A cousin of mine recently got a used Yamaha HTR-5280, and as far as I’ve been able to tell Yamaha makes some pretty good receivers at least from the sound that I have heard so far. While this model is older and doesn’t support HDMI or anything of that sort. But if you are on a budget and don’t have some fancy speakers and s fancy TV but you want some pretty good sound then this would be a great unit to look at if you want surround sound without dropping a whole lot of money, and than buying new speakers to make sure that it work to its fullest.
This has a lot of different sound stages for instance things such as concert hall, and
rock. This basically attempts to make whatever music you are listening to sound more as if you where there. It does a pretty good job of this to. It sounds pretty good, now of course it’s nothing compared to say the Yamaha 663 which provides 7.2 and accepts the new high def audio signals that you can get.
This unit offers 100 watts by 5 which I’ll tell you will probably be more than you need if you are on this much of a budget that you need to buy a cheaper receiver like this. If you have a large room you are just much better off investing in a much larger system that will actually be able to fill the room with sound otherwise your ...
