Our Overall Score:
8.8/10
Thanks for stopping by to read our YAMAHA RX-V685 7.2 Wireless AV Receiver review. Here we’ll take a look at a range of the key features, benefits, positives and negatives to help you decide if YAMAHA RX-V685 7.2 Wireless AV Receiver is right for you, or if you should be looking for a different product in the HiFi systems and speakers category.
Latest price search at Currys PC World: £629.95
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There are many factors that we consider when buying, and reviewing products like YAMAHA RX-V685 7.2 Wireless AV Receiver. In this review we will take the 4 main considerations and look at how they stack up against the competition, be it other products from the same brand, Yamaha or alternative products in the HiFi systems and speakers category. The 4 factors that we’re going to explore now are, Quality, Price, Reviews and the overall score.
Quality of YAMAHA RX-V685 7.2 Wireless AV Receiver
YAMAHA RX-V685 7.2 Wireless AV Receiver scores 8.5/10 for quality in our review.
Quality is a very important factor when it comes to buying any product, but it’s particularly important with HiFi systems and speakers. It’s never going to be easy to get a real feel for the quality of a product without being able to see or even test it.
This is why it’s so important to read lots of customer reviews, where you will be able to get an understanding from many of the customers of YAMAHA RX-V685 7.2 Wireless AV Receiver, just how good it is, in terms of quality. Take your time to read through the reviews looking for specific comments about the quality. It’s worth spending time looking for reviews from customers that have owned the product for some time as that will give you a really good idea of the product’s durability.
Our best advice for checking out the quality is reading reviews, but also use some of these to help you get an idea of the quality:
- Price: The old saying “you get what you pay for” is a good indication as to how good quality you should expect from a product.
- Specification: Check out the specs for YAMAHA RX-V685 7.2 Wireless AV Receiver and see how they compare to your expectations and other products.
- Brand: Some brands are known for delivering amazing quality products, it’s a case of trying to find the Rolex equivalent for HiFi systems and speakers, but at a realistic and reasonable price.
- Previous experience: Have you ever owned any HiFi systems and speakers? Think about your experience of the product and how good it was. What brand was it? How much was it? What was it made from? All of these can help you when considering your options.
Price analysis
YAMAHA RX-V685 7.2 Wireless AV Receiver scores 8.4/10 for price in our review.
Price is normally the most important factor when considering a purchase. Especially when you’re shopping online, it’s really easy for us to shop around now so we can easily compare prices of the same product against many retailers with just a few clicks. In fact here at Review Pros we do that leg work for you, by comparing many different retailers to find you the best price. But price is also a big factor for which product we choose too, not just which retailer.
To give an example, the most expensive product that we found in the HiFi systems and speakers category was £20000.00, whilst the cheapest we found was £9.97 so there’s a significant variance in the prices that different products are available for. For this reason we always recommend that you set yourself a budget before you spend too much time shopping around for a product. It’s easy to get carried away and buying a much more expensive product than you really need, but setting a budget will help to avoid this.
As part of our price analysis we’re going to break the price of YAMAHA RX-V685 7.2 Wireless AV Receiver down and compare it and analyse it in the following ways.
- Compare to other products in the same category
- Compare to other products from the same brand
- Compare to other products that fit both of the above (the same category and the same brand)
Prices of products in the HiFi systems and speakers category
Here we’re going to look at the prices you can expect to pay for products from the HiFi systems and speakers category. we’re opted to use Currys PC World for this comparison, as they offered the most competitive prices for YAMAHA RX-V685 7.2 Wireless AV Receiver.
To start with, we look at the average price of a product in the HiFi systems and speakers category. This was £283.44 from the 326 products we found in that category. So YAMAHA RX-V685 7.2 Wireless AV Receiver actually comes in above average at £629.95.
We then looked at the most expensive product in the category, which was £20000.00 and the least expensive, which was £9.97. In total we found that of the 326, 18 were more expensive and 307 were less expensive, some products may have then had exactly the same price as YAMAHA RX-V685 7.2 Wireless AV Receiver.
Prices of products from Yamaha
Next up, we wanted to look at products from the brand, Yamaha. Again we looked at the average price you can expect to pay for a product from Yamaha, which was £315.04 of the 22 products we found. So YAMAHA RX-V685 7.2 Wireless AV Receiver price is above average for the brand.
