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Available to audition in their own Lygon st Showroom. These are a speaker of remarkable presence and beauty. They are highly capable of presenting the music in a natural and completely unfettered manner. Properly powered it doesn't matter what the volume is, they retain their particular quality at low volume and can very nearly do PA type sound pressure levels while remaining tonally consistent throughout. A remarkable performance envelope.

I fell in love with the spiritual and physical precursor to this speaker being the NS1000 of the 1980's, indeed I still have clients from that era who bought those speakers back then from me and feed them a diet of new amplification and sources every 15 years or so. These NS5000 speakers are better, like a new Lexus is better than my old Corolla.

The official Yamaha NS5000 web page

StereoNet on the Yamaha NS5000

Soundstage Australia on the Yamaha NS5000

The Absolute Sound on the Yamaha 5000 system

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A beautifully finished tall floorstanding loudspeaker built like a high end musical instrument. These are the newest release incorporating the Yamaha harmonious design principle wherein all the drive units are made of the same material being a mix of high tech zylon and original Spruce pulp.

Yamaha NS2000A loudspeaker official site

"Soundstage Australia" on the Yamaha NS2000 The Manager of Yamaha Audio Japan who runs the design team for the loudspeakers came to visit us at Carlton Audio Visual and I made this little video of him discussing the inception of the Ns2000a. His English is a little broken but was very interesting:

 

 

 

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This is a true do-it-all unit. DAB, streaming, phono stage and a plethora of digital and analogue inputs. Not the power and authority of the other units in the Yamaha RN range but still relatively grunty for the price point. 

This unit finds itself in a price point with the Rotel A11 which is as highly featured but is another Japanese designed work horse stereo amp. The Yamaha gets a real vintage look to it though with all its knobs and dials. 

Come in and test out the RN600A today. We are happy to plug it in with a couple of sets of speakers as well.

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Have your cake and eat it with a Yamaha Receiver born again for the third decade of the 21st Century … the RN2000 is going to be very much in demand. In some ways this hearkens back to the Receiver wars of the seventies where the likes of Yamaha Marantz Sansui and Hitachi made increasingly higher powered and more heavily buttoned AM FM receivers that became the battleships of the marketplace. This RN2000 is more of a Heavy Cruiser than a Yamato class product though ... Like the Heavy Cruisers of the Japanese Navy in the early forties, the RN2000 is outstandingly useful and versatile with a remarkable number of functions and high performance in a single chassis. Unlike the mad flagship battleships they proved to be tough and largely survived the awful depredations of the Pacific war until sunk as target practice in 1946.

This RN2000 is really nice though, actually a straightforward combination of the highly acclaimed AS1200 stereo amplifier with a high grade multifunction streaming engine and DAC. Come and listen to it through sweet natured loudspeakers. The FM section by the way is absolutely fantastic, hearkening back to the Yamaha T7 tuner of yore that is considered a reference for analogue broadcast quality.

Yamaha RN2000 Official site

"What Hi-Fi" on the Yamaha RN2000

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We now have these on regular demo. These headphones are hand manufactured in Yamaha’s Kakegawa factory in Japan.

The product feel is just exceptional, they appear aesthetically to be fragile and delicate but when you pick them up the first tactile impression is how incredibly light they are and the second is just how incredibly strong they are. 

If you know your Tolkein then I would say that these have been crafted in Mithril by some Elven agency of artisanship.

Yamaha have returned to planar magnetic headphone design with the YH-5000SE and listening makes a stunning first impression. They havnt bothered to compromise with sweetness and light but have gone for a maximum injection of music approach. 

These are like having a pair of NS1000 loudspeakers strapped to your ears. We got to try the first pair in Australia and at first I thought they were a bit affronting and perhaps too actinic for the tempered head fi market here..

The problem is that I missed them almost immediately. I want to hear all the music. I want to know the mood of the singer and what the guitarist did the night before. These headphones can do that for me.

Yamaha YH5000SE official site

"What Hi Fi" on 50 years to design the Yamaha YH5000SE

"Sound Advice" on the Yamaha YH5000SE

"Major Hi-Fi" on the Yamaha YH5000SE

"Headphone Dungeon" on the Yamaha YH5000SE

"Head-Fi.org" on the Yamaha YH5000SE

And here is Major Hi Fi with a Video Review on the YH5000Se Headphones ... his all time favourite apparently! Learn More

A simple no fuss design for a solid turntable in the entry level range. 

Unlike other entry level offerings we have, this one has a removable head shell. Handy for those who like to quickly swap cartridges.

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Big chunky wireless Headphones. Some people will love these because of the way they fit over the ears, others will find them too cumbersome and awkward. If that's you, you should look at the YH-L700A. 

But no doubt these are a fantastic sounding Headphone for the price. And of course having the Bluetooth, wireless, active noise-cancellation is very welcome.

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A set of wireless earbuds by the experts at Yamaha. Sounding better than the apple earbuds but not going to break the bank. These are a nice option to make your ears feel loved.

Super easy to use with voice activation, gaming mode, double device bluetooth connection and dual on each earbud for clearer calls.

These come in a range of colours generally we keep the black, grey and beige in stock but we can get the others. Please call us to check specific colour availability.

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This is part of a new wave of retro practical good sounding stereo receivers that are finding a place in homes as practical high fidelity devices. In a way they are a riposte to the exuberant age of surround sound amplifiers that have dissapointed purchasers by offering features over quality.

This new model RN800A ticks a lot of boxes with a decent phono input and a range of practical analogue and digital inputs, including that contemporary cherry being the HDMI EARC input. It is a very substantial device with classic Yamaha build quality and represents excellent value for money.

