A:AnswerThe receiver expects five passive speakers and a powered sub. If that is what you have you are good. If the set came with extra processing units, amplifiers and decoders those will be of no use to you.
A:AnswerThis has been asked and answered. Under all questions do a key word search on "harmonic distortion" and "watts". I believe it was .09 and 70 W per channel.
A:AnswerThe Yamaha V385 is rated 70W per front L/R channel at 20Hz-20KHz 0.09% THD into 8 ohms (US/Canada specs). It is also rated 85W per channel (each of all 5 channels) at 1KHz and 0.9% THD. There are some higher ratings at terrible distortion levels, such as 145W at 1KHz into 6 ohms at 10% THD.
I would not plan to go over about 50W per channel to have decent sound and receiver longevity, but that should be plenty loud enough for a home theatre system with reasonably efficient speakers and a separate subwoofer or two. If you are having a large party and want club level volume you need a whole other level of equipment.
The ratings of your speakers are the maximum they can handle. The power drawn depends on the volume level. Of course you can change the balance from front to rear and also the timing (perceived distance).
A:AnswerYour TV would need to have ARC (Audio Return Channel) HDMI. If so, you would connect your computer to one of the AV receiver's HDMI inputs and then connect the ARC output on the reliever to the ARC HDMI on the TV. In this setup no optical cable needed.
A:AnswerI understand. The output is a single outlet located below the four HDMI inputs. It uses a single connection cable, not speaker wire connections. You may need a newer subwoofer with this type of connection option. Hope this helps.
JP
A:AnswerThe short answer would be no. This receiver has two "A/V" inputs that take the old RCA pin-plug cables which you could use for the cassette player and cd for playback only. There is no phono hookup. There are 4 HDMI hookups so the priority is for hooking up new equipment that uses HDMI. You might be better off looking for a gently used older receiver that has more RCA pin-plug connections on the back panel. Also, some higher priced new receivers still have quite a few hookups that can accomodate older equipment. Hope that helps...
