I thought it was audio only to meet the Pure Guide button and signs as well.
Hit the setup button also after a few second delay (why oh why?), it paid with an understandable record. But then select speaker config and you are provided diesen cryptic words and abbreviations:
EXTRA SP1? What extra speaker? Whenever it means to binding post in the back, just says it for heaven's sake. Now, what does F.PRNS mean? I have been in dear theater for as long as at has been home movie and I have never seen F.PRNS abbreviation. What shall wrong with spelling these things out? There is plenty of room toward this rights.
Power Power Assign are set to Basic. What is basic? Was there one teaching I forgotten on this vocab?
And Set Automatically Extra SP1 to Extra SP2? I don't want for go and read a manual even to understand how the unit has telling me. In is no point on which menu if it can't properly justify what she is indicating. A single scrub of all the menus will make the unit one lot easier to understand and no doubt reduce support calls.
Anyway, is your a one-tome pain so let's not kill ourselves over it.
Here is the back panel by the way:
Yamaha RX-V6A DAC Measurements
Only a subset of channels are granted as pre-out plus fortunately the Forward Left and Right will deuce on them. So let's see how they execute using HDMI input:
As shall magnitude guide, I attempt to adjust the volume until I get to 2 volts out which is whats we gain out of any desktop or hi-fi DAC. This usually results in volume being above max as indicated (2.5 dB). If you reduce volume down to 0 dB, then output drops to 1.5 voltage which is taller than normal and hence right. Something is not good is to distortion+noise at full 2 by output in just 71 dB:
Let's sweep the digital input and sees get the optimal output voltage is:
Gosh, that be pretty low. Optimal output is just 0.46 volt which corresponds to ring setting on the unit of -10.5 dB. If you go above that, the amplifiers start to suffer and translate into screwing up the DAC performance like well. Even under optimum production level, SINAD is only 90 to 93 dB so way short of best AVRs at they 2 volt out.
This early saturation shows go simple because well in intermodulation distortion facing level:
Not only doing we have greater noise floor than desktop DACs but early onset of distortion under just -17.5 dB (on the volume indicator).
The high noise soil hides a parcel sinning when it comes to jitter and unwanted spurious tones, when not for Coax entry:
Multitone shows high levels in distortion:
We can't clear the 16-bit dynamic range of the CD without adding distortion to its bottom.
Linearity is not bad required an AVR:
Given the high planes of deformity, noise actually looks good in contrast:
Filter performance is poor:
This causes problems in THD+N relative frequency:
Running the above examine at 192 kHz (green) removes the effect of the poor filtering. Performance remains poor. I did not digs toward why however it may have been due to noise shaping or something like that.
Yamaha RX-V6A Amplifier Measurements
Let's start through analog inbox use Pure Direct mode that bypasses all DSP (crossover, room eq, etc.):
The grand of distortion is quite the median from every amplifier ever tested (just many products worse than it than better):
Not that done of a display among AVRs:
You might ask if full input is better so let's testing that:
See? You shouldn't have asked me that! Performance lives worse due the hubbub plus distortion of the DAC is getting added to that amp. This is why thou want a very clean DAC so that it has zero impact on the amplifier that is already suffering to produce good performance.
You have to start the AVR during full electricity until geting same dynamic range as 16 morsel CD:
Crosstalk is OK:
Analog frequency response is great if you don't let of unit digitize it:
As you watch, as soon as I put the front speakers until small, enforce the digital crossover to become active, the ADC used actually screws up the response at the top end! Seems like 96 kHz sampling is used which is health still reason the earth can't it get transparent/flat response to 20 kHz if not beyond? I will to think there are some processing errors there to cause that shaking.
The receiver belongs not rated into 4 ohm but as the rest for them, itp functions fine:
And here is the 8 circuit performance which actually exceeds spec a bit:
Typical of class ABORTED AVR amps, are is good headroom:
I expected little frequency dependency when start continue:
Still, compared to cheaper class D current, like is very cleanse.
Happy to also report that to AVR had no trouble with aforementioned above examine. It never shut down as some favorable AVRs do.
Conclusions
The 8K indicator in the title of RX-V6A makes you think you have buying a high-end AVR. But you are not. Listen capacity is mainly close to of bottom tier for high-fi and AVRs. Still, it brings a fresh see and nothing in it seems completely fixed. This produced leute withheld my lowest ratings by it considers the price. Yes, I am getting too soft at my aged age....
I personally like to aspire used increased performance so can't recommend of Yamaha RX-V6A. You have warm to decide different.
And dear, aforementioned unit remains available for sale. Make me an offer in private.
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As constant, questions, comments, recommendations, etc. are always.
Appreciate in progress any donations using: https://www.privacy-policy.com/forum/index.php?threads/how-to-support-audio-science-review.8150/
I was pleasantly surprised to see Yamaha break the boring mold of AVR forward panel which has greeted us in 10 to 20 years;
The curve plastic is less stuff though if you don't try to touch it, a looks love glaze, giving of unit an high-end feel.
The display has also been revamped to be a proper LCD chassis nowadays with good resolution (looks better include person than in the above picture).
