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Yamaha Aventage RX-A3060 A/V Receiver Review Test Bench

Test Bench

Two channels driven continuously into 8-ohm loads:
0.1% distortion at 159.0 watts
1% distortion at 186.4 watts

Five channels driven continuously into 8-ohm loads:
0.1% distortion at 102.3 watts
1% distortion at 127.1 watts

Seven channels driven continuously into 8-ohm loads:
0.1% distortion at 52.2 watts
1% distortion at 53.6 watts

Analog frequency response in Pure Direct mode:
–0.05 dB at 10 Hz
–0.02 dB at 20 Hz
+0.04 dB at 20 kHz
–2.73 dB at 50 kHz

Analog frequency response with signal processing:
–0.56 dB at 10 Hz
–0.17 dB at 20 Hz
–0.49 dB at 20 kHz
–23.87 dB at 50 kHz

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This graph shows that the RX-A3060’s left channel, from A1 input to speaker output with two channels driving 8-ohm loads, reaches 0.1% distortion at 159.0 watts and 1% distortion at 186.4 watts. Into 4 ohms, the amplifier reaches 0.1% distortion at 228.7 watts and 1% distortion at 294.3 watts.

There was no multichannel input to measure. THD+N from the A1 input to the speaker output was less than 0.008% at 1 kHz when driving 2.83 volts into an 8-ohm load. Crosstalk at 1 kHz driving 2.83 volts into an 8-ohm load was –79.34 dB left to right and –79.41 dB right to left. The signal-to-noise ratio with an 8-ohm load from 10 Hz to 24 kHz with “A” weighting was –106.84 dBrA.

From the Dolby Digital input to the loudspeaker output, the left channel measures –0.02 dB at 20 Hz and –0.39 dB at 20 kHz. The center channel measures –0.01 dB at 20 Hz and –0.36 dB at 20 kHz, and the left surround channel measures –0.02 dB at 20 Hz and –0.39 dB at 20 kHz. From the Dolby Digital input to the line-level output, the LFE channel is +0.12 dB at 20 Hz when referenced to the level at 40 Hz and reaches the upper 3-dB down point at 96 Hz and the upper 6-dB down point at 116 Hz.—MJP

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mhdaniels31's picture
Submitted by mhdaniels31 on January 8, 2017 - 2:11am

This is starting to seem like a regular acurance post a review then no bench test for a week or two I see the graph so someone must have done the work already so why the wait

Bob Ankosko's picture
Submitted by Bob Ankosko on February 3, 2017 - 2:45pm
Apologies for the delay.
mhdaniels31's picture
Submitted by mhdaniels31 on March 18, 2017 - 4:22am

Didn't expect the rx-a3060 to have less power then last years rx-a2050 mind you its not huge but its definitely there and this time yamaha cant blame there protection systems (by the way im a yamaha fan) but its starting to make me wonder if this is the start of the decline of yamaha aventage systems there lower model aventage systems are already showing less power then there V series

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Submitted by JROSEN007 on June 11, 2017 - 5:32am

These receiver companies are beginning to irritate me with this stuff. Yamaha rates this as a 9x150, yet the test bench results show 7x(low 50's)????? Although the costlier $3500 Anthem MRX 1120 tests show 5 channels run in the 70's for wattage when their specs say 5x140 plus 6x60 (based on running 2 channels). Many more examples out there..... I know exact wattage does not necessarily correlate to good sound, but these manufacturers need to rate this stuff accurately. What if the food we ate came with such leeway in listing ingredients or nutritional value???????

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Submitted by Mrsnikoph78 on January 9, 2017 - 8:17am

Ditto - I'd love to see all of the other measurements. It is difficult to compare models without them, and of course I am sure this Yamaha is outstanding.

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Submitted by music first on January 20, 2017 - 7:55am

Hello, I am in the market for one of these receivers and wanted to know your take on the sound quality between the 3060, the Marantz 7011, or the Anthem 1120. Is the 2 channel performance of the Anthem much better than the Yamaha 3060? Thanks for any guidance you might provide.

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Submitted by Philt56 on January 22, 2017 - 8:47pm

I'm confused. You say it supports HDR10 but not Dolby vision. So if I have a bluray player like the Oppo203 which will support both formats in the future and I connect it to the receive. I then use hdmi out from the receiver to a 4k tv that supports both. Are you saying that receiver will not be able to pass thru Dolby vision from the bluray to the tv? I assumed 4k capable receivers would just pass the video through and not have to do any processing or care which HDR format it is.

Am I wrong about this? I've never read anything about 4k receivers caring which HDR is in use.

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Submitted by mhdaniels31 on January 27, 2017 - 4:41am

unless the receiver bluray player and tv all have dolby's hdr chip it will not play dolby vision so you would have to bypass the receiver and plug your new oppo into the tv directly but from my understanding oppo plans to have two hdmi outs so you can use one for audio to the receiver and one to the tv for picture by the way any dolbyvision disc will still have the hdr10 metadata written underneath so you'll still be able to recieve hdr if you chose only do a single cable connection as of now its just streaming services using dolby vision so with audio return it hasnt been a problem yet thats really been adddressed but like you said several companies are going to release dolby vision hdr blurays this year so its your choice how you choose to set up your system but based on tv specs as of this moment(and i do mean the premium models) i would say you would have a really hard time seeing the difference between hdr10 and dolbyvision as of right now so i wouldnt stress so much about it since all uhd discs have the hdr10 metadata including the dolbyvision ones its the rule that was implemented and all uhd discs have to follow it so even if it says its a dolbyvision disc it will also be an hdr10 disc as well maybe it will start to really matter when tvs put out 3000nits of light output and use a 12 bit pannel but as of now the best tvs are only 10bit and just break 1000nits so thats going to make it really hard to tell the difference between dolbyvision and hdr10 now when it comes to streaming online i think thats where it matters most due to dolbys dynamic metadata adjustment based on download speeds which allow it to make quick changes to adjust thats where i see dolbyvision really mattering in the next couple of years

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Submitted by Philt56 on January 27, 2017 - 6:50pm

Ok, I see that now. I guess there was the same issue for passing 3d thru the receiver vs having a second output from the player to the tv.

It was just that I never heard anything about hdr being something the receiver had to support until I read this article. Anthem replied to my email to them and also said the same, adding there wasn't much out there using DV yet.

I'm a software guy and I thought there would be a way to just strip the video signal out of a hdmi input stream and pass it thru unchanged to the output port but I guess the protocol really can't allow you to do that. The receiver does need to look at the audio signal encoding because it really has to decode it and send it to the audio channels. But really, the receiver does not need to do anything with video unless it was going to do stuff like enhance it, but most don't.

Im just disappointed that some time in the future people are going to have go thru this all over again if they want to keep everything centralized to their receiver as a switching unit and minimize cables to the tv.

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Submitted by mhdaniels31 on January 27, 2017 - 4:48am

almost a month and counting you've already posted the new onkyo 1100 that came out today and still no yamaha specs where they that bad for a flagship receiver that you had to hide them the rx-a2050 had decent specs i almost wonder if the 3060 were worse so they werent posted

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