Yamaha RX-V1067 (RXV1067)

The amplifier itself is full 3D ready. You have got 8 HDMI inputs on the amplifier of which they are wired fully for Version 1.4 to cope with 3D vision and 3D audio return.  The amplifier is 7.1 so it is 7 x 105 watts - but it can be upgraded to 9.1.  You have got front presence speakers available on this amplifier so if you wire up the front presence you can actually adapt it to 9.1 as well.

It is full network capability on the amplifier.  You have got Internet ports on the rear of the amp so you can get internet radio, for instance, through the amplifier, so you have got access to any radio channel in the world through this amp.

It has also got the facility to attach an iPod to it; you need the iPod dock which just plugs into the rear of the amplifier - which we will have a look at in just a moment; we will spin the amplifier round and have a look at all the sockets on the rear - very straightforward to set up.

It does come with a microphone. The microphone just plugs into the front of the amplifier. On the front of the amp you have got this drop-down flap - so we will just pull that down there - and on the front of the amplifier you have got a socket here.  You just plug the microphone in. Once you plug the mic in, it automatically indicates that the microphone is now connected to the amp, and it will do a full acoustic room setup for you. It will balance all the speakers up, set all the speaker levels for you for distance as well, for a full acoustic room setup for your living room conditions.

Once it has done that, you can also go into the Menu on the amplifier - and the Yamaha menus are some of the simplest menus to use on any AV receivers of which, yet again, we will plug it into a TV screen and we will have a look at those in a few minutes as well.

That is the remote control that you get with the Yamaha.  It is a very straightforward remote to use.  The main key factors on here that we will be using in a few minutes will be the Up, Down, Right and Left function and the Enter button in the centre of the remote there.

So, as I said, the amplifier itself has 8 HDMI inputs. You have got 2 HDMI outputs as well - so with the 2 HDMI outs you can fed the signal, say, to your main TV; but if you have also got a projector in the room you can feed another HDMI out to a projector - so you can run two sources for the vision side from this particular amplifier.

It has also got FMA and radio built into it so, as well as a network facility looking at Internet radio, you have also got FM / AM facility through the amplifier as well.

What we will do, we will spin the amplifier and we will just have a look at some of the sockets on the rear of the amp. So when you look at the back of the amplifier, obviously there are a lot of sockets on here and initially they can look extremely complicated to wire up.  In effect they are very straightforward. 

What we have got here are your HDMI sockets running along the top of the amplifier here. And the chances are these are the only sockets that you will be using apart from the speaker sockets on the amplifier. So what we have got here is AV 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7.  You have also got the 8^th HDMI just under the flap on the front of the amplifier. So these are all your inputs on the amplifier itself.

So you can wire in your Blu-ray DVD into here as well as, say, maybe your cable HD source or your satellite HD source.  You may have a games console such as a PS3 or Xbox 360 that you want to connect into here as well, which you can do through the HDMI input. So you plug all your sources into these sockets here.

The two here are your HDMI outputs.  So you just take a lead from here to your TV.  That is your amplifier wired up. If you have only got, say, Sky, Blu-ray DVD, games console, you plug it into these sockets -then one from here into the amplifier.  And then you just select either AV1 maybe for your Blu-ray DVD, or AV2 possibly for your satellite - and the picture comes onto your TV and the sound will come through your amplifier.  Very, very straightforward to wire up.

The other sockets that you have got on here are things like Component - yet again, some games consoles use component, so the red/green/blue socket you would feed into here.  Yet again, you can output this signal via the HDMI.  You have also got your iPod dock which is just here - yet again you can buy an iPod dock from Yamaha for this particular amplifier.

And these are all your speaker terminals running down the bottom here.  So on here you have got basically your Surround Right and Left, you have got Back Surround, Centre, front speakers right and left - and those are your presence speakers. So those are your front presence - so if you want an additional pair of speakers to go over and above the front two speakers you can do so through front presence.  And then you have just got your main socket here.

You would also need to plug a subwoofer into the amplifier so you would just find the subwoofer socket on the amplifier which I think is there, yes, just underneath there that is your subwoofer.  So you would have your subwoofer connected into there, your speakers into here, and just your HDMI inputs into here from each source that you are using, then HDMI out to your TV.

You have also got then your aerial socket for your FM radio and AM just down here as well.  So your FM connection for FM and AM down here.  There is your Ethernet port so if you want to do any networking through the amplifier then you have got the network facility through the amplifier as well.

