Yamaha RXV673 or Onkyo TXNR515

[Gaz1979]

Afternoon,

I am looking at upgrading my AV amp and am currently thinking of the Yamaha or the Onkyo. Got a budget of about £500. Haven't seen any reviews of the RXV673 but read the 5* review of it's predecessor and read some pretty good reviews of the Onkyo, though have also read that the Onkyo's have a few reliability issues??

I currently have as my speakers the Tannoy V4's as fronts, the V1's as rears and a VC centre (no sub). Amp is currently a Sony STR-DH810. I'm wanting to hook up a CD player to the amp too as I dont have the room for a seperate Hifi set up unfortunately so the amp must be good for playing music along with movie soundtracks.

Any guidance/recommendations would be appreciated.

Cheers.

Gareth.

 

[TheHomeCinemaCentre]

I would opt for the Yamaha - they have gone to town on this model for 2012. We run ours on the KEF T-series in store and I am always checking that it is definitely the 673 that is running them.

 

[Gaz1979]

Cheers Nick,

Would the amp work well with the Tannoys?

 

[TheHomeCinemaCentre]

It will indeed.

 

[GazzyP]

The Yamaha RXA810 seems to be the same price as the RXV673 but is higher up in the range...

Which would be preferable??

 

[gurjitsidhu]

i also seen this. However it seems like the 810 does not have airplay and probably some other features missing from the 2012 range. although it is priced very well. I just cant see many reviews on either of them two tbh.

im trying to decide between an AS500, Onkyo 616 and a 673.....aaaargh!! so hard! lol