YAMAHA YSP-1 SOUND BAR Surround speaker system Aluminum Cabinet

YAMAHA YSP-1 SOUND PROJECTOR:

PRICE SLASHED !!!!!!

Works perfect.

Truly DOES, what it claims to do. It seems like somebody is playing a trick on you…it works THAT well.
You will swear that you are listening to a full 5.1/7.1 surround system. It doesn’t kind of, sound like one…It SIMPLY DOES ! I would not have believed it, if I had not heard it for myself. Please read the review below.

Easily fills mid size, and even large rooms with plenty of sound. I tried it in my 16x18 room & at 1/3 volume it was louder than I like it( I like it pretty loud), and super clean sound. I was shocked/very impressed at the output of this unit.

 Single-box, high performance, 42 digital amplifier, surround sound system
 Very easy, 30-minute hook-up; interconnects only.
 Decor-friendly, highest spouse-acceptance factor system
 Plays impressively loud and clean
 Quality construction, exemplary fit and finish
 Excellent value vs performance

 It is an Audio Preamp/Processor which integrates with analog or digital video sources. The YSP-1 hooks up to both digital and analog audio sources. Dolby Digital and DTS are built-in for movies while Dolby Pro Logic II and DTS Neo 6 can transform two-channel music into five channel surround. The number of inputs has been kept to a bare minimum but, as will be seen, they will support the most common configurations for which this unit will likely be used. This includes the capability to hook up to a DVD player, a cable or satellite receiver box (analog audio, digital video), an analog or digital TV and even analog audio from a VCR. Then there is the ever-present aux digital input which can be used for a digital cable TV, digital satellite TV or game console.
 It h a s forty-two channels of digital amplification. The YSP-1 has forty 2.5 watt digital amplifiers, each tied directly to its own 1.25" transducer within the array. There are also two 20-watt digital amplifiers which deliver power to two 4.5" mid-woofers.
 The YSP-1 has a proprietary (1 Ltd) digital signal allocation and "beam steering" audio processor chip. This chip directs both the appropriate channel content and the amount of power given each of the 40 array-transducers so that speaker groupings of individual channel beams can be "steered" toward different locations within the listening space. All of the transducers are used for ALL of the 5 different steered channels - they are NOT used as subsets; i.e. some for each beam only.
 It is a button-push configurable two-cha nnel, three channel, five-channel and three LCR channel + 2 channel surround-capable speaker system. Forty-two transducers total; two 4.5" left and right front mid-woofers on either side of the master array of 40 approximately 1.25" diameter drivers. The crossover frequency of the two 4.50" left-right mid-woofer drivers is switchable to 80Hz, 100Hz or 120Hz to match with an outboard subwoofer for which a low-level output is provided. The mid-woofers' handoff frequency to the 1.25" forty-driver array takes place at 350Hz (1000 Hz in Corner-location mode).
 It is the most decor-friendly, highest spouse-acceptance-factor, true surround audio system ever designed. With the debut of the Yamaha YSP-1, its product execution, from the quality of materials, to the stunningly elegant industrial design, marks a high-point for performance vs. value in a category-defining product.

Great review:
From the review above:
“The Yamaha YSP-1's Digital Sound Projection is totally different and much more immersive and believable than I've heard from anything less the most precisely placed and calibrated "traditional" circle-of-surround set-ups. It is morereal ; and truly three dimensional in its ability to convincingly envelop the listener.
Center channel dialog can be tuned within the software to portray an actor's natural timbre without chesty upper bass frequency boost often heard with horizontal D'Appolito-style center channel speakers. Overdubbed voice insertions can more easily be detected within a movie scene because the voice will often exhibit the hooded mouth-too-close-to-the-microphone characteristic of a hastily added section of dialog. Conversely, a vocal recorded in the natural environment of the scene will be heard as such.
This natural, out-of-the-box effect is usually only heard from very flat-response loudspeakers which also have a very smooth polar response envelope. The YSP-1's center-channel articulation prowess, properly tuned, is among the most naturally detailed I've heard. (Dr. Hooley: This is likely related to the almost spherical waves emitted by the centre channel when its focal length is set negative , e.g. to say ~-0.5 to -1.5m.)
The naturalness of the YSP-1's center channel sound is carried through to all other channels in equal measure. That it may falter to an extent when trying to portray left-right information, widely splayed out within an overly large, corner placement environment serves only to outline one of the sole limitations of this marvelous machine. (Perhaps, a bit more tweaking could be done with respect to Image Location?)
The ease with which the YSP-1 can engulf the listener in a three-dimensional, immersive environment, especially with a very typical, acoustically live room is head-and-ears above most wall or ceiling-mounted surround speaker systems. Women notice this honest portrayal-of-naturalness difference immediately. Plus there are no ugly protuberances adorning their walls or sound attempting to be hidden within the walls. No ugly wires either.
That the YSP-1 easily and handily out-performs the popular cube systems in the same price ballpark isn't the point. Rather, Yamaha's Digital Sound Projector hopefully marks the first, almost perfectly executed volley in a new consumer electronics category - Digital Sound Projectors. Bravo!”

What’s Included:
YSP-1
Cord
Remote (not original, but upgraded Yamaha remote, specifically for these units, Controls it perfectly)

I have conservatively rated this a "7", although it's probably actually an "8"(look at the pics!). I always rate my gear very conservatively.

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Buy from a seller with over a decade, of perfect feedback with many transactions.

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