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The best description I have heard of HDMI ARC and passthrough I have heard. I finally understand what they do.

Very good video. I couldn't get the audio/video working on my TV. I knew nothing about ARC until I watched this video and then I got everything set up in 5 minutes.

Dom't forget to tell them to go into the options set up and turn on the sound enhancer. Makes a huge improvement on the sound.

Thanks for the in depth content. I didn't know there was a dedicated HDMI/ARC connection on the TV. I struggled with this quite a bit. Thanks for making this simple for me!

bought the same receiver, happy with it as it replaced an onkyo, it runs way cooler than my onkyo or old sony, even when pushed , recommend you leave the 6 to 8 ohm selector at 8 ohms as turning it to 6 ohms seems to limit current at the top end , even tho im running 6 ohm speakers ,its way more dynamic on the 8 ohm setting from my experience with this unit so far, and it blows my buddys bose {blows} system away for a quarter of the price in sound and power..

Good stuff. I think the word 'budget' reciever can sometimes be misinterpreted as poor quality. I bought the new 2020 yamaha v4x reciever. It seems to me that when you buy non 'budget' more expensive ones you are mainly paying for many surplus to requirements options and gadgets which you may not require or be interested in for example..dolby atmos with gazillions of speaker options . I.just wanted 5.1 for music and movies and my choice has blown my mind. You get dts , dolby digital pro logic movies/ music or stereo etc . Horses for courses I suppose. Remember folks that budget doesent necessarily mean crap it just means it has less stuff on the back..maybe less power some might say..but how much power does one require in an average living space? It has no problem powering my 8ohm mission floor standing speakers, centre, surrounds and my Bowers and Wilkins sub woofer ..and by the way the v4 has a second sub input for hooking up that second sub to a second input if you so wish. Bottom end is great as are mid and high frequencies. There's graphic equalizer for 5 channels indiv iduallly adjustable. On the back it has 5 HDMI inputs for sound and video signals with one being e arc, 3 analog rca audio inputs, a coaxial and optical in. It doesn't have a Phono input. But I don't need it. The big brother v6 does. V4 also has wi fi, bluetooth music cast usb input on front.just tons of great stuff. Tailor to your requirements. You can't go wrong with Yamaha!

Excellent explanations. I learned a thing or two. Thanks :-)

Thanks for the video. I was planning on getting the RX-V6A, but with all the HDMI 2.1 issues, I feel like I can buy the V385 as a mid-step until everything gets ironed out in the future years.

4:14 time mark: "And one other note to keep in mind, make sure none of these cables are touching any other cable. That is extremely important." For the AV neophyte, this means ensuring that EXPOSED cables (the conducting wires) do not touch each other. For extremely sensitive audiophiles, isolating any cable contact may be desirable. However, for the average consumer, touching insulated wires together will have little effect on the listener experience.

great demo. You answered all my questions!

Bought one recently. So far notice two problems: 1. AVR have to turn on and off, then only passthrough will work. 2. If power loss, DSP setting will lost and back to default .

I just got one and this helped me a lot. Thanks

Thanks for the review, but at over 15 minutes, you could've shown the YPAO setup, as well as the sub settings for speakers and sound options.

Bra I was just lost on how to pair my phone thank you so much 👍🏿👍🏿

Thank you for sharing this information!

Really great job with the in depth review. Thank you.

Great video! I just bought this receiver and wanted to know the best audio/video settings. There seem to be a bunch of options...Straight/Direct, a bunch of different "program" modes (standard, 2 channel, 5 channel, movie mode, drama, etc). I'd like to set it once and forget it. Also, I want my TV to do the processing (Sony X950H) where is that setting? Last, there's a huge differnce in volume when switching between Apple TV 4K and the DVR. Thoughts? Thanks!

Great price for this receiver! It can do all the essentials for less than $300!

Very informative video on various features of this receiver!!

Very nice men but c'mon, you got a receiver with speakers and use a bluetooth headphones? The Switch isn't even on 5.1, only 2.1 are light up on the screen, put a movie with Dolby or DTS to test properly the 5.1

Good video.I have the older version of this model Yamaha rx-v379 its nice to see the upgrades on this model no spring clips for the center and surround and you can change speaker impedance.

