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hey everyone this is Jimmy Williams review room now with today's form of home entertainment a lot of people are straying away from tower speakers now it could be that they are big and bulky or the hassle of just running so many wires that makes them a nuisance now did you provide great audio though but for some people they want something simpler today I have one of Yamahas sound decks it's the SRT 1000 priced at 499 dollars retail as of this video and we'll see how it sounds so I'm here to help you make a purchase decision welcome everyone to jim's review room starting with its physical build this fits up to most 55 inch TVs the width of this spans 30 and 3/4 inches wide in 14 and 5/8 from the back to front and it's able to withstand up to 88 pounds of weight now the construction material is dominantly MDF with a beautiful almost brushed aluminum like veneer on top of the front panel includes all of your options the far left glows green indicating what devices are in use but I'll show you all the connections when I rotate to the back very soon now moving to the far right our manual buttons to change your inputs adjust volume and power up and down your unit now moving to the top here Yamaha offers a very convenient cover that eventually exposes the ports from above they're slightly angled upwards for easier connections and better visibility which I rarely ever see on other sound bars or decks or basically in general any other devices I found myself barely moving the TV or the TV stand if I ever need to make changes or add-on connections always underrated and always an afterthought but looking at the connections here themselves this sound deck offers two optical ins four losses audio using a speed of cable one coaxial for digital audio as well and then down to your very traditional here left and right RCA cables in total providing four physical ways of connecting your devices and the last connection is highly beneficial offering a connection to an external subwoofers LFE connection now if you want louder bass or have a subwoofer laying around you can use it here to supplement your experience which I highly and but with all these physical connections mentioned the last one here is bluetooth being built-in now we're starting to see more sound bars and soundex offering bluetooth that way you can play your music with your phone or tablet and able to switch things up when away from your sound bar in general now like all my Bluetooth speakers I left the Yamaha on the first floor and I walked upstairs to the other side of the house here going through several walls in the first floor ceiling of course with my samsung note 4 phone I had zero drops in signal and the music played perfectly fine more on my audio test a little bit later but the one last feature I wanted to discuss in Yamaha offering digital sound projecting now some bars in general struggled to offer that surround sound experience this is how Yamaha simulated surround sound all from this one centralized location now on the front are two woofers and either side directed right at you while on the bottom are two down firing subwoofers for bass and last and this is the projection technology are a total of 8 beam drivers aimed at directing sound to bounce off the wall from different angles in turn simulating that surround sound experience and this segment really leads me into these sound performance and I'll be honest if you were to buy this and very similar to other sound bars when you first plug this in and fire it up at about 50% volume it may sound a bit underwhelming you expected something better considering how much you've recently paid for this thing again like many sound bars after performing my standard test here I increased the volume to about 80 to 90% and that's when the sound deck really shines on the remote control I also bumped this subwoofer or bass here to near maximum and I was in shock typically with sound bars or sound decks you don't get that Rumble due to these small speakers you can say any speaker would achieve this with volumes and you're max however Yamaha does it with clean and deep enough bass and clarity on all other audio frequencies as well now watching movies offers up front and clear center channels for voice depictions while the bass adds to the immersion of something simple as boxes moving around to explosions occurring now for those using this for music again via bluetooth the sound deck is enough to fill up a large room for entertaining and for gamers out there this is a serious boost to your standard built in speakers on the TV but what I want to discuss more in detail is this sound projection now in my testing room measuring sixteen by fourteen feet with one half wall and save moderate open space depending on where you live New York versus let's say Texas or so but this speaker is dependent on the walls to have that surround sound work the yamaha manual states to have this six and a half feet from where sitting the srt can also sit closer to a wall on the right or left side of the room and it doesn't need to be dead smack in the center there are settings actually to accommodate the different positions however the unit would not work if the TV is in the corner of the room per the user manual so just a heads up on that before buying now testing this with movies avatar inception and the incredibles it wasn't as immersive as I would have hoped even manually adjusting these surround right and left channels to be more apparent didn't really do much to encase myself you can say what sound and to be fair I had taken everything apart and brought this upstairs to my studio which measures about eleven by twelve feet with four full walls that sound emotion did improve though not drastically but slightly noticeable nonetheless my tail again for a centralized sound source for those who can't or don't want to go with a traditional receiver or separate speaker setups this is possibly the best centralized sound setup I prefer to date and granted the surround sound isn't as great as I hope it still performs better than other sound bars that I've personally tested though and last to run up the very last few features that you may have questions about there is a Yamaha home theater app that offers an alternative to using the physical controller but more importantly in this app there is a custom room size setting that adjusts on-the-fly now per the manual you can program your TV's remote for the basic like volume up and down empowering often on the unit as well you don't have to use the Yamaha controller exclusively and last if you do utilize an external subwoofer this subwoofer and the SRT 1000 will go off as well so both your personal subwoofer and the Yamaha will both run simultaneously so that's it for my review I hope they helped you in some way if you like my work be sure to add me gyms review room onto Facebook Twitter or Instagram for behind the scenes of work that I do and stop by to say hi as well again I'm Jimmy with James review room you guys take care and I'll see you in the next one bye you