Yamaha HTR-6140BL 525 Watt 5.1-Channel Home Theater Receiver

I read the other reviews before purchasing. The only negative was a complicated setup and manual. They were right! But after the setup it works great! I also saved a lot of money by buying a demo model and their shipping and delivery time was great too. I have an older HDTV so the HDMI was useless, but I figured out a way with my existing optic cables by changing the input names to allow the video to go through the optic outputs.

Since the time of my review, there are only two reviews, a 5 star and a 2 star, the 2 star being based on a supposed bad remote and manual. I thought I had to set things straight. I've owned many other brand receivers and both Yamahas I've owned are great. The sound quality is excellent and the only problem I might see with someone not liking the manual is that Yamaha has so many features and options it might scare away the type of person that likes to use it out of the box without barely any set up. As for the remote I see no problem with it... it's attractive, functional, all features on it work so I don't understand what's not to like. Sound quality and construction of the unit are also superior. After having other receivers in the past that burnt due to overheating and had a dry, radio like sound, I think I'll stick with Yamaha from now on. Their "music enhancement" setting makes all sound including voice sound so incredibly warm and rich that I use this setting for everything and prefer it to any other setting. Yamaha receivers are also extremely low distortion. You will be very plesantly surprised with this receiver as long as you can follow instrucions and read a manual, even if you don't like doing this, the pay-off is worth the initial effort.

The quality of the HTR-6140 is great. Features good. Operation of the remote is awkward, not intuitive. The only thing worse than the opeartion of the remote is the manual. It is absolutely awful.