Learned a lot, I’m not by means a tech 61 yr old women, .actually a best video, although I did plug in my subwoofer and didn’t get any sound, I do see a cable not attached with a yellow and red end attached to nothing , just sitting behind the subwoofer and behind the receiver, but not plugged in either end, any help for me? Everything else working fine ty

Thanks, I learned a lot from you.

This was so helpful thank you so much.

Does anyone have experience of Yamaha's virtual headphone surround 'Silent Cinema'. I use headphones just as much as speakers for movies.

I have an old TEAC that needs replacing. This was very informative. I'm sold, as it has all the features I need. Thanks. Oh, can I set this up for 3.0 channel?

Perfect timing vid! I just got mine yesterday! I bought it strictly for my laptop. I'm using the headphone out but I read your comment stating that I could use the HDMI out. I'll definitely be trying that out. I have a question (hoping you can answer it). In the description it states it has the ability to Bi-Amp the front speakers. What does that mean? The Yamaha will be pushing 2 Polk T50's, 2 Sony Bookshelves, a Sony sub (powered obviously) and still debating on the center channel (I might use the Sony tower since I have a brand new one just sitting there)

Where i work uses one of these for our in store speakers im just trying to learn how to use it with my phone for music and change its settings back before i leave lol.

The wireless headphones that I have are Sony and they connect to the red and white audio/video on the back of the receiver. The base that the headphones get recharged in are plugged into a wall ac current. I had them hooked up before that my wife could hear the tv through the tv speakers at her low volume and I could hear through the Sony headphones that run through the receiver, so that is listening to both at the same time.

Very nice video, thanks.

very well explained

Question, can I use a splitter on the subwoofer pre out to add a total of 2 subwoofers?

Great video. Thanks! Just one question: using a bluetooth headset, do you notice any lag between the speakers and the headphones? I am looking for a solution for my wife to use headphones while I prefer to listen to speakers at the same time. I have an RX-V381 that doesn't send bluetooth but I may upgrade to the 385. Cheers.

Quick question. Hooked up my receiver last night. It is awesome with my Pioneer SP-FS52 standup speakers. My question is: Can the receiver be synced so that when I turn on my tv with my android box on, the receiver turns on as well or vis-a-versa, if I turn the receiver is turned on my tv and android box comes on? I do have it connected with an ARC connect and my tv is set with CED on. TIA

Nice video, but I see your Switch was not set-up properly. Currently I am looking for a 5.1 HDMI AV receiver that it can process lpcm through HDMI as the Switch doesn't support Dolby or DTS and you have to set-it up as auto from the Switch to pick up the 5 speakers and the subwoofer.

Great video! Any way to get on screen display menu while connected to TV over HDMI? It works on passthrough connections

THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR VIDEO

I bought a pre amp so I can use my turntable with this amp. Where can I plug it into the amp? Yamaha says plug it into the red & white connectors like CD. This amp has all video type connectors. Thanks for your help.

What about labelling the HDMI inputs to their various sources?? And to setup the speakers configurations. I thought this was a full setup????

Video muy útil. Gracias, amigo.

Nice review. I saw that it pairs to a Bluetooth headphone. What about 2 BT headphones at the same time, so 2 people can listen with different headphones together? Is it capable, or it can transit to only one BT headset at a time?

Thanx for the review. I just got bose acoustimass 5 series v, am not sure if I can use this reciever to power the speakers or it would be to much

Hi landpet many thanks for this video. I have my guitar interface which has left and right RCA connection. do you think it be possible to put them into the Av2 or Av3 inputs and I would still receive sound? . I was hoping to buy this today until I noticed there is no dedicated left and right RCA only places to connect. only under the AV2 or 3. many thanks

I bought this AV last year and only connected the speakers since then. Using the tuner whenever. It often seems to loose the FM signal and I can not figure out why. Read something about it not being properly earthed but I dont know about that ... I dont see any wiring specific for that. I was thinking maybe the stereo signal is bad around here ... any thoughts? I am really not very technical enclined ...

I just bought one online as an upgrade from my old Yamaha receiver. I read you should use a tripod or mic stand with the mic. How easy was it using the YPAO and did you get good results?

