Yamaha 1 Specifications

Browse online or download Specifications for Musical Equipment Yamaha 1. Yamaha 1 Specifications User Manual

  • Download
  • Add to my manuals
  • Print
  • Page
    / 12
  • Table of contents
  • BOOKMARKS
  • Rated. / 5. Based on customer reviews
Page view 0
WWW.AUDIOHOLICS.COM
3.05.05
Introduction
Years from now home theater enthusiasts may
be reading whole articles on the available models
within the Digital Sound Projector category. For
the present though, there exists only the
category-defining Yamaha YSP-1, a brilliant
marriage of compact form with simply amazing
multi-channel synthesis capability.
First Impressions
When we first heard Yamaha's demonstration
of the YSP-1 at the 2005 CES we were fairly
impressed. I remember noting at the time that the
demo space had no roof. So the ambient noise
level that is CES was at its usual 75DB or so. In
fact, that was one of the most striking aspects of
this demo. Instead of trying to construct an
acoustically-correct sound room for their demo
soundstage. Sure the content was the usual
thunder storm or chirping birds in a forest, but the
sounds were definitely not coming from a tinny
little HTIB speaker mounted to the wall. Rather,
the sound was spread out, maybe four feet wide
over my left and right shoulders. And it seemed to
exist, not glued to a speaker source on the wall,
but floating out in the open space behind me. It
was audibly located perhaps a foot forward of the
plywood-wall, open-ceiling juncture.
Two other interesting and new-to-me surround
phenomena seemed to be taking place. First,
because of the open ceiling, CES' ambient crowd-
noise now became the ceiling! The YSP-1's
surround sound did not blend with the crowd-
noise. Instead, the surround image stayed fixed
within the confines of the four-wall plywood room.
Yamaha's crew seemed to have wanted to do the
exact opposite. Construct a topless room with
simple, hard walls made of 1/2" ply. There were
large openings at the two back corners through
which dealers could walk in and hear the demo.
Hmmm... what was up?
And the demo... I had heard demos like this in
years past with any number of electronic-only
methods of phase alteration and what-not that
could throw simple sounds like birds chirping up
and behind you - provided you sat in an exact
sweet spot. So given the high ambient SPL from
the CES crowd-noise and what seemed like a
"parlor trick"-style demo on first listen, I was
kinda-sorta impressed but not overly so.
Then, listening a bit longer while still facing
forward I began to notice the spread of the rear
Yamaha YSP-1 Digital Sound
Projector: A Milestone in
Home Theater History
The promise of a high
performance, simple
hook-up, one-box,
surround-sound
system fulfilled
by Patrick Hart of Audioholics.com
Page view 0
1 2 3 4 5 6 ... 11 12

Summary of Contents

Page 1 - Home Theater History

WWW.AUDIOHOLICS.COM3.05.05IntroductionYears from now home theater enthusiasts maybe reading whole articles on the available modelswithin the Digital S

Page 2 - Specifications

than adequate treble extension within thecontext of TV or movie viewing. Also, the bumpat 6100Hz most probably corroborates well withfrequencies begin

Page 3 - Seamless, Virtual Speakers

Turn to Disc Two from the Standing in the ofMotowndisc and listen to three jam sessions bysome of the world's best musicians. These cutssound lik

Page 4 - The YSP-1 Remote

Yamaha YSP-1 Digital Sound ProjectorSubjective Score CardThe scoring below is based on each speaker doing the duty it is designed for. The numbers are

Page 5 - Digital Sound Projector

WWW.AUDIOHOLICS.COM2reviewSpecificationsYamaha YSP-1 Digital Sound ProjectorYSP-1 Digital Sound ProjectorReview Date 3.5.05Review SummaryOverall Ratin

Page 6

Projecting surround channelsacousticallyThe design premise of Yamaha's DigitalSound Projector is contained in an in-house,training-oriented "

Page 7 - Patrick Hart

WWW.AUDIOHOLICS.COM4reviewdesign philosophy of elegant, simple-of-line,design execution. This philosophy has heldespecially true whenever rare milesto

Page 8

WWW.AUDIOHOLICS.COM 5ItemNamereviewthat the simple two-color button theme plusclever spacing ergonomics play such a subtle,yet vital roll. To the left

Page 9 - Projector Measurements

Sound comes out of the magic box.Surround sound floating in space.Center vocalsound that is up front, natural and clear. Theinitial audio impact of th

Page 10 - WWW.AUDIOHOLICS.COM

The subwoofer level was one that I had to goback and tweak a couple of times. This isbecause you basically don't have any othersignal with which

Page 11 - Summing Up

listening positions. This recommendationworked well so I left the Center setting there.Focal Length Right and Focal Length Leftseemed to be a differen

Page 12 - Subjective Score Card

the overlap helps with effectively implementingthe Beam Tone mode, using the larger pistonarea of the 4.5" drivers in conjunction with thelittle

Comments to this Manuals

No comments