Customer Ratings & Reviews

Recently purchased a new OLED TV and replaced a 30 yr old Yamaha receiver that lacked the necessary inputs. The Yamaha RX-V6 is a great receiver so far. Setup was easy, taking less than 45 minutes including the firmware update. Picture and sound quality are excellent. Lots of settings available, but requires some time to navigate through them the first time. Good value for the price. Hope it has the same lifetime as the last receiver.

I replaced a failed Denon Receiver with this Yamaha a couple of weeks ago. The setup was pretty strait forward. I did have to reference the manual to determine which speaker terminals for a 5.1.2 setup as they are different than the Denon. One thing to note is the music cast app is a must. You can control all the settings right from the app some settings I had difficulty finding through the remote. The ARC and hdmi-cec have a couple of issues changing inputs randomly i did not see on the denon. It could be an issue with my TV. I can quickly switch back on app. This is just the arc audio being used instead of chose input. I was only able to get dobly atoms to display on the receiver through a setting in the app as well. The three 2.1 120hz ports work as advertise, however you do have to enable this on each port through the hdmi settings menu.

An upgrade from my last Yamaha receiver after 11 years. Nothing else changed in my home theater configuration other than a tv as well (all speakers and wiring remained consistent) and wow what an upgrade on the sound experience. Easy to set up, the MusicCast app is a nice bonus to have. This is my 3rd Yamaha received in 30 years and I couldn’t think of considering any other brand.

I purchased this Yamaha receiver after my Onkyo had given up the ghost. First impressions were very good. I love the sleek modern and simplistic design that is lacking in pretty much all other receivers (especially in this price range). Feature wise, this thing is about average. It has many of the things you would come to expect from a receiver in 2020 (music streaming over wifi, bluetooth, 4K HDR, etc) but it is lacking in a few departments. Firstly, the amplifier section is average. At this price I was expecting it to perform a little better. My out going Onkyo had a slight advantage in sound even though it was only half the price of this unit. Secondly, there is no separate Subwoofer crossover control for the LFE channel. I always like to set my sub crossover around 80Hz as it blends nicely with my Klipsch towers. I believe the sub crossover is set depending on the crossover settings for your front speakers (but there is no way to tell and no way to see what it is set to by the unit). Finally, I have a lot of issues with ARC/eARC. The receiver has trouble with the HDMI handshake with my Samsung QLED TV. Sometime I can get the ARC to work and sometime it refuses to. I have to unplug both the TV and the Receiver a few times before it starts working again. I'm not sure if this is isolated to my TV/Receiver combination but I did not have this issue with my Onkyo. Overall, I am satisfied with my purchase. Movies and Music sound great (although it could be better with a higher end Denon) and the design and features are adequate at this price. I'm hoping future firmware updates don't just bring HDMI 2.1 with 8K/4K@120Hz but also bring more features and overall improvements.

Sound is great, setup was smooth and it integrated with other components nearly seamlessly. Not wild about the app which seems awkward to navigate. I DO love the easy to read and use the front panel. Finally, the most important knob - the VOLUME- is biggest and front and center…never to be confused with other hard to read controls.

The RX-V6A has been very good so far. It is difficult to set up due to the lack of a manual, but that is par for the course these days on most electronics. The quick set up guide was easy, but knowing what each option means in more detailed set up requires google. The system has all the power I need. The only problem is that if the system is on for an extended time period, 4 or more hours, it will suddently make the speakers act like they have been blown out. A simple shut down and turn back on clears this up. This is the only reason I didn't give a 5 star review.

Overall great receiver. I loved the sound from this receiver but I had to return it as most 2020's receivers have a faulty chipset and cannot manage the most recent HDMI format for next gen gaming consoles. I also needed to be able to display my content onto a TV and a videoprojector but this receiver comes with only one HDMI output. I tried all kind of HDMI splitters and switches... impossible to make it work. I switched for a Denon and the Yamaha add a way better sound. If you don't need 8k and you only need one HDMI output, this is a great receiver. Otherwise, you'll need something else or wait 2021's units if you can.