, is AUX and hdmi ARC mode can use at the same time? We use HDMI ARC to our Amplifier, and AUX to our mixer

My personal opinion the device is realy great. But be careful with the autostanby option. It elicits some paranoid feelings after the reciever goes turned off without your command. Also make sure nothing is influencing your device from outside as, for example, the moronic neighbour with the IR or BT remote control in his sweaty hands. Sound impressions - even better than with the predecessor- YAMAHA rx-v463 model. Settings usability is great! Especially through the HDMI out port. Manual reference support is more than enough to set it up and find information on every tiny button and hidden LED on the front panel. Just click the link and download the manual corresponded. There is one thing I whant to figure out - the min AC voltage the receiver is able to work at. It has the linear power supply with the big transormer and it shouldn't realy work with the voltage less than 200 Volts. Active PFC is not suplemented for the audio devices as the pulse control causes a lot of sound distortion and noise. And I curious what voltage range is viable for the normal device operation. One more detail has impressed me - the sound quality from the USB source when I began listening to some mp3 (from my collection). Sound I heard was clean and ringy, full of details and subdetails with the deap bass. I had much less MP3 sound quality with my old aforementioned receiver.

Is possible to connect an external amplifier to this receiver and pass through the audio signal? Not using the receiver as an amp basically. Hooking up speakers to the amplifier.

Nice video

Found I could only get sound from my old HD Toshiba DVD/cd with optical cable. I want to connect a turntable, how do I do that with the 385? I have a RXV 661 that has a pre amp so I could use it if I had to.

My tv only works through the hdmi input 1 from my cable box even though its labeled bd/dvd just Incase anyone else was having issues

excellent video!!! i have one questiont tho, hoping you can answer it. i want to buy this, ill have to use the HDMI arc to the tv, but I want to use a soundbar that requires a HDMI input, I do see here that the 4 regular HDMI ports support ARC, can any of these 4 ports be used to send the sound signal from the receiver to the soundbar?? i think so just wanted to confirm

Ok thx for the video. So can I hook up my Spotify on my phone via bluetooth to this device, then send the audio out to my wireless sony xm4 headphones? Can I do it at the same time?

Hi can i connect bose acousmastics 5 series v speaker to the section of home theatre behind yahama Rx 385 and can i add more speakers

This is very helpful thank you for sharing. Did you never try to connect this device to amplifier and microphone for karaoke? I brought this type of receiver recently and seems no output for microphone or ether output for amplifier. A advise will help so much. Thank you.

Awesome

With ARC, does your tv remote control the receiver?

Hello, I got an old pair of Triangle speakers from my dad (was hes old home cinema) but the amp was completely broken and I was looking for a new AVR with bluetooth. My speakers are 80W RMS and 150W peak at 4 Ohms. I see this AVR can output for 6 and 8 Ohms but not 4, do you think it is an issue hence not recommend this AVR for me ? If yes do you have any AVR reference within this price range I could buy for my impedance? Also very great review, keep up the good work

I'm still using this receiver but the ARC HDMI doesnt have sound coming out anymore. Any idea why? Maybe it's burned.

do you need another hdmi to hook up your switch to the tv so the picture can display on the tv? or do you only need one to plug into the receiver?

Do you know which smart TV could connect to this wirelessly? Airplay works great from computer but can't get my Samsung TV to connect.

Do you have any idea how to connect a Niles SSVC6 speaker selector to this unit? Thanks for the demonstration

Sir, i have 6 speakers, 4 tower speakers, 1 center speaker & 1 subwoofer..are there any ways i can install my subwoofer speaker using this yamaha av?

You didn't say how to get to the menu on your TV. The stereo menu.

I purchased a used Yamaha RX-V575 receiver and I cannot get any sound. I set up the speakers for a 5.1 configuration and set up another pair of speakers through zone B. I am not getting any sound through zone A or B. Any idea what I might be doing wrong. I don't think it is the receiver because it is in really good condition. I'm sure it is the user (me). Ha ha.

Does the remote control for this receiver control other devices such as a TV or DVD player?

Hi there, many thanks for your explanation on using this receiver, some I understood and some I didn't :-), let me start off by telling you I am an old guy that doesn't really understand electronics/sound set-up etc.. I followed the instructions to connect this unit to my LG smart TV, so arc to arc for the HDMI cable and connected the speaker wires (which have been on an old Kenwood receiver - no Arc ) Turned it on and firstly tried the FM station, no sound, then the TV - no sound. I tried the "set up" button and I get to speakers and a request to configure, but no instructions in the user manual on how to configure. I noticed you have instruction on your TV, how do I get this on my TV? Or is an LG different.. BTW - I am using KZfaq TV - not sure if this makes a difference. Your help would be appreciated..

