My RX-A3000 was delivered

[GMichael]

Receive the Yamaha yesterday.....but didn't get a chance to install until today. Play chauffeur last night and drove the kids back and forth all over the place after dinner. Got home early and set it up today. I connected a Sony bluray , Sony CD, Verizon FIOS cable box, SB Touch/Dac Magic & Samsung 50" 720P to the unit. At first listen sounds great....not calibrated yet (will do it tonight). The music thru the Paradigm sound a tad warmer (which is a good thing). When playing the bluray the images appears a little sharper and brighter even thru the 720p set (will be getting a new tv shortly). The SB Touch/Dac Magic combo sounds great. Haven't play around with settings yet. I am so glad I got this great deal.

Looks like a great deal so far. Let us know how it sounds tonight.

I moved the 2500 into the bedroom and calibrated. It is a nice improvement over the HTR. Ithas much more power than the bookselves in their can draw.
Next step is to put the HTR into Cutie's room. It will be nice to be able to let her watch her Drangon Tales DVD in her own room. The songs are starting to stick in my head. I wake up hearing the tunes in my head each morning.

[bobsticks]

It's too bad that you missed this deal. YAMAHA RX-A3000 7.2-Channel AVENTAGE Network A/V Receiver App for iPhone or iPod Touch $1200 - Slickdeals.net

It started Saturday and they were out of stock by Tuesday. Check back with Slickdeals.net to see if a new one comes out soon. You could also go to Newegg's site and sign up to be notified if the price drops below $x.

That is a great deal.

My neighbor picked up one for his basement HT project...just an outstanding unit. I helped him with the setup and have had a chance to get moderately familiar with it. I've been a pretty vocal Onkyo advocate but if I needed to upgrade at this moment the AVENTAGE would be tops on the list. Great catch gentlemen.

[kexodusc]

Way to go on snarfing up the deal GM. I still have 2 old Yammies in secondary duty that just refuse to die. They don't even hesitate in the cold of winter.

I love HDMI. Makes life easier for the most part. Worthwhile upgrade IMO. (Though a few of my sources don't always prefer it.)

[GMichael]

Thanks guys! I am really loving all the flexability this AVR gives me. I did have to run componets cables from the cable box to it though. Seems that it will upgrade anything to HDMI, but it won't downgrade HDMI to any analog. And analog is all that is available for zones 2, 3 & 4. Maybe in a year or so they will have models that output in HDMI to any zone. But by that time HDMI will have been replaced by cat6 or something.

[GMichael]

Way to go on snarfing up the deal GM. I still have 2 old Yammies in secondary duty that just refuse to die. They don't even hesitate in the cold of winter.

I love HDMI. Makes life easier for the most part. Worthwhile upgrade IMO. (Though a few of my sources don't always prefer it.)

I was waiting on this deal. I had several models that I was hoping to see deals on. This one was tops on my list (I had little hope to see a sweet deal on a 3010). As soon as I saw this deal, it was being bought 30 seconds later.

[Mingus]

Did the manual setup on the Yamaha...... the auido and video performance is excellent. Didn't have the quiet time to run the auto calibration yet. Will do it after vacation and will also be thinking of running a network cable from the router to network port to use the networking features.