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Yamaha YSP-1400 sound projector with Bluetooth 5.1 and App Control (Electronics)

Customer Review

The YSP 1400 is my first Yamaha sound projector.
I've heard about these parts quite a lot and now I finally wanted to test times, but these things are good.
I was about to order the Promised YSP2200 because these but offers more features and overall quality and certainly better.
But when I was able to get the YSP1400 for just 300 euros, I do not have long thought and slammed.
The YSP 1400 is after all one of the latest Sound bars Yamaha purely from her Year.

I was skeptical regarding even before the construction of two things.:

1. Are the built-in feet "mini-subwoofer" in order to give rise to some extent mood in movies?
2. It creates the YSP really to produce reasonably surround effects, although my bed in the back is to the wall?

Short note I still have that my sound system Harman Kardon SB10 Soundbar a 3.1 was previously (incl. Subwoofer favorable). The part was hanging on a Pioneer Slim Receivers (S300).
I was so actually getting quite satisfied, only one thing bugged me beastly:
In the evening, when children and wife were in bed, I could never particularly high turn up the sound. This meant that the dialogues in movies were partly absolutely incomprehensible. Since no revving the center channel, including turning the Dynamic Range Control helped on the receiver or even the night mode brought no remedy.

I hear music the way through the sound system as well as not - therefore this is not a criterion for evaluating the YSP 1400 here. Who wants to listen to music in good quality, is eh not so resort to a Sound Projector solution but to bring tower speaker or good compact speakers - the part is designed to give movies the appropriate atmosphere.

Ok - unpacking the 4,5 kilo part and connected afloat.
HDMI ports are in contrast to the 2200 YSP no, so the new HD sound formats are ever fell.
That's too bad, but did not bother me so much because I heard in my 18 square meter room also previously with the HK SB10 solution hardly any difference between HD-audio formats and DTS sound good.

The YSP needs ultimately only used two cables:
1. Power Cable
2. supplied optical digital cable - that can be connected directly to the TV, so everything is somehow directed to the TV is (so the BD player or receiver or game console) reproduced through the YSP1400.
Hook this: 5.1 Surround Sound or PCM is only about (ie reproduced stereo because the TV converts the signal first in stereo). Only through the internal cable receiver from my Panasonic plasma directly 5.1 sound on the Yamaha was headed.
That was for me therefore unusable immediately because I want to use the YSP primarily for Blu Ray movies.

The better solution is:
YSP 1400 directly connected to the BD player via an optical (or digital coax cable).
In addition, for example, television receivers or game console with additional digital cable attached to the YSP.
So you always have the direct sound of player, even if you have to switch back and forth between the devices (but is due to the simple remote control of YSP1400 no problem).

By micro calibrations as it is present in the YSP2200 does not exist in the YSP1400.
There are three standard beam modes, depending on where you sit or even how to sit on the soundbar.
The individual channels (front left and right, center, rear right unte left, sub) are still in each case adjusted by the volume - that's it then but.
So you could tell more and more that was saved at the YSP1400 just there and there compared to the more expensive YSPs Yamaha (no HDMI, no calibration, no additional sub etc).

What ultimately counts, however, is the sound coming from the 1 meter wide part .... and .... is really good-
of course you have to remember that you have invested no 1000 Euros here.
In terms of space the YSP1400 beats my previous HK SB10 clearly.
Surround effects are due to my not suitable seating position (sofa in the back on the wall) as expected hardly to (so I can from behind the left or right to hear any effects).
It must always be clear to everyone that the premises and the position has to be very perfect, even with the excellent Yamaha Sound Projectors to hinzukriegen a 5.1 or even 7.1 sound.
What the YSP 1400 but creates: The sound is very deep and far into the room and sometimes we hear it from the left or right some sounds and effects that you had not seen before with a pure front-System - the shows that it is then not dealing here with a standard 2.1-Soundbar but really 5.1 channels are controlled.

To test the "Mini-Subs" in the feet enough, I have a test basis even my old subwoofer in addition connected to the YSP 1400 (so you can push of a button back and forth between the built-in mini-subs in the legs and an extra connected , large Sub).
Clear have the Mini-Subs in the feet their limits and never come so low down as an extra sub but me personally in my rather small room the rich stand-Subs the YSP 1400 surprisingly completely from what was pleased (another part less needed).

I would like to highlight the two functions "Unilevel" and "Clear Voice" (the latter is brand new and has even YSP2200 I do not), because this really solve my problem described above with the "evening-look".
Clear voice actually raises the voices in movies much, but without increasing the additional effects from the center at the same time (the problem was with my old 3.1 system).
And Unilevel brings the complete tone down or in unison such an extent that explosions no longer so loud sound compared to the quiet scenes. Certainly missing here then something (can not conjure Yamaha) the clarity and dynamics as with deactivated circuit, but nevertheless the atmosphere in the movies is still well preserved and significantly better than with normal sound from the TV speaker.

I will YSP1400 which I have placed before my 50 inch plasma above the pedestal, so keep (the infrared signals from the TV remote control directs the YSP1400 which now covers the TV sensor, by the way to the TV and that too when the YSP is in standby - consumption by the way really only specified 0.5 watts).
My old HK SB10 soundbar and subwoofer as well as my Pioneer AV receiver I have therefore now replaced by a single new part - the YSP1400. So I now have more space for other equipment (sometime PS4 or the new Xbox), several cable less and the operation of the devices in the film look is even easier, because the YSP1400 is not overloaded with dozens of functions or buttons.

I can YSP1400 therefore recommend everyone wants to have good spatial sound from just one, priced fairly cheap device without many complications or settings.
The YSP1400 which is the cheapest 5.1 Sound Projector by Yamaha, offers perhaps not quite as much equipment, technology and settings as the big brothers YSP 2200/3200/4200, but it also costs less and is less complicated accordingly. On the other hand, the tonal qualities are still not bad at all (Yamaha halt).

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