We liked it so much we bought two!Everything works great! Very easy to connect DVD player, Set Top Box, Tivo, Game Console! Music Cast is also GREAT and plays whatever you want anywhere you have speakers from just about any platform. These replaced the two Yamaha RX-2065s that were fried from a lightning strike at our home. Great sound and Quality for the money we paid $599.00 for the first one when we went back to BestBuy get a second one they were sold out and when they were available again they were $649.00 The only thing we don't like is the display is way too small!!

Quality seems great so far. Beautiful design and the audio is better to my previous Onkyo. Bought to use along with my 4K Samsung TV at 120hz when using the Xbox series X. Unfortunately, this is not yet available and it’s supposed to be available on a later date with an update.

I bought this to replace a 12-year-old Denon receiver that I was pretty happy with, but I wanted a receiver with a phono pre-amp and line in, which few receivers had 12 years ago. I didn't expect the dramatic improvement in sound that the Yamaha offers. I mainly use it to listen to classical and jazz recordings, some recent SACDs, but most are older CDs and LPs, plus a few mp3s and even old cassettes. This receiver has settings appropriate for any of these sources. I am especially impressed with the "enhancement" setting which dramatically improves mp3s and cassettes that had compressed frequency range. But it is also very impressive with high end recordings. With SACDs I use the "pure direct" setting which provides a highly accurate reproduction of the original recording. I don't use this receiver much for movies and videos, but it has done a wonderful job with streaming movies in 4k and 5.1 or 5.1.2 sound. As many online reviews have concluded, you have to pay a lot more to get anything better than this receiver. The only possible drawback I can think of is that this is a very complicated piece of equipment with so many options and settings that are not always easy to figure out. In order to fully understand them, you really need the complete manual, which is only available online. The brief quick-start guide that comes with the receiver hardly explains any of the options. That means that even a month after getting this receiver, I still refer to the nearly 400-page manual several times a week to refresh my memory as to what a given setting actually does.

I've had this for awhile so I wanted to get a few miles on it before reviewing. I'll start with the negatives and some of them may be my misunderstanding of the online manual. When using eArc with my Sony TV I do get some audio cutting out when using Sony's onboard apps. I don't know if it's the tv or the receiver. I will be hooking up an optical audio cable soon but I usually use my Firestick over the tv's apps. I have added Atmos speakers to my ceiling and they sound awesome but since adding the Atmos speakers I have not been able to bi-amp my front speakers properly. When I do the sound level is almost half on the bi-amped speakers. Again, could be a setting issue on my part but I tried several ( I guess I need to get with Yamaha support). I hate the remote. The old style remote was much more user friendly. Even programming this remote is more of a pain then the one on the less expensive Yamaha receiver I returned for this one. To confirm I am getting an Atmos signal I have to go into the options button on the remote ( which does report accurately) but Atmos never shows up on the receivers front display. Now the good. I have a middle of the road system. I think it sounds amazing when watching movies or a live football game. Love it! There is plenty of power to drive my speakers and I like the appearance of the receiver. Take your time with the settings because this thing has way more control settings then what I even really know what to do with. It can be a bit intimidating for some people. I mess with the settings a little each weekend and still discover new options. I don't have a game console connected to it but I do have Bluray and a Fire Stick and they play well with the receiver. You do have to use your Spotify phone app to play it on the receiver. It works great but I would have rather had the app built in. I have not had any major issues as some of the other reviewers have noted. I did have to do a firmware update via USB but it went smoothly.

Really good pushes power does what it supposed to do pair with music cast app opens a wide range of settings for your music or home theater

Massive improvement over my previous receiver. Went with this product due to Yamaha’s reputation and it seemed pretty ‘future proof’. Awesome design and features. Tons of potential, the sound is so, so good!!! You will not be disappointed with this unit at all.

