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Yamaha is pushing their Hi-Fi engineering ideas to extend into this entry-class network receiver with modern day wireless connectivity and the nostalgia of vinyl with a phono input terminal. The r-n303 is the perfect blend of technology and timeless elegance.
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4.5 out of 5
90.00% of customers are satisfied
5.0 out of 5 stars great so far for my setup using AirPlay
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5.0 out of 5 stars Writing a review after 6.5 years of ownership.
I bought this Yamaha Receiver back in June of 2018. I was a bit surprised to see it still selling new & unchanged after all this time. At the time of purchase I was hoping to find a decent 2 channel stereo receiver at an affordable price. It was intended to replace a Sony V555ES AV Receiver that was way over the top for what I needed to do with it. I wanted to use the Yamaha with my TV for stereo sound and possibly some FM radio. At the time of purchase I paid $249.00 which I thought was a good deal. For the better part of five years I used it exactly as intended with no issues at all. I had no luck setting up the wifi connection, the process is an over complicated pain in the ass procedure. I hooked it up via Ethernet just so I could keep the unit updated. Bluetooth connection was simple enough and occasionally I'd stream music I had on my phone. Since I don't watch a ton of tv the receiver didn't get used very much. However about two years ago I started to utilize some of the features the Yamaha had. I downloaded the MusicCast app and was able to use it to connect the receiver to the wifi. I reactivated my Sirius radio account and also began using Spotify Premium. I discovered some of my local radio stations are included with the Net Radio and sound so much better going that route. I hooked up a CD player to listen to discs and upgraded the Dayton Audio speakers I had been using, with some better Sony speakers and also hooked up my vintage Advent speakers I've had for years. Sound was very good. I am finally getting a good bit of use from the Yamaha, it's almost like I just bought it.
4.0 out of 5 stars An R-N303 Odyssey
I had my eye on this Yamaha R-N303BL network stereo receiver for some years. I wanted it to connect my TV (running a Roku dongle), to a pair of HiFi speakers and to my DVD player. I am not interested in 5.1 or 7.1 surround sound, so this R-N303 seemed perfect. When it went on sale just after Xmas 2023, I bought one. On the whole, I am satisfied with it. But in hindsight, I wish I'd talked with the Yamaha customer service staff first, and I might have made a different choice.My key disappointment is that this receiver isn't really built to handle TV input, as was pointed out to me by a Yamaha rep. In fact, she told me that if I wanted TV, I should have bought a true AV receiver (like the RX-V385 or something from their Avantage series). And that is true despite what the advertising blurbs from Yamaha and posted on Bolo say ("Optical and coaxial Audio inputs for TV,” “Optical TV Input,” etc. etc.). Also, the description of Connector Type here on Bolo erroneously specifies “HDMI.” But the R-N303 receiver does NOT feature any HDMI jacks at all. What it does have are optical and coax jacks (both of which have lower bandwidth than true HDMI). That lack should have been a dead giveaway to me for limited TV capability (but I was still on my learning curve when I purchased it). Now, my DVD player was built in 2006 and has true HDMI output. I connected it’s HDMI out line to my Samsung TV of about 2012 vintage, which has true HDMI input. That left the optical & coax lines. Following Web directions (from Whathifi’s “Coaxial vs optical vs HDMI” site, & Yamaha’s “R-N602 Features“ site), I connected my TV’s Audio output to the R-N303’s optical input, and my DVD player’s audio output to the R-N303’s coaxial input. Relative to true HDMI, signal resolution has been lost, I’m sure. So this set-up is not ideal but it works pretty good. And it does what I want, which is to listen to TV on a good set of HiFi speakers (Polk Audio Signature Elite ES15 Bookshelf Speakers, rated at 100W RMS for 2 channels & therefore matched perfectly to the 100W RMS output of the R-N303).It was not easy to connect to my Wi-Fi network. I tried the “Manual” connection about 10 times and never could get it to work. On my 3rd attempt to use the WPS connection mode (which uses a WPS button on my router), it worked. Another Yamaha rep told me that the selling point of the R-N303 was that it was easiest to connect & control using a smart phone. Sorry, not interested in that (plus it made me wonder, if it were true, what was missing with the Yamaha remote?) Anyway, once the hand-shake was made using the WPS connection method, it holds permanently. (Note that I cannot comment on the Bluetooth functionality because my system does not use Bluetooth at all.)One other thing that puzzles/bothers me: I have to crank the R-N303 up to 40% audio level to reach a normal listening level, which seems high to me. A Yamaha rep told me that this is because the R-N303’s volume controls are set to a log scale, because supposedly this makes volume adjustment easier at normal listening levels. Go figure. But that’s what I was told.A couple of positive points: This morning, the R-N303 told me on its digital readout that it needed an update, so I clicked “Approve” & it updated, then asked me to manually turn it off then on, and all is great again. Also, this morning I was trying to listen to an Ornette Coleman Birthday Broadcast on the radio, so I decided to try to tune it in on the R-N303. Without so much as digging through the 57-page manual, it was fantastically easy to find: Select Net Radio, then Station Type (College”), then an alphabetic search backwards till I came to WKCR and bing! it’s been playing all day now.On the other hand, searching through the list of music on my network computer is VERY slow: the R-N303 can only buffer about 6-7 song titles before it pauses to fetch more from my network computer, then it comes back with another 6-7 song titles. So that is VERY slow. You’d think Yamaha would allocate more memory to such a simple yet vital search function.In retrospect, I think I’d been happier if I’d saved my pennies for another year, then sprung for a true AV receiver, as one Yamaha rep advised me. As far as that goes, the RX-V385 would not have worked for me because it only has Bluetooth but not Wi-Fi and my network runs on Wi-Fi; plus it’s only 70W RMS for 2 channels. That means I’d have bought the entry level RX-A2A Avantage, which can drive 2 channels at 100W RMS, has both Bluetooth & Wi-Fi, and boasts 7 HDMI jacks in & 1 HDMI jack out. But it retails at $999.95 or almost 3 times the $349.95 price tag of the R-N303! That would have taken me another 2 years to save up for! But IMHO it seems to be a better receiver all the way around.Anyway, as I say, this R-N303 does do the job for me. But I advise others to look into it carefully & carefully evaluate what you want, before purchasing one.
Amplificador que deja ver la diferencia de música en general y la música en Alta Definición (Hi-Fi)
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Bom custo benefício
o som é otimo mesmo usando streaming.Correspondeu às expectativasRecomendo
Calidad
Exelente
Amplificador A-S 301
Amplificador muito boa qualidade, excelente só não dou 5 estrelas porque não tem retorno para uso com equalizador
Não Permite/Não Conecta Equalizador Grafico.
-Bom Produto, porém Não Atendeu o meu objetivo que era Utilizar um Equalizador Grafico., ou seja : Não é possível conectar e funcionar um Equalizador Grafico.-Quanto aos demais 'Funções Vintage', OK. Faltou Entrada/Saída para Equalizador Gráfico.
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YAMAHA R-N303BL Stereo Receiver with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth & Phono
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