First Yamaha Receiver

I've owned several different brands of A/V receiver, including Denon and most recently Onkyo. I have a great 5.1 system in my den (with a second zone outside) and have always felt that either my receiver or the Paradigm Monitor 7s up front have been lacking. Until now. The RX-A2080 is amazing. I bi-amped the Monitor 7s and that made a world of difference. But it's more than that. Folks say to buy Yamaha for music playback, and now I see why. Don't think I'll ever go back to another brand. And that's on top of the easy setup and remote app that makes it simple to play Spotify via Bluetooth in either zone. Very satisfied - and thanks to Zak at Crutchfield for the advice.

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Yamaha AVENTAGE RX-A2080

Amazing. Just perfect design and function.

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A giant leap forward

The sound in my great room has come alive. Today, it has configured itself brilliantly and using the same 5.1 speakers, it has unlocked delightful secrets long hidden by my old receiver. I am exploring with great delight its new world of AI surround, built in sound fields, and phantom rear and overhead speakers which are making my video and music come to life. I can only immagine what awaits when I add four more more real speakers to my great room and teach it to drive my master and den. Whew!

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Yamaha AVENTAGE RX-A2080

Great so far, with a few exceptions. Using an older Samsung (Still HDCP2.2 capable) the Receiver will not recognize the TV as being HDCP 2.2 capable meaning that you can't send 4K content through the Receiver to TV, old Marantz I replaced due to power issues had no problems sending 4k to TV . Can't seem to find a fix through any research. This required me to plug in Fire Cube into TV and count on ARC to send audio to Receiver, instead of plugging the device into the Receiver. YPAO leaves a lot to be desired. Had some really weird distances and settings for the speakers after multiple iterations of running it. so wound up just doing Manual setup. The overall sound is great, and options for Spotify, and speaker setup is great.

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Outstanding

This Yamaha Aventage RX-A2080 is really a simple unit to set up. It has one off the easiest music interfaces to navigate on screen I have ever used. So far I have watched movies ,listen to Sirius XM using my app on my phone, used the USB input to listen to my HI Res collection on my flash drive. Everything has worked perfectly and the sound is excellent. I only have a 5.1 set up but its all I need right now. I plan on adding a turntable later to complete my system.If you are looking for a Surround Receiver I highly recommend the Yamaha Aventage RX-A2080.

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Another great Yamaha receiver

My third Yamaha receiver and it doesn't disappoint. I got it for the extra driven channels for the Dolby Atmos/Elevation Speakers... Sounds great as expected

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Yamaha AVENTAGE RX-A2080

I am thrilled with the Yamaha. Setup was very easy and straightforward. The sound quality and performance has been beyond my expectations. I bought this upgrade to a 7.2.4 atmos setup and it works great.

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Yamaha AVENTAGE RX-A2080

The new RX-A2080 is only a few months old, but it is working well. This unit is an upgrade to my old A1000 which did not have 4K capability since that technology did not exist back then and can now serve as music for the garage. The new A2080 also has Apple AirPlay 2 and Spotify Connect so I can once again stream music. The A2080 also has more power than the A1080 as well as two ESS Sabre Premier digital-to-analog converters. The last item I was looking for was Dolby Atmos and I now have this too.

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Built to last, heavy.

Nice receiver ... a quality unit with plenty of power to drive my Klipsch speakers, which it does no problem. Set up was fairly easy. I bought this so I good also power speakers in additional rooms. It is a sizable receiver and has some weight to it just to let you know.

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Fantastic receiver

Great receiver! Slight learning curve for best performance but well worth the time. Movie and music sound great with excellent accuracy and detail.

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Yamaha AVENTAGE RX-A2080

Great receiver and setup was a breeze. Had a Bose Lifestyle system but integration was seamless due to very knowledgeable tech. Nice job folks!!

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Yamaha AVENTAGE RX-A2080

I have owned this Yamaha RX-A2080 for three months now and really don't like it . It won't stream video though my local network from my home PC, only audio. The display does not show you what surround mode you are in. Now the receiver is giving some random popping sounds through the speakers after being on for about 30-45 minutes. Sound quality is good though when its playing audio or video.

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Yamaha AVENTAGE RX-A2080

I got a 55 inch Sony ultra hd an all new audio quest cables. Roku ultra. Polk signature S 60-S 35-S20. The last was this Rxa 2080 all I can say is that this receiver is a great setup. I want to thank Cructhfield an there great staff for all there help getting my system setup like this it's amazing. Tom.

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Customer service makes this receiver great!!