It's not perfect but its a pretty decent AV receiver. It was time to replace my old Yamaha audio receiver which finally gave up the ghost, the power section had issues and kept turning off. So I wanted to get a replacement that handled HDMI switching which my old one did not do and settled on this one. First thing I noticed out of the box was how much lighter in weight this one was compared to my old receiver. I don't view this as a plus though . I see that as lesser power driving capabilities but I'm going to assume all the brands are lightening up in this area unless you want to go real high end of the scale. I'd consider this one in the mid range of the Yamaha line. It seems plenty loud enough but all the sound fields seem a little flat and tinny to me but I haven't adjusted any of the built in eq settings yet. I'm hoping I can tweak them a little more to my liking yet. It only has one optical digital input which is a con for me but I made it work. I'd like to see at least one more. I used that 1 optical input as the sound feed from my TV for the rare times I use the antenna signal from the TV tuner or for anything I would input directly to the TV inputs. By doing this I was forced to use an analog audio input from my 400 disc CD jukebox, yes I still occasionally listen to Cd's,so a second optical input would have been very nice for that. The setup menus I felt were ok, nothing pretty to look at but functional. A few settings are not very clear in what they do unless you dig into the manual so a note on the screen would be helpful on a few of these settings. The full manual has to be downloaded online, no paper copy, not a surprise these days. My biggest issue ,which caused a few days of hair pulling is related to the HDMI inputs 1-3 on the receiver. My ATT Uverse DVR set-top box was initially connected to HDMI input 1. EVERY time the system was powered up the uverse box would soft reset itself and you had to wait for it several minutes to come back up again. I tried changing cables, forcing a hard reset of the Uverse stb so it reloaded its firmware. I tried turning off the HDMI control and ARC functions of the Yamaha receiver ,all were no help. I was thinking it was just a coincidence and maybe the box had just failed and was about to call ATT for a replacement. I tried one last thing. I moved the cable to HDMI input 4 on the Yamaha and voila , it worked normally. I'm not sure what is different about the HDMI inputs 1-3 on the receiver, I have to dig into the manual to see what it says, but those 3 inputs are grouped separately on the back of the receiver. But one thing is certain, ATT Uverse boxes do not play nice with them. For now I don't have anything connected to those 3 inputs.

I got this because I wanted something future proof and not super expensive. This seemed to check those boxes. I was coming from an old sony receiver and wanted something with atmos and hdmi 2.1. overall this has been a good receiver. As soon as you connect to internet you have a update. Setting up was easy enough. Sounds has been real good. The remote is just alright. A couple hiccups I had were it was playing atmos fine and then it just stopped. The source it was playing from support atmos. I ended up resetting the receiver and it took care of that issue. I also had an issue when using one of the scene buttons when you click it the device to that hdmi would just go blank. Again after a reset it fixed that. I am just waiting on the new update to unlock all the hdmi 2.1 features. Overall though this is a really solid receiver under 700 dollars.

Our old Yamaha was dying and we did not realize how much sound and function we had lost. With the new one OMG ! The sound is awesome. Set up was a breeze. We are ecstatic!

I have been using an old cheep receiver and going to this was amazing. I have 4 klipsch r51m's that never really did anything with the old system. As soon as I got them hooked up I noticed I huge difference. The klipsch started to show its range. The old system made them really flat and kind of a chore to listen to. Not with the yamaha. Very pleasant even for long periods. I did buy this based off others reviews about how well it does with music. The huge multi channel system isn't the main thing I wanted but happy with what I can do with it. Haven't tested movies much because I don't have the best setup to judge that. I did try and run into issues that are known. I have an lg cx and ps5. I am running the ps5 to the TV and sending audio to the receiver though arc. No problems so far. If it drops the arc connection here and there I will not be mad though. I love the sound that much. One of the few cons may be that the buttons on the receiver are hard to use and navigate. I'm not to sure if you can change the station without the remote or phone on the radio.

Sound from this thing is great. Setup was extremely easy and integrated into existing system seamlessly and allowed me to do away with some of the many remotes littering my coffee table once setup was done

I've been a 20-year Sony receiver fan, so i was concerned when switching to Yamaha. But the reviews were correct: this is a better-sounding receiver! My speakers never sounded this good. And the Dolby Atmos speakers now fill the sound field completely. Setup was straight forward, but the owners manual is lacking in detail.

Easy setup, great sound, excellent price particularly for one that includes phono jacks and ground to operate your old school turntable. Would definitely recommend to a friend.