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The Yamaha RX-V2600′s seductive sound is matched by its up-to-the-minute features and stellar build quality.

Sound & Vision says:

The Yamaha’s auto-setup routine yielded channel levels within about a decibel of those established using my own sound meter — pretty darn good. Still, the Yamaha RX-V2600 chose a 200 -Hz crossover point for my front speaker trio (way too high, by my lights) and inappropriately set my big (but hardly full-range) surrounds to “large.” I recalibrated using my meter and set the crossovers to the THX-standard 80 Hz all around — my usual setup. The RX-V2600′s brain also dialed in equalization for each speaker. This actually sounded none too bad, though a bit “over-corrected” to my ear. Though you can tweak the EQ settings manually from the onscreen menus, I defeated this feature for most of my listening. And speaking of the onscreen menus, the RX-V2600′s are more colorful and more hierarchical than on previous Yamaha models. They’re perfectly clear and pretty to look at, but I found them a bit more confusing to navigate than Yamaha’s earlier, simpler, text-only menus…more