Just to share my recent adventure in upgrading my HT system. Was looking at Yamaha amp + speakers (spk150/160) and did some auditioning in HN. They are 'OK' but not great, and even HN staff advise to upgrade to other speakers like Jamo. I do like Jamo (606 if I'm not mistaken) but was much expesive than the Spk150/160 that I was testing earlier.

Then did more research and came acrosss Pioneer's Andrew Jones series. Went to HN to audition again and loved them! Much better than the Yamaha speakers (but didn't do side by side comparison with Jamo). However, most places only sell them in bundle with Pioneer avr.

Then went to Desa and was so happy that they sell the speaker set without bundle, and I could choose my own avr. So I got the RXV577 (needeed the wifi) + AJ speakers (5.1) @ rm3800. Slightly above my initial budget but I really love the speakers. Wonderful for movies but more importantly excellent for music as I listen to music alot.

So, if you're looking for a new system and planning to get a Yamaha avr, don't limit yourself to Yamaha speakers. They are many other choices. Also, give AJ series a try.

living room. 

don't need super nice, decent is good enough.

Just putting my Two Sen into this...

My experience with Yamaha Subwoofer has not been great. (not very lasting)

I agree with dirtrun, the sifu of Subwoofer is HTKaki

You should also consider SVS sub...

Does anyone know whether RXV-477 supports DTS HD Master Audio? I played a movie running Dolby TrueHD and the display shows 'TrueHD'. But when I run a DTS HD MA movie, it shows only 'DTS'. Is it supposed to show DTS only regardless DTS, HD HRA, HD MA, or this AVR doesn't support it?

The manual shows the logo supported as below, but why the 'RXV477 only' and 'RXV577 only' disclaimer in bracket?

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Thanks.

p/s: I have done research on internet and all of them mentioned it support DTS HD MA on the specification page. I also cant find RXV series audio decoding comparison chart anywhere.

Never been to CMY Penang. I went to their shop in KL is pretty good

Sorry my bet. 

I check wrongly the model. Not RX-677, It is RX-673.   I even DL the wrong manual. But the process update is similar. The new firmware is 1.84 for RX-673.

Need help, i still cant get my atmos to work even with the ori bd with atmos. After all setting it show only 7.1 dolby true hd, out of ideal normall its a straigh thingy right

Its individual preference.. thou' l suspect , eventually all new AVR's will come with ATMOS [ New DTS-equivalent, too ??? ] n l also see tat it will be customisable - meaning .. you can wire it up or not [ just straight 5.1/7.1 ]

I personally dont hear much diff in de theaters ATMOS presentation  vis-a-vis regular surround but then its just me..

I would recommend you try out first before deciding as buying/setting up such a system is not cheap or easy unless you really want it..

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I tink if ur rcvr is not ATMOS then u r getting tru hd only.. its not enhanced in anyway - its bckwrd compatible .. but mixed into de rear surrs.. kinda like if you hv 5.1 but ur disc is 7.1 - u get d 4 surr channels mixed into 2..

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but you lost the flying heli,raining or thunder effect