RX-V1700B Digital Home Theatre Receiver

If you are really serious about your home theatre, the RX-V1700B is the logical choice.

Its many impressive features include: YDS-10S iPod dock connector, Burr-Brown DACs, HDMI video A/D conversion, and advanced custom installation features; including a dedicated zone remote.

The RX-V1700B (130W x 7, 8 ohms, 20Hz - 20kHz, 0.04%THD) is one of the first receivers in its class to offer 2-in/1-out HDMI switching with up-conversion features. This process provides the most advanced method of delivering high-quality video to a home theatre system, allowing you to enjoy DVD and satellite TV with HD quality. Compatible with HDMI version 1.2a, it supports 1080p and can also decode digital audio signals including Super Audio CD, Dolby Digital and DTS.

Add Yamaha’s YDS-10S universal dock to view iPod music, images and video files in the high quality reproduction they deserve. Content can be navigated on-screen via the familiar album, artist or genre categories. This neat docking station operates on a single cable to the RX-V1700B.

The RX-V1700B also allows video composite, S-video and component signals to be up-converted to HDMI output, with a TBC (Time Base Corrector) that stabilises the video signal. A video de-interlacer, superior to any other in this class of receiver, effectively delivers best-quality progressive video images.

Advanced zone 2 and zone 3 features on-board the RX-V1700B provide true multi-room flexibility. You have the option to operate 5.1 channels in your theatre while running stereo in Zone 2; or to run 3.1 channels in your theatre while running stereo in Zone 2 and Zone 3 simultaneously. Dual-programmable 12-volt trigger outputs and an RS-232C port further enhance the custom installation features of this versatile and impressive receiver.

The RX-V1700B features powerful 7-channel amplification and employs Yamaha’s Digital ToP-ART (Total Purity Audio Reproduction Technology) design concept to maximise digital sound quality, with several operation modes that provide short, direct signal paths for even greater sound clarity. Audiophiles will be impressed by the inclusion of audio-grade Burr-Brown DACs, which delivering superlative sound quality. High quality stereo sound reproduction is further enhanced by Yamaha’s upgraded Pure Direct Switch with a zero Intermediate Frequency (IF) and low-jitter Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) circuit.

Yamaha Parametric Room Acoustic Optimiser (YPAO) simplifies the home theatre setup process by automatically analysing room acoustics and setting parameters for optimum sound quality at the listening position, all at the touch of a button. The entire process takes less than three minutes––and with YPAO, the user can be assured of ‘professionally calibrated’ surround sound quality.

A Compressed Music Enhancer has been developed to further improve high and low response when playing back digital formats such as MP3 and WMA. iPods and other portable music players sound refreshingly enriched with this special DSP, reproducing files in the clarity they were originally intended.

The RX-V1700B delivers a rich and realistic surround sound performance through a choice of 22 surround programs including all the Dolby and DTS formats, CINEMA DSP programs and HiFi DSP programs.

RRP: $1,999

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