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if you thought that buying an inexpensive receiver meant you are buying a box of loose bolts with no features that could actually break your speakers then hopefully this Yamaha receiver can help change your mind at 280 dollars Street the Yamaha rxv 379 isn't cheap but it's at the low end of the scale and offers a lot of usable features for the price first of all there's Bluetooth so you can listen to the music on your phone and then there's compatibility with the next TV standards including 4k support with encryption technology hdcp 2.2 while this is not as much of an issue right now it will offer some degree of future proofing this is a 5.1 channel receiver which offers most surround standards including Dolby true HD and DTS master audio it also has 4 HDMI inputs with 4k pass-through the design is fairly minimalist but I do love that instead of the terrible input selection knob or the Wheel of Fortune you might call it because you don't know what you're going to get next it does have dedicated shortcuts on the front sound quality is where this receiver is at and with a decent set of home cinema speakers you can get cinema like sound in your home music quality is also surprisingly good even with bluetooth for most home set ups a $300 receiver is probably all you'll need and for the money the Yamaha rxv it's 379 others pretty much all that you'll need especially if you have an Apple TV or other streaming box in your system already this is ty Pendlebury for cnet.com