 Yamaha RN800A official website 

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Every now and then one of our manufacturers comes out with a product that gives me hope that innovation has not died and been forsaken in the cause of conformity and conservatism.

On the 5000 series Yamaha designers were let off the lead with no constraints, so it is no surprise that the headphone amplifier built to match the remarkable YH5000 head fi is a fantastic no compromise design.

I absolutely love the way it has two toroidal power supplies protruding gasometer style from the casing. One power supply for digital and one for analogue circuitry. I love the double rectangle footprint and the anti-vibration construction ... it feels like it has miniature Ohlins suspension for its five feet.

It is my great hope that Yamaha will bring out a range of high fidelity components built along similar principles.

 Link to Carlton Audio Visual YH5000 page 

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A very good value little streamer that sounds much better than its price tag. Detailed and musical. Convenient and intuitive. Everything you want in a streamer. 

These are quickly becoming our go-to streamers. And we recently did an A to B with the Sonos streamer...there is a reason these are very popular.

Try one out for yourself.

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The Yamaha NS-800A speakers have just landed at Carlton Audio Visual. We've had them running in and stretching their wings in the main demo space.

The NS-800A feature the same innovative cabinet design as the top of the range NS-5000 speakers. That is to say that instead of packing the insides of the cabinet with acoustically absorbing material like foam, Yamaha uses their 'absorber tubes'. These don't completely dampen the sound rather they keep a freshness and pep to the music.

Even without being fully run-in, these speakers are exciting, forward and immeadiate. They don't quite have all the pep of the NS-5000s but that's to be expected given that the NS-5000s are nearly triple the price.

They also don't feature the Zylon drivers of the NS-5000s having instead a pulp (paper) mix in the driver. The Zylon evidently works to give the higher range of speakers extra punch and attack.

But the lineage is still clear and if you love that Yamaha pure and fast sound, you're going to love these.

What I've also noticed is unlike a lot of bookshelf speakers, the mid-range is still quite present with the NS-800a. They are quite consistent throughout the frequency sweep and don't show the characteristic hole in the mids which plagues many a lesser set of bookshelves.

You won't be dissapointed by their bass either. Rich and full. Surprising for a bookshelf speaker, even one like this, that is on the larger side. But more importantly articulation and attack are not lost in the bass either. This can be another pitfall of less efficient bookshelves that find it difficult to articulate bass lines and give you more wooliness than crispness.

 

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A beautiful CD player that looks the timeless classic that it sounds. Crispiness and a neutral truthfulness to the sound are its sonic characteristics.

It's also an SACD player with XLR balanced out which for this price bracket is a real bonus. Generally, one has to spend upwards of $5000 for a half decent SACD player.

Sonically this is a very polite and neutral device, slow but smooth in mechanical operation and beautifully made.

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Another in the new Aventage flagship line of Surround Receivers from Yamaha. This one is just one below the almighty RX-A8A which is their top of the range. And it boasts the same power 2 chanels driven as the RX-A8A at 150W. As opposed to the RX-A8A, it has 9 chanels and not the full 11.

A hefty amp to get your blood pressure up and experience the real thrill of Home Cinema.

Check out all its specs at Yamaha's official website

 

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Any real Hi Fi freak loves a good amplifier and anyone whose been in the game since the eighties will have had something to do with a Yamaha product in their time. The AS1200 could have been made anytime in the last forty years and it will still be a recognisably excellent design in another forty years time.

Classic stuff and part of Yamaha's well funded push back into the discerning stereo marketplace.

Official US site on the AS1200 

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Every now and then you get a piece of high fidelity that oozes high class as soon as you touch it, The Yamaha 5000 series preampifier and power amplifier have this quality in spades and so does this the highest ranging CD Player in the range of Yamaha high fidelity kit.

In the trade we can go a long way on the tactility of a product as a real assessment of its build quality, That and the less than minor matter of one's reaction to a component's particular sound quality are simply something that can never be realised via internet shopping. this is a device that begs to be individually auditioned.

There is definetly a Rolls Royce feel to this device and it immediately reminds me of the original Yamaha Centennial CD Player the no compromise CDX10000 that was released in 1987 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Yamaha music products.

The CDS3000 is also an external DAC that is a 32 bit device ...

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In pursuit of the intangible musical quality that breathes life into high-fidelity audio, the world's largest sound company presents the C-5000 pre-amplifier. From the concert stage to the home, Yamaha has drawn on its vast musical history to create an instrument capable of faithfully reproducing every nuance and emotion in the performance. Perfectly balanced signal transmission Floating balanced pre-amp Symmetrical, folding-book circuit design Low-impedance design Rigid and precise design Dual Toroidal Transformer

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We have the first pair of these on display in Australia. We only had to pledge one of our children to indentured servitude for life in Japan to acquire them, They are beautiful and much easier to live with than an annoying child.

"SoundStageAustralia.com" on the Yamaha NS3000 

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This is the first model in the audiophile orientated Aventage series. Expect a crisp up front sonic presentation with good durability.

Playing the unit in our dem room reveals an impactive tonality with plenty of upper mid presence that potentially adds sparkle and engagement to a sound track. It's a matter for speaker matching and personal taste as to weather this appropriate for your your system.

Uniquely for a very complex Theatre Receiver product Yamaha are offering a five year warranty through registration for their Avantage series units.

They have gone for an unusual piano gloss finish that is a touch Yamaha Grand.

One loves the central volume knob as being quintessentially functional.

Official manufacturer's site for the RXA2A 

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