So that is a brief rundown of the sockets on the rear. And as I said, pretty straightforward to wire up.  And the Menu systems are some of the simplest to use as well.

Okay, for the Onscreen Menus on the Yamaha, we are going to be using the remote control now - I want to show you how easy these menus are to use.  As I said, we sell various amps from Yamaha, to Sony, to Pioneer, to Onkyo - but the Yamaha menus are some of the simplest.

You have basically button here and on that button there it says Onscreen.  Then we are just going to use the Up, Down, Right and Left buttons and Enter just here.  So, on the amplifier, if we press the Onscreen button that I have just shown you, it puts the Onscreen Menu up from the amplifier. And then we just use the Up, Down, Right or Left here - so we scroll down the information here; it takes us through various options on the amplifier.

If we go into Setup - as I said, the amplifier itself does come with a microphone and will do a full acoustic room setup for you - but quite often you may want to set that up manually yourself; you might want to alter the level of the rear speakers or the front speakers - which you can do. 

So, we have gone into the speaker setup.  We just press the Enter button which is the centre button in that Up, Down, Right and Left - and go into Manual Setup.  In Manual Setup, then, it gives us various options.  It shows us the speaker setup here - so we have got 1, 2 ,3, 4, 5 and the subwoofer on there.  So it is set up on here as 5.1.  You can alter that configuration; as we come down into that we have got options then to, say, adjust that to - we are talking about the front presence speakers - we can go into that; and at the moment I see we have just got the two speakers here; if we say Use to say that we are using front presence, it shows you where those speakers should be going - which are up and above your two front speakers on there as well.

So if we just come out of that for a moment, we will switch those off to go back to a 5.1 setting.  You can go into various options - and as we go through them there we can see the front speakers are highlighted.  If we go into the centre one, the centre one is highlighted there now.  Once you set on the one you want to adjust, just press Enter.  And first of all you can adjust it for Large or Small depending on the type of speakers you are using. And you just go through all the settings accordingly on those. The same for the front speakers - I just go through the Surround and so on - and it will change the speakers accordingly, depending on what type of speakers you are using on the system.

If we come out of there for a second and go back into that Menu and back into Setup, and back into Manual Setup, you can also set the distance - where you are sat for how far the speakers are away from you - and also the level of each speaker.  So if you are not happy with the level of, say, the rear speakers, you can select Surround Left, just press Enter and you can alter that setting and turn that speaker up or down accordingly to how you want that to be.  And same for the rear right as well.

And as I said, very, very, very straightforward to use - not complicated at all.  So, there are the onscreen menus from the Yamaha - very, very straightforward. What we will do now is just take a final look at the front of the amp.

Okay, so here we have a quick close-up of the front of the amplifier again.  Just to run through the actual controls on the amp itself, you have got.  That is just your On/Off switch just there.  Underneath there you have got your input selector - so just the same on the remote control, if you just spin this around it selects between the different inputs on here.  So you have got all your different inputs showing, such as your tuner on the front of there; PC, iPod dock, AV1, AV2 - that is just running through the HDMI sockets on the rear of the amplifier; you can see it just spinning through those on there.  As I said, it will go through to various different options. 

And when you come down from there you have got the flap here, where you have got all your controls that are on the remote are literally on here.  We were talking before about the Up, Down and the Enter button and the Right and Left - that is all in this section here.  And you have also got various different other controls for FM / AM radio switching and tuning the radio channels and so forth all on this area.  You have got a USB input on there.  You have also got another HDMI and optical input on there as well, and standard AV input - things like Wii games, consoles, rather than plug into the rear if they are not permanently wired you can just plug it temporarily into the front of the amplifier.

You have then just got your volume control which is on the front of the amp to the right. And Pure Direct which bypasses all these sort of bass and treble and various effects and so forth, to give you more pure audio for when you are just listening to, say, music from a CD source.  This amplifier is also a very good musical amplifier; if you want to use it as a hi-fi amplifier it is a very good hi-fi amp as well as being an extremely good AV amplifier as well.

So, there you have it!  That is the RXV1067 from Yamaha - a fantastic amplifier. And as we have shown, amplifiers don’t have to be complicated; very straightforward to set up; superb menus to use as well.

If you would like some more details - not just on this amplifier but on many other amps that we do from various other manufacturers, either go through to our website where you will find other video clips on there as well - our website is www.soundandvision.co.uk.  My name is Chris - please give me a call on 01204 861 861 if you would like any more details at all. Or call into one of our stores, either in Bolton or Leeds. 

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