Wednesday, 3 August 2011

Yamaha YSP-800 82-Watt Digital Sound Projector, Black


Digital sound projector with built-in 82-watt digital amplifier for producing full-bodied multichannel sound

Projects sound beams from 23 integrated speaker drivers at optically diverse angles to create surround sound effect

Slim, contemporary chassis mounts on wall or sits near TV while blending seamlessly with flat-panel monitor styles

Digital amp offers Dolby Digital, DTS, Pro Logic II, and DTS Neo:6 decoding and 3 Cinema DSP programs

Attractive black finish; measures 31.5 x 6 x 4.5 inches (W x H x D); 2-year warranty



This review is from: Yamaha YSP-800 82-Watt Digital Sound Projector, BlackThis unit is simply amazing! I first heard the original YSP-1 in December 2005 in a professional sound room at a local hi-end audio store. During the demo, the sound was actually coming from behind and next to me! I was in wonder. The clarity was amazing. The only thing that kept me from buying right then and there was the price tag of $1500. So when I saw the new models online, and a price tag of nearly half the original (I actually got mine for less than half :o) I just had to put it on my list. And this one sounds even better!Plus, no wires is key! And the look is simple elegance. Plus, to see the look on a friend's face when he hears the surround sound and can't find any speakers back there is priceless! The cleancher for me was when I played the first "top sound quality" dvd - The Last Samurai. I almost jumped off the couch during the battle scene. This speaker rocked the house! Far surpassing the clarity of my past $400 Sony and Panasonic 6-speaker systems. And I didn't even have Yamaha's matching subwoofer yet.Don't be dissuaded by the stringent room set up. My livingroom has one side wall of glass windows, and one broken wall with a couch. And still the sound comes from all around. With just a little thoughtfulness and tweaking (and the simple automatic microphone setup), I got full surround.Now, I have the matching YST-FSW100 subwoofer. GET IT! This allows the speaker to focus solely on hi and midrange sounds and lets the deep base to the sub. So much better sound. Just the idea that one speaker can do such an amazing feat is worth the purchase in my mind. And it does it so well. Five Stars Yamaha!...

This review is from: Yamaha YSP-800 82-Watt Digital Sound Projector, BlackI have lived with the Yamaha YSP-800 for approx. 90 days and I have to say this unit does exactly what was expected of it.Many years ago I was considered an audiophile by most of my friends spending obscene amounts on vacum tube pre-amps and amplifiers, turntables, tonearms, moving coil and strain gauge cartridges and exotic speakers of various vintages. At one time my vinyl collection contained over 3000 albums. Currently my music system is much simpler consisting of a receiver, dvd player for music, Infinity floor standing speakers, and a decent Boston Accoustics sub-woofer. I probably don't have the golden ears I read about in some of the remaining hi-fi magazines, but I can usually tell whether equipment sounds close to right which includes qualities like tonal accuracy and balance, sound stage, and depth. In the 1980's my hi-fi equipment was worth over $15,000.00 and included some of the cult names of the time. Currently I have the best sound ever. It comes close to sounding like real music, and is the least expensive system I have had since my early 20's. Total value under $3,000.My wife and I are empty-nesters and decided to move from an estate sized home we had custom built in 1988 to a condo. Part of the old home design included a family room optimized for home theater and hi-fi sound. My hi-fi equipment ranging from expensive to reasonable, plus various large screen and hi-definition televisions all performed great in the room which also served as a gathering place for my son and his friends during his adolescent and teenage years.We have now moved to a condo and experienced major lifestyle change. Our new home is open, bright and airy. Every room opens off a large living area which includes a living room and dining room with vauted ceilings throughout. There is also a den, and sunroom which open from this area with double wide doors. Things look beautiful, but all of the long walls i had grown accustomed to for 19 years were not there. No built-in bookcases for books, CD's and DVD's. No long walls for entertainment equipment. No back wall for surround sound. The solution for hi-fi was easy as our sun-room became the reading and listening room with excellent results. However, no room there for our plasma HDTV. In fact there was only one logical spot in the whole place for a large screen TV which was in one corner of the living room. We had a custom built cabinet for the TV built and it extends from just beyond the door facing leading into the sun room to a set of double wide windows on the opposite side. There is no spot for speakers outside of the cabinet.The first week in the new condo my wife and I both noticed that we had to crank the internal speakers from the plasma TV way up to have decent volume. This was probably the first time I had listened to TV speakers in decades. They have improved, but they sure weren't good. Over the next 3-4 months I examined numerous possibilities for hi-fi sound with the home theatre, but almost everything had drawbacks whether esthetically or sonically.After reading a review of the Yamaha Sound Projector, I went to a local Best Buy that included a Magnolia home theater section to listen to the large Yamaha Sound Projector. I was impressed by the sound and the dynamics. It was clean and the various surround modes were impressive. I asked to hear the unit in stereo-only mode and the help at Best Buy really didn't want to help. After I explained that my new home had almost no walls for sound reflection, the sales person was sure that the Yamaha wound not work as it needed walls to reflect from. H...




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