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Home Theater Sound says:

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a product garner more universal praise than the Yamaha DSP-A1 audio/video integrated amp/surround-sound processor. And for probably the first time in history, all the critics were right: The Yamaha DSP-A1 was a fabulous unit. I should know. After a rather exhaustive search, I bought one almost two years ago. Well, time stands still for no man or flagship product, and the DSP-A1 is now yesterday’s news. Yamaha has replaced its respected DSP-A1 with the RX-V1. When I say that Yamaha went back to the drawing board with this piece, I’m not just spouting rhetoric.

The addition of a tuner, to create a full-fledged audio/video receiver, was one change. To be honest, I don’t listen to much FM and don’t judge myself to be the last word on tuner performance appraisal, but I found the FM tuner to be quite good. It easily picked up all the usual suspects in my receiving area and delivered generally clean and enjoyable sound…more