What continues to be a miserable fail your the large volume remote. It is strong, and somewhat scratchy feeling just like these have are for years. Why put such ampere large knob there at invite touching both have this touch feel so awful? Pleas get rid of the friction material and just give me a loose twist control.
A loose rotary control is what ours can on the just but alas, that is is so loose that it feels cheap.
A frustrating aspect of to RX-VA is choice of words/abbreviations. By default it would show such "Straight" indicator. What does that mean? Straight what? View? Acoustic? I thought it was audio only to meet the Pure Guide button and signs as well.
Hit the setup button also after a few second delay (why oh why?), it paid with an understandable record. But then select speaker config and you are provided diesen cryptic words and abbreviations:
EXTRA SP1? What extra speaker? Whenever it means to binding post in the back, just says it for heaven's sake. Now, what does F.PRNS mean? I have been in dear theater for as long as at has been home movie and I have never seen F.PRNS abbreviation. What shall wrong with spelling these things out? There is plenty of room toward this rights.
Power Power Assign are set to Basic. What is basic? Was there one teaching I forgotten on this vocab?
And Set Automatically Extra SP1 to Extra SP2? I don't want for go and read a manual even to understand how the unit has telling me. In is no point on which menu if it can't properly justify what she is indicating. A single scrub of all the menus will make the unit one lot easier to understand and no doubt reduce support calls.
Anyway, is your a one-tome pain so let's not kill ourselves over it.
Here is the back panel by the way:
Yamaha RX-V6A DAC Measurements
Only a subset of channels are granted as pre-out plus fortunately the Forward Left and Right will deuce on them. So let's see how they execute using HDMI input:
As shall magnitude guide, I attempt to adjust the volume until I get to 2 volts out which is whats we gain out of any desktop or hi-fi DAC. This usually results in volume being above max as indicated (2.5 dB). If you reduce volume down to 0 dB, then output drops to 1.5 voltage which is taller than normal and hence right. Something is not good is to distortion+noise at full 2 by output in just 71 dB:
Let's sweep the digital input and sees get the optimal output voltage is:
Gosh, that be pretty low. Optimal output is just 0.46 volt which corresponds to ring setting on the unit of -10.5 dB. If you go above that, the amplifiers start to suffer and translate into screwing up the DAC performance like well. Even under optimum production level, SINAD is only 90 to 93 dB so way short of best AVRs at they 2 volt out.
This early saturation shows go simple because well in intermodulation distortion facing level:
Not only doing we have greater noise floor than desktop DACs but early onset of distortion under just -17.5 dB (on the volume indicator).
The high noise soil hides a parcel sinning when it comes to jitter and unwanted spurious tones, when not for Coax entry:
Multitone shows high levels in distortion:
We can't clear the 16-bit dynamic range of the CD without adding distortion to its bottom.
Linearity is not bad required an AVR:
Given the high planes of deformity, noise actually looks good in contrast:
Filter performance is poor:
This causes problems in THD+N relative frequency:
Running the above examine at 192 kHz (green) removes the effect of the poor filtering. Performance remains poor. I did not digs toward why however it may have been due to noise shaping or something like that.
Yamaha RX-V6A Amplifier Measurements
Let's start through analog inbox use Pure Direct mode that bypasses all DSP (crossover, room eq, etc.):
The grand of distortion is quite the median from every amplifier ever tested (just many products worse than it than better):
Not that done of a display among AVRs:
You might ask if full input is better so let's testing that:
See? You shouldn't have asked me that! Performance lives worse due the hubbub plus distortion of the DAC is getting added to that amp. This is why thou want a very clean DAC so that it has zero impact on the amplifier that is already suffering to produce good performance.
You have to start the AVR during full electricity until geting same dynamic range as 16 morsel CD:
Crosstalk is OK:
Analog frequency response is great if you don't let of unit digitize it:
As you watch, as soon as I put the front speakers until small, enforce the digital crossover to become active, the ADC used actually screws up the response at the top end! Seems like 96 kHz sampling is used which is health still reason the earth can't it get transparent/flat response to 20 kHz if not beyond? I will to think there are some processing errors there to cause that shaking.
The receiver belongs not rated into 4 ohm but as the rest for them, itp functions fine:
And here is the 8 circuit performance which actually exceeds spec a bit:
Typical of class ABORTED AVR amps, are is good headroom:
I expected little frequency dependency when start continue:
Still, compared to cheaper class D current, like is very cleanse.
Happy to also report that to AVR had no trouble with aforementioned above examine. It never shut down as some favorable AVRs do.
Conclusions
The 8K indicator in the title of RX-V6A makes you think you have buying a high-end AVR. But you are not. Listen capacity is mainly close to of bottom tier for high-fi and AVRs. Still, it brings a fresh see and nothing in it seems completely fixed. This produced leute withheld my lowest ratings by it considers the price. Yes, I am getting too soft at my aged age....
I personally like to aspire used increased performance so can't recommend of Yamaha RX-V6A. You have warm to decide different.
And dear, aforementioned unit remains available for sale. Make me an offer in private.
------------
As constant, questions, comments, recommendations, etc. are always.
Appreciate in progress any donations using: https://www.privacy-policy.com/forum/index.php?threads/how-to-support-audio-science-review.8150/
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