So with the Bluetooth instructions, I can connect to the TV without HDMI, correct?

can you individually control 2 outputs for the speaker?? .... like zones, i'm thinking to use this one unit for cafe..

Do you also need to connect the device to the tv after conecting to the reciver?

Will the AV1, 2 and 3 output to tv through the HDMI ARC? Or must I use RCA to HDMI converter?

Does this receiver come with 5 band equalizer?

Can you listen with Bluetooth headphones with the speakers off? I can get the headphones working but can't seem to disable the speakers.

In my previous receiver you had to set in the menu which HDMI input to use for the pass through. I cannot find such a setting on the Sony receiver. How do you set the receiver to use a specific HDMI port as the pass through port. For example, I have a BluRay on HDMI 2 and a TiVO on HDMI 3. When the receiver is off, I want the TiVO (HDMI 3) signal to be passed through to the TV. Can the receiver use any of its HDMI inputs as a pass through? Does it pass through whatever HDMI input is active?

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if you were using this with a pc, would you still plug the hdmi/arc straight into the tv? or would you use a different connection and plug straight into the pc?

Im a newbie at sound systems. Can this work with my 6 ohms SP-SF52 pioneer tower speakers? I noticed this is an 8 ohms receiver. Thanks.

I been thinking about getting this receiver and paint it with my Klipsch Reference Cinema Dolby Atmos 5.1.4 System will this effect the dolby atmos ??

Does this receiver allow you to adjust the crossover for the front, center, and surround separately? Thx.

Can I use HDMI ARC for audio and it not turn the reciver on and off every time I power my tv on/off I don't wanna use my receiver all the time but I want HD sound for when I do

The one thing I cannot find ANYWHWERE is how to make the Yamaha remote control turn my TV on/off. It's an older HD DLP (and it's awesome) but has none of the ARC stuff or whatever it is called. I am stunned this receiver's remote seems to have ZERO universal remote controlling capabilities. Quite disappointing. Great receiver, but the remote is circa 1985.

I just got an rxv383. I have the Klipsh reference theatre 5.1. The receiver has 2 speaker connections like yours for left and right. The center and right surround and left surround has the spring loaded buttons. Those 3 speakers do not work. I bought receiver off Ebay so it has no instructions. How do I get those to work? Subwoofer doesn't work either but I may not have the right cable for it

I set this up and I don’t have any sound coming through my tv anymore. Help?

Can headphones be used on this?

Hi, sorry, can you kindly explain to me how to connect this receiver in 4.1 setup? Please, I don't know how to do it.

Can I use 120w 8ohm spkrs and 40w 8 ohm surround spkrs with subwoofer with this amp?

So this av supply 70watt to each speaker? So the speaker also must below 70watt?

I've been able to get my PlayStation to connect to the receiver when I use Input 1 (ARC specific input) on my TV but when I want to use my smart TV for applications like Netflix I cannot get audio through the receiver. I've tried all of the input options. Nothing else is plugged into the receiver besides the ARC HDMI and the single HDMI for the PS. The only thing plugged into the TV is the single ARC HDMI. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

I want to play Minecraft but Bluetooth my music at the same time . How do I do that ?

This can now do 4k 120 hz for next gen consoles ???

I plan on buying one can this be connected through a desktop with the hdmi out from the pc into the receiver and hdmi out from the receiver into my monitor.

Is it possible if I want to use this receiver as a stereo amp?...I currently have only two speakers.

Can not find any info as to what size male banana plugs for speaker wire connection

What if none of my hdmi ports on my tv are labeled as arc? Will it still output all sounds to the receiver

Hi mate.. is optical better then hdmi.. sound wise…?

Can you adjust gain and/or distance for each channel?

I can’t connect to the Karaoke thought

I ask sir , i have a yamaha rxv385 ,how to use it to the microphne, so i can use to sing along, thanks

Hi, the receiver subwoofer pre out to the active subwoofer not working, NO sound. Why?