Excellent receiver with few unnessecary bells and whistles
Written: Dec 08 '00
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Pros: Good clean sound, excellent build quality
Cons: none
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| Cosine's Full Review: Yamaha RX-V590 |
My roommate gave me this receiver when he couldn't make the rent and I've been pretty die hard on Yamaha ever since. The 590 is great balance of features vs price. With the exception of the useless extra DSP(for those who don't know these are the stupid sound effects you can turn on to make it sound like the music/movie is coming from a concert hall or a church or whatever) modes, which Yamaha kind of has to include seeing as they pretty much invented the idea, there is very little on this received that I don't use in day to day operations. This is a good sign that you haven't paid for options you don't need.
Yamaha's have always featured some of the cleanest amplifier sections of any of the mid-priced Japanese receivers and this is evident on the 590. Granted most receivers sound pretty similar, I was lucky enough to get a cheance to listen to several Yamaha receivers from this line in a store against several other companies and could pick out the Yamaha products by sound alone time after time. As well I used to have this stereo in the same room as a roomates Sony system and we did a head to head between the two, just on the sound itself everyone agreed the Yamaha was the better receiver. It also ran considerably cooler.
The remote control, while quite large, is well laid out and has an excellent learning system, I have trained it to control every other device in my (mostly non Yamaha) home theatre setup.
I've had the 590 for a few years now and will soon have to replace it with a Dolby Digital receiver, if not for having to keep up with the Jones' I get the feeling this receiver could run forever.
Recommended:
Yes
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Cosine
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