Yamaha RX-A700 7.1-Channel Audio/Video Receiver 

Yamaha AVENTAGE RX-A700 Audio/Video Receiver: An Inspired Leap Forward in Home Entertainment

 

An elegant look with discreet but powerful front panel controls. Click to enlarge

AVENTAGE is a dramatic, inspired leap forward in audio/video component design. AVENTAGE brings studio grade sound and sophisticated video enhancements to your home with unparalleled attention to detail in design, engineering, and fabrication. We rethought every electrical path, every part, every piece, and every material to maximize performance. Details that at first glance would not seem to affect the quality of sight, sound, and control, when brought together in an AVENTAGE component, produce a work of visual and acoustic art.

In addition to an innovative new construction design, the RX-A700 A/V Receiver supports 3D and Audio Return channel over 6 in/1 out HDMI, new GUI with overlay on HD and 3D sources, CINEMA DSP 3D surround sound, RS-232C interface for custom installation, and Control4® certification.

A Unique Approach to Enhanced Performance

Enhanced Stability: Double Bottom Construction and a Specially Designed 5th Foot (A.R.T. Wedge)

A specially designed fifth foot adds even more stability to reduce vibration

Strong stability in an amplifier design reduces noise and jitter in your digital signal for clearer audio and video. High-grade, heavier terminals reduce vibration at the speaker connections. An additional bottom cover contributes extra support at higher volume levels for the power transformer and heat sinks. And the specially-designed fifth foot at the center of the amplifier--an Anti-Resonance Technology (A.R.T.) Wedge--improves overall structural rigidity and reduces vibration, resulting in a more stable signal and sound improvement.

Enhanced Power: Low Jitter Circuitry

Built-in Low Jitter circuitry reduces jitter from digital sources, including HDMI, using a more precise timing control--so you can be sure of a stable audio/video signal, resulting in perfectly reproduced images and sound.

A hybrid power supply makes the AVENTAGE series even more efficient. Independent power supplies for the digital and analog circuit results in less power consumption in standby mode, and a more efficient power transformer--so despite the power of the RX-A700, it could cost you less to run.

 

 

Browse music, movies and setting with the new full-color GUI. Click to enlarge

Enhanced Control: New GUI and RS-232 for Custom Installation

The RX-A700 features many ways to control your media. A new full-color GUI with support for album art lets you browse movies, music, and settings on your HDTV. An RS-232C port lets the RX-A700 integrate easily with any custom home theater installation. Control4® certification provides effortless entertainment, comfort, convenience and peace of mind with one of the most popular home automation platforms.

Need more connection options? This receiver is SIRIUS Satellite Radio-ready for even more music (subscription required). Or expand further with optional accessories like the Yamaha YDS-12 Universal Dock for iPod or the Yamaha YBA-10 Bluetooth Wireless Audio Receiver (sold separately).

The improved GUI lets you control your home entertainment system and adjust settings simply. Its updated, intuitive interface features an HD overlay, so you can call the menu and it will appear unintrusively for quick commands--without interrupting or switching from whatever's playing onscreen.

How AVENTAGE Delivers Lifelike Sound and Picture Quality

The Latest HDMI Features and High-Definiton Audio Decoders for a Cinematic Experience

With seven channels and 630 watts of powerful surround sound (90W x 7 RMS), you can immerse yourself in your favorite movies and music. The latest HD Audio format decoding such as Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD Master Audio, Dolby Digital Plus, and DTS-HD High Resolution Audio render soundtracks in lifelike detail. The latest HDMI support brings features like Deep Color (30/36 bit), x.v.Color, 24Hz refresh rate capability, and Auto Lip-Sync compensation. And with 6 1080p-compatible HDMI inputs (including 1 front) and 1 HDMI output, the RX-A700 has room and power to spare for all your high-definition home entertainment gear.

Exclusive Yamaha Features for Surround Realism

Yamaha CINEMA DSP is an advanced exclusive technology for creating richly realized independent sound fields that envelop you in an unmatched surround sound experience. With dialogue, music and effects ideally located in these separate sound fields, you will hear sound with accurate placement, smooth movement, exceptional clarity and richness, and startlingly realistic presence. 17 CINEMA DSP 3D settings let you customize the effect for your room. Adaptive DSP Level evaluates the difference between the volume level and a reference level, adjusting the DSP level to ensure optimum effectiveness, so you'll experience cinema-quality audio even at lower volumes.

CINEMA DSP's decoding technology also takes advantage of Yamaha's Compressed Music Enhancer, so you can enjoy your digital music library on your home theater system without sacrificing audio quality.

SCENE buttons lets you simplify your home theater settings. Pressing a single SCENE button automatically launches multiple operations to make your devices work together--no more fumbling with the remote control. The front panel SCENE buttons are initially set to default settings for DVD Viewing, Disc Listening, TV Viewing and Radio Listening, but can be customized to whatever you need.

Yamaha™'s YPAO system uses a small microphone (included) and sophisticated equalization to automatically set the best sound for any room, no matter where the speakers are. First, it checks the speaker connections and phase of each speaker. Then it sends out tones which are captured by the microphone to analyze the room acoustics and sets a variety of parameters, such as the speaker size, the distance of the speakers and even the sound pressure level until it achieves the best sound conditions for your room--and you don't have to do anything.

Technical Specifications

Output Power: 630 watts (90w x 7 RMS)

Impedance: 8 ohms

Frequency Response: 10Hz - 100kHz (3dB)

Total Harmonic Distortion: 0.04%

Signal-to-Noise Ratio: 100dB

HDMI Inputs/Outputs: 6/1

USB Inputs/Outputs: 1/0

Ethernet Inputs/Outputs: 1/0

Radio: AM/FM with HD Radio

Dock Terminal for Compatible Accessories: 1

Optical Inputs/Outputs: 2/0

Coaxial Inputs/Outputs: 2/0

Analog AV Inputs/Outputs: 5/1

Component Video Inputs/Outputs: 2/1

Composite/S-Video Inputs/Outputs: 5/5/1/1

RS-232C Interface: 1

Multichannel External Decoder: 8 channels

Dimensions (W x H x D): 17-1/8" x 6" x 14-3/4"

Weight: 23.1 lbs