HK AVR630 vs. Yamaha RX-V1500???

[PAT.P]

The Yamaha weighs 34lbs, the HK weighs 41lbs. I wonder where all that weight goes too....

Sorry but for a weight isue this is a bit to far ! are the old tv sound better than the new TV (not) MAYBE I COULD OPEN MY RECEIVER AND ADD SOME ROCKS IN IT WHAT DO YOU THINK ?MY SONY WILL BECOME A HK!PAT.P

[nick4433]

Sorry but for a weight isue this is a bit to far ! are the old tv sound better than the new TV (not) MAYBE I COULD OPEN MY RECEIVER AND ADD SOME ROCKS IN IT WHAT DO YOU THINK ?MY SONY WILL BECOME A HK!PAT.P

NO, but since you came up with the "rock" analogy, maybe you should!
While I agree that unless you double the power you won't feel the difference and all that is fine but, DD and DTS are very power hungry and any amount of reserve power your receiver can provide will help in enhancing the movie experience.
I have tried the Yamaha 3300 and the Denon 4802 as receivers and even those receivers fell short in comarison to my amps which are 150W/channel so I was not even close to doubling my amp power over the existing receivers.
I could tell a difference in music and movies right away in that everything sounded much cleaner and less muddier than the receiver's own amplification. Infact in my experience, the extra power seemed to have benefited DTS movies slightly more than DD although both sounded much better with external amplification.
The doubling of power should not be seen as an issue at all IMHO because you don't necessarily want to double the listening volume but have more power in reserve and I believe the HKs have definitely more of reserve power than the Yammys.
One reason I put forth favoring the HK was its awesome Bass management for external sources which everyone here deem trivial but very important IMHO and I will buy the HK for that reason alone over the said Yamaha. Both have identical decoding abilities and while the Yamaha does have YPAO, I wouldn't stress too much over it as it does nothing to adjust the most critical of all adjustments, Bass.

[PAT.P]

NO, but since you came up with the "rock" analogy, maybe you should!
While I agree that unless you double the power you won't feel the difference and all that is fine but, DD and DTS are very power hungry and any amount of reserve power your receiver can provide will help in enhancing the movie experience.
I have tried the Yamaha 3300 and the Denon 4802 as receivers and even those receivers fell short in comarison to my amps which are 150W/channel so I was not even close to doubling my amp power over the existing receivers.
I could tell a difference in music and movies right away in that everything sounded much cleaner and less muddier than the receiver's own amplification. Infact in my experience, the extra power seemed to have benefited DTS movies slightly more than DD although both sounded much better with external amplification.
The doubling of power should not be seen as an issue at all IMHO because you don't necessarily want to double the listening volume but have more power in reserve and I believe the HKs have definitely more of reserve power than the Yammys.
One reason I put forth favoring the HK was its awesome Bass management for external sources which everyone here deem trivial but very important IMHO and I will buy the HK for that reason alone over the said Yamaha. Both have identical decoding abilities and while the Yamaha does have YPAO, I wouldn't stress too much over it as it does nothing to adjust the most critical of all adjustments, Bass.

My audio dealer sells lots of kind of receiver ,amps ,pre-amps ask him honestly (WHAT RECEIVER WOULD BE THE BEST TO UPGRADE TOO AND TOLD ME THE YAMAHA ! ) This is the reason the Hk ,Marantz ect ect are behind the Yamaha and the feature of the Yamaha are one step ahead in the home theater ! Its the next receiver I'll be buying !We cant all think the same? Pat.P