Super Stable Chassis design

High Sound Quality

Preamplifier Stage

New Pure Direct for lossless audio formats also

Pure Ground DAC Concept

High quality preamplifier block design

Low-Jitter PLL and Digital Clock Circuits

High quality headphone amplifier circuit

Power Amplifier Stage

All-Channel Current Feedback Circuit

Hybrid Low Noise Power Supply

Symmetrical Layout and New Power Circuit Layout

Low-impedance, minimum loop print pattern

Thick aluminum panels and large, heavy feet

High Picture Quality

Latest HDMI 1.3a specification supports Deep Color (30/36 bit) transmission, xvYCC color space, 120Hz and 24Hz Refresh Rates and Auto Lip-

Sync compensation

Analog and HDMI digital video signal upscaling to Full HD 1080p and down-scaling to 480p format

Analog video to HDMI digital video upconversion capability

4 Component Video in and 2 monitor outs

Surround Realism

New CINEMA DSP HD3 creates lush, dense, accurate sound field

THX Ultra2 Plus surround modes

Improved Compressed Music Enhancer

Adaptive DRC (Dynamic Range Control) and DSP effect level controlling capability

SILENT CINEMA and Virtual CINEMA DSP

Advanced Features

Network Receiver Capabilities

Network port to connect a PC and Yamaha MCX-2000 or access the Internet

Radio via LAN

Compatible with Windows Vista & Windows Media Player 11 as well as

Windows Media Connect

PlaysForSure network device support

2 USB ports (1 on front, 1 on rear) to connect USB memory devices or portable audio players

Supports MTP devices and Mass Storage Class devices

Supports 500mA power from USB port

Supports USB HDD (FAT32 format, up to 2TB)

iPod compatibility via optional Yamaha Universal Dock YDS-10

Advanced YPAO (Yamaha Parametric Room Acoustic Optimizer) for automatic speaker setup

Multiple point measurement feature for multiple listening positions

Specialized parametric equalizer for standing wave reduction

Speaker angle measurement feature for optimized CINEMA DSP

YPAO Easy Starter

HD Radio digital broadcast reception capability

XM ready with XM HD Surround powered by Neural-THX Surround Decoder

Multiple Subwoofer connection capability

6 or 8-channel additional input jacks for discrete multi-channel inputs

10 System Memories for Main Zone and 4 System Memories for other each Zone

GUI on-screen display of six languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Russian and Japanese

Versatile Zone Control

Intelligent assignable amplifiers: bi-amping and multi-zone control (Zone 2/Zone 3/Zone 4)

Preamplifier Mode

Zone 2 video output (component and composite) with OSD capability Zone 2 digital audio output (coaxial)

Party Mode

Display of song data and radio information on zone OSDs

Sleep timer and mute level for all zones

Zone Mono

Flexible and assignable dual +12V trigger outs