Recieved my Yamaha YSP-2200 today

[Cookie Monster]

Yep thanks to Peter Tyson and their excellent delivery service i recieved my new soundbar today.

Initial opinion is very high. Recently sold a Sony SDR-DN1000 + Jamo A102 speaker package. With cabling stands etc paid ???700 ish. Got new soundbar for ???720.

When you consider the form factor, built quality, greater space and i guess most importantly sound quality the Yamaha walks all over my old package.

Tried it with a few discs, best was Jurassic Park - T Rex, raining scene. WOW! There were effects in there that i hadn't heard before like when the T Rex breaks the glass roof to the jeep there are several spaced out cracks that appear in the soundstage. My settee is back to the wall in a very odd shape room so impossible to recieve effects from behind but in the corners of the room there was definetly a stream of water that i could here when i played the demo disc, stood up and it was still there. In a perfect room it must be fantastic.

Still early days, lots of exploring and playing left to do. But just wanted to add a customer view.

Only Negative- The remote is heavily scratched. This box had never been opened, so somebody at Yamaha has been a bit naughty!

 

[grdunn123]

send the remote back and ask for a new one.

 

[Anonymous]

Good stuff. That soundbar must sure sound great.

 

[Anonymous]

im thinking of getting one of these but am concerned by my room layout, tv is off center and we have a couple of windows with curtains etc.. does it still work ok with this kind of room?

 

[clle]

I love mine - however tv is in a corner so I do think you lose some of the surround effects when you do not have the perfect room set up.

 

[Anonymous]

I have a connection question regarding this soundbar.

I have 2 HDMI outputs on the back of the TV. One i use for the PS3 or Blu Ray Player (yes i know the PS3 plays blu rays!) and the other is for the Sky HD.

How would i connect up the Soundbar, is there such a thing as an HDMI splitter or optical connection??

 

[Cookie Monster]

My kit is in the corner of a rectangular room with settee on right hand wall (facing TV front/ left corner) and it works great. Window and curtains on front wall also. Really shouldn't work.

Made a mistake when i set it up as when i placed mic on included stand it was below the top of the settee back height. Noticed effects were low and tried again. This time i raised the mic to head height about 12 inches higher than the rear of the settee, enabling the rear wall to come into play when running the auto mode. Worked a treat. Perfect now.

Also noticed the rear effects were a little low so i ran the audio section of the THX calibration disc to ensure volume was pretty much the same for all channels. Added 0.5 to rears and now brilliant. Rate this so much higher than my old seperates system.

Has 3 HDMI inputs so you can run player into 1 HDMI, PS3 into another then Sky to TV with Optical or Coaxial for Dolby Digital 5.1.

Genius.

 

[Anonymous]

Good morning everyone, This is my first post on the what hi fi forum . I picked up my new Yamaha ysp-2200 on Thursday and I am loving it , however the set up is doing my head in ….i am normally very good at setting up anything electrical but this has got me stumped… here goes… As per the book … Tv (arc ) hdmi to the arc hdmi on the bar … Sky to hdmi 1 Ps3 to hdmi 2 … All works fine but all I can get is pcm 48 kHz …..i have checked all the output settings so they are on Dolby…last night I almost ebayed it as it was cracking me up ..however this morning I forgot about the hdmi and just used the optical cables from sky & ps3 …bingo “dolby D came up on the display ….i must be doing something wrong but I have tried everything……any suggestions …

 

[grdunn123]

Good morning everyone, This is my first post on the what hi fi forum . I picked up my new Yamaha ysp-2200 on Thursday and I am loving it , however the set up is doing my head in ….i am normally very good at setting up anything electrical but this has got me stumped… here goes… As per the book … Tv (arc ) hdmi to the arc hdmi on the bar … Sky to hdmi 1 Ps3 to hdmi 2 … All works fine but all I can get is pcm 48 kHz …..i have checked all the output settings so they are on Dolby…last night I almost ebayed it as it was cracking me up ..however this morning I forgot about the hdmi and just used the optical cables from sky & ps3 …bingo “dolby D came up on the display ….i must be doing something wrong but I have tried everything……any suggestions …

You need to use the optical (or coaxial if your Sky Box has 1) as well as the HDMI to get DD 5.1 from the Sky box.

 

[Alec]

Hi,

I've had mine a couple of days now. However, you know the several surround "modes" they mention? I can't figure out how you switch between them...

I'm also going to have to keep th esub pretty low fro TV and radio as it has rumbling spikes here and there which is pretty distracting.

 

[Cookie Monster]

Yeh, the menu's are awful. You can flick between sound positions somewhere in the 'options' menu -E.G. 5 Beam, 3 +2 etc. You will need to dig out the instructions though, awfully complicated.

When i ran set-up my sub was 'over boomy' had to decrease Subwoofer Volume. Remember you can adjust bass and sub volume seperately. On any THX disc there is a 'crossover test' use this to ensure that you're sub isnt too loud at the deepest part.

 

[Alec]

Thanks, I hadnt realized about settign bas ans sub separately, ive just been using the bass controls on the handset to taste, as it were.

 

[Cookie Monster]

To save you a little reading you can adjust the sub volume with the 'Channel' button on remote (bottom centre i think). Just cycle through until you come to sub. I ran a THX disc and checked and adjusted surround rears volume and centre so they were around the same level as fronts. ( Whilst doing this the surround channels sound like they are coming from the bar though, unlike when in use).

I have also had a software update through the post on DVD from Yamaha. For once it is worth registering your product. Figured it was worth mentioning. Not sure what it does!

 

[Alec]

Thanks.

Can different sub levels be saved for different inputs?

Do you use very different settings for TV and movies?

 

[Cookie Monster]

Hi al,

You can set the settings however you wish. I found setting on auto set-up worked best.

You can then set channel volume, tone etc as you wish, saving to any of the 3 save settings.

Have found TV and BD to be ok so have not set independant.

 

[Alec]

So I could if I wanted to?

Many thanks.

 

[Anonymous]

hi,

@cookie monster

sorry to derail your thread slighty.. i've notice u mention "THX disc" on a few occassion.. does this disc helped with calibrating your home cinema systems? are these disc available to buy shop/online? i'd google THX disc but the only info i'm getting is a course in Vegas lol.

 

[Jammoe]

the THX optimizer is available on a lot of dvds / blurays.

if you google thx optimizer there should be a list of discs on which it appears.

 

[Jammoe]

http://www.thx.com/consumer/home-entertainment/thx-certified-releases/

(hope it's ok to link to this?)

 

[Anonymous]

http://www.thx.com/consumer/home-entertainment/thx-certified-releases/

(hope it's ok to link to this?)

thank dude.. the link proven very very useful :bigsmile:

 

[Alec]

I'm still not sure what you mean by adjusting the base and sub separately. The +/- button on the remote is marked subwoofer, and it is marked as "subwoofer" (or "SWFR") too.