The cheapest product we managed to find from Yamaha was £109.00 with the most expensive coming in at £629.95.
Prices of products from Yamaha and in the HiFi systems and speakers category
Then finally on our price analysis we wanted to dig a little deeper by looking at products from Yamaha that sit specifically within the HiFi systems and speakers category.
For this we found that the average price was £396.20, making YAMAHA RX-V685 7.2 Wireless AV Receiver at £629.95 actually above average price.
Then we looked at the highest priced item that falls under this criteria, the price of this was £629.95 with the lowest priced item being £149.00. In total there were 0 items that were more expensive and 8 that was less expensive.
Reviews of YAMAHA RX-V685 7.2 Wireless AV Receiver
YAMAHA RX-V685 7.2 Wireless AV Receiver scores 9.6/10 for customer reviews in our review.
Perhaps one of the most important steps in choosing a product that you’re going to be buying online, is reading reviews. The more reviews you can read the better. Take your time to look through a range of different reviews, both good and bad as these will really give you the best insight into how good YAMAHA RX-V685 7.2 Wireless AV Receiver is.
Overall score
YAMAHA RX-V685 7.2 Wireless AV Receiver scores 8.8/10 overall in our review.
This part of the review takes the various scores for quality, price and customer reviews and combines them in order to provide you with one simple score to help you determine how good the product is overall. This score can then easily be compared to other products and be used as a benchmark.
There are of course many alternative products from Yamaha so feel free to take a look at some of the alternatives, but in the meantime check out the many reviews for YAMAHA RX-V685 7.2 Wireless AV Receiver by clicking the View Reviews button at the bottom of your screen.
Additional information: YAMAHA RX-V685 7.2 Wireless AV Receiver
- Brand: Yamaha
- Model Number: RXV685
- Output power: Up to 150 W per channelWiFi / Bluetooth / Apple AirPlayUSB / Coaxial / Optical / RCADolby Atmos / DTS:XDolby Vision / HDR support with 4K pass-through
- EAN: 4957812627696
- Description: Top features:- Get the perfect sound for your room thanks to the YPAO microphone- Enjoy music throughout your home with MusicCast multi-room functionality- Hear every detail with Hi-Res Audio compatibility- Control your music with your voice, with Amazon AlexaGet the perfect sound for your roomEnjoy crisp, clear, enveloping surround sound with the Yamaha RX-V685 7.2 Wireless AV Receiver. Getting the perfect sound signature for your room is made easy with the YPAO microphone. Place it where you’re sitting and switch it on, and the Yamaha RX-V685 will automatically tune the audio to suit the acoustics of your living room, fully utilising your 7.2 surround sound setup.With Dolby Atmos and DTS:X, the Yamaha RX-V685 takes your speaker setup and transforms your audio into a three-dimensional experience, delivering sounds to particular speakers. Rendering everything from quiet dialogue to tension-building music during action scenes, it places you at the heart of the action and lets you hear every sound crystal clear.And with Cinema DSP 3D, you’re able to transform your living room acoustics into an expansive concert hall or movie theatre. Choose between sound programs like Chamber, Music Video, Sports, Drama and Sci-Fi, and get the ideal listening experience for whatever you’re watching or listening to. Relive that legendary gig, or get engrossed in the action like you’re at the flicks.Enjoy music throughout your homeWhether you’re hosting a party, or making a cup of tea and don’t want to miss your favourite song, enjoy your playlist as you move from room to room with MusicCast. With WiFi connectivity, the Yamaha RX-V485 can connect to up to 32 other MusicCast speakers throughout your home.Just connect all your speakers to the same WiFi network, and you’re ready to play music from anywhere in the house with the Yamaha MusicCast app.Hear every detailSo you can hear the crisp highs and thunderous lows on your favourite tracks, the RX-V685 supports High-Resolution audio, letting you get the best from your music collection. With support for file types such as FLAC, ALAC, WAV and more, you can be sure to get great sound.Control your music with your voiceInstead of scrambling for the remote, ask your Alexa speaker (sold separately) to pause the music on the RX-V685 when there’s a knock at the door. You can give Alexa commands like “Alexa, ask MusicCast to set volume to 20 in the living room”, or “Alexa, ask MusicCast to switch the input to Bluetooth”, and your AV Receiver will respond instantly.
- Product ID: 23400074791
