Quote Originally Posted by wileecoyote
Thanks you guys pretty much backed up what I thought I knew. Pre outs are a must and the YPAO sounds very cool. I`m thinking the RX-V is worth a little extra for something I hope will keep me happy for awhile. I don`t mind paying more for something better.
The two series have identical list prices, so any price difference would be more on a case by case basis. The only difference is that the retail channels that the HTR series goes into are more likely to markdown the prices off of MSRP. And that's really the main reason why Yamaha split the series this way when they started sending their receivers into the mass merchandising channels, to keep them from directly competing with their long-time specialty retailers. They are the same products, but not all consumers know this. If Yamaha had started letting the Best Buys of the world start selling their entire RX-V lineup, they would have had a revolt from the rest of their dealer network. When JBL went mass market in the 80s, their long-time dealers dropped them in droves, and now the only way you can find JBL's higher end products is to go overseas where they have maintained better relations with their dealer networks.