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if you're after a $500 home theater receiver there are plenty of options available to you but for the money one of the best is the Yamaha rxv 479 this receiver offers home theater punch and a truckload of features one of the most interesting is the company's new music cast multi-room system it's coming to almost every Yamaha product in 2016 and it's now in speakers sound bars and receivers music casts lets you play streaming content such as Spotify and Pandora in one room or the whole house it also supports music on your phone or your network and if you're an audiophile it also plays back high res downloads of course the receiver also supports plain old Bluetooth if music isn't your thing then the Yamaha also offers the latest standards including 4k compatibility for up to six HDMI inputs it's not the most powerful app in the world at only 80 watts for five channels but it should power most living room setups unless you have some really hard to drive speakers or want to do more music listening than movie watching the $399 rxv 479 should do the job for most people this is typing Aubrey for cnet.com