Yamaha RX-V667

90% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Extensive spec, good build and finish ; detailed, atmospheric listen ; fine upscaling

Might seem dispassionate at first ; needs volume to come alive

Impressive across the board

From soup to nuts, we like just about everything we see with the new Yamaha RX-V667 7.2 A/V receiver. I do miss their signature frontpanel orange display found on their older models but that's just a personal preference. Yamaha updated their new 07...

Excellent sound quality ; Six HDMI inputs ; Best-in-class graphical user interface ; Analog video upconversion ; Audio return channel supported ; Standby pass-through ; 7.1 multi-channel analog inputs ; 3D compatible ; Second-zone functionality

Requires dock for iPod/iPhone connectivity ; More expensive than some competitors

Excellent sound quality; six HDMI inputs; best-in-class graphical user interface; analog video upconversion; audio return channel supported; standby pass-through; 7.1 multichannel analog inputs; 3D compatible; second-zone functionality.

Requires $100 dock for iPod/iPhone connectivity; no minijack input; more expensive than some competitors.

Yamaha's RX-V667 is one of the best midrange AV receivers of 2010, with excellent sound quality, a best-in-class user interface, and more connectivity than its competitors, but it may be more AV receiver than you need.

The sound with music is full and smooth yet detailed. The bass is tight and controlled and treble is just right. The sound with movies is excellent and the surround effects are accurate and precise but also do not stick out i.e. the sound from all the...

LCD display not the most informative. Not easy to know what surround format is being received and decoded. Not much else.

The main reason I bought this amp was to replace my perfectly good Pioneer model, but which had no HDMI inputs. So, ease of connectivity was really the major draw. Performance seems quite good, but really needs a decent volume level to become 'alive'...

I was rather disappointed to discover the manual is on CDRom rather than printed form. Might be OK to look up an individual aspect but really I detest CDRoms and ended up printing it out! These amps are so complex now [if you want to take full...

I had a sony amp before the yamaha and what a difference to the depth of the soundstage, but for me there was one improvement which was night and day ahead of my previous amp and that was the quality of music. I've always been more a movie fan but...

For me i haven't come across any bad points yet.