First point of my review has to do with the customer service. Stone, Tina, Marshall and Cosmo were all very helpful with my purchase, especially Stone. I spent almost an hour on the phone with him discussing the pro's and con's of the A2080 versus the A3080. I received the receiver and the packing could of the made the receiver make it though a stampede of buffalo's. Receiver is doing exactly what I need the receiver to do and the app is making it user friendly for my wife and me. Still tweaking in the setting but thats the fun of owning a receiver like this. Again, without the customer service like Stone at Crutchfield I would of been lost in what receiver to purchase!!

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Thanks Crutchfield

So far I am so very pleased with my new receiver . It's gonna take me weeks to figure out all it can do. I bought B&W tower speakers, sub, center and rear speakers for it. It's so nice to have the sound and the power I grew up with again in my house. I bought from Crutchfield for a few reasons. 1. You just cannot find home stereo stores in town like we used to be able to do back in the day and so having someone you can trust while purchasing online is paramount. 2. Because of the name recognition I felt pretty much garanteed that I could rest well in my order knowing that I am purchasing from a company that will stand behind my purchase and protect me during the purchase and shipping stage. The box showed up to my house so well packaged that I think it could have survived a nuke strike! Lol. Seriously, it showed up totally protected from the vigors of shipping companies. I knew it would because I was buying from a company with a proven track record for care and flollow through on what they sell. The only regret that I have is that I didn't spend the money for even more power!!! Thanks Crutchfield for a seamless transaction and for all of the support that your site provided in helping me make the right decision. In my book, you're the only game in town. If you want to not worry about your purchase of high dollar stereo gear online then buy from Crutchfield. Sean

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Great receiver and support from Crutchfield

Phenomenal sound and easy to set up and use . The Yamaha app makes this receiver far superior to the Onkyo receiver it replaced . The customer support I received was also great - I used the chat to ask sales questions and order and then called with a question when setting up . All was better than the big box store

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Yamaha AVENTAGE RX-A2080

I have only owned the unit for about a month now but it has performed wonderfully. The set up was easy. This is the first receiver I have owned that had a microphone for automating the speaker sound level set up and it was nice to not have to dig out my sound pressure level meter and futz about with that. The feature that settled me on buying this particular receiver as the Surround:AI function. With the caveat that I have not owned the unit for long and so do not have a breadth of experience testing it - it does seem to work as advertised. I would definitely recommend this receiver.

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Yamaha AVENTAGE RX-A2080

This is a great AVR. I replaced my old Yamaha a1020 with this a2080. And I'm more than happy . This has 4k compatibility and atmos which are 2 main reasons I had to replace my a1020. Very happy with the a2080 so far.

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Over priced

Over priced, 1st one we were sent worked about 15 minutes and shut down and never came back on

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Fantastic sound, AI features impressive, very solid sound

Received my AVR, unboxed and hooked up the power, speakers, DirectTV, Blu-ray with output to my Sony XBR-55X900E TV. I was replacing a Denon XVR 2100W which worked well but was not HDCP 2.2 compatible and underpowered driving my Definitive 9020's. Following the powerup and reading the setup, I plugged in the YPAO Mic and followed the directions to set up the system. I will say this is much less intuitive that the Audessy setup from the Denon which involves several repeat steps, the Yamaha is much easlier. Following that I selected the input and streamed TV, then Music from my Direct TV feed. I was "BLOWN AWAY" by the clarity, power, separation and detail of the RXA 2080. I played with several of the DSP settings to shape the streaming Direct TV Pandora feed and then enabling the PURE DIRECT and driving the 9020's to their full potential, it was extremely impressive. I did encounter an issue when engaging PURE DIRECT that was not clearly pointed out in the guide anywhere. When you engage PURE DIRECT it disables the Menu functionally stating "NOT AVAILABLE" prompting me to panic and do a master reset several times when flipping back forth to PURE DIRECT. It makes sense that external functionality would be disabled but gave me bit of panic rushing off to Yamaha tech support, (no reply btw) and finally figuring this out on my own. Once I got past that, I was able to finish setup through the menu functions and load Music-cast which allowed me to access Pandora from the

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Yamaha AVENTAGE RX-A2080

Fantastic sound quality. Excellent build quality. I've had little time to explore all of the options available on this receiver, but the features I have used so far have been great. I replaced a Denon AVR2113 with this receiver, and so far I've been more than happy. Purchased from Crutchfield for the excellent service and support.

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Yamaha AVENTAGE RX-A2080

The new Yamaha Aventage receivers are great musically, but the operating software has a few quirks. They are mostly related to HDMI hand-shaking. The Marantz receivers don't sound as good but are far more intuitive to operate and don't have the quirks of the Yamaha. Te bottom line is...There is no perfect AV Receiver.

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Awesome Qualtiy And Sound

So far so good. This thing is a beast and sounds amazing. I was going to go with a system like Control 4 but am so glad I saved the money and went with this receiver :D.

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