 Just at loudspeakers. Run the YP-AO room correction and you're set. After reading the 149 pages thick manual, the term Swiss Army Receiver popped up. If this product can't satisfy your stereo receiver needs, you have a serious problem. For years I have focused on the digital front end of a stereo. I know I also did compact network active loudspeakers, provided they offered sufficient quality. I tip my toes into the network amplifiers from time to time. Something I plan to do more often in the future, to start off with this Yamaha Network Receiver. Buckle up, for there's a lot to tell. Let's see how the R-N2000A, which I call N2000 from here on, is to be used. Of course it needs a pair of loudspeakers connected. If you want to play music from your computer, it can be connected over USB, Toslink or Spidiff, depending on the outputs available on your computer. USB is most used. Alternatively, you can use Apple Airplay 2 or Bluetooth to send music from the computer tablet or smartphone to the N2000. Of course, this has quality restrictions. Apple Airplay supports sampling rates up to 48 kHz, while Bluetooth uses lossy compression. If the computer is connected via your router to the internet, you can play internet radio or music from streaming services using the designated software on the computer. But there is a better way. If you connect the N2000 to your home network and install the Yamaha MusicCast app on your smartphone or tablet, you can play internet radio and streaming services you are subscribed to without your computer switch on. And you can use your smartphone or tablet for other things as soon as the music is playing. If you then install a DnlA server program on your NAS, you can also play music from it. A good DnlA server program for music is MinimServer. There is a free version and a paid version that has more features. By the way, you can still receive FM radio and digital radio using the built-in receiver. Digital radio in Europe en in some other countries means DAB+. I'm not sure whether there are localized versions offering for instance AG radio. The N2000 comes with an infrared remote control and as said, can be controlled from the MusicCast app on a smartphone or tablet. Of course, it is still possible to connect a CD player over either SPDIF, Toslink or analog connections. Last but not least, a TV can be connected over either HDMI, Toslink of analog connection. HDMI can be used if you use the HDMI arc connection on your TV. Arc stands for Audio Return Channel. The N2000 cannot output video of course. Other digital and analog sources can be connected to as we will see later on. The Yamaha design language has been constant for years now, with slight adaptations over time. A bit like Audi updated their design language over the years. The N2000 has for instance the same knobs for bass, treble, balance and loudness my preamp had 45 years ago. Still, it looks modern. Both black and silver versions are available. In both cases the strip along the bottom of the front is black and hides an OLED display. The sides are finished in piano black. It has a width of 435 millimeters, is 473 millimeters deep and 233 millimeters high. Put it on scales and you see 22.1 kilos, 48.7 imperial pounds. On the front left, the power switch, with below it the 6.3 millimeter headphone jack and the 3.5 millimeter jack for the supplied measurement microphone. Then the speaker selector button, that steps to pair A, pair B, A plus B and speakers off. The meter selector lets you select for peak or VU reading, dim the lights or switch the meters off. The input selector steps to all the inputs. On the remote control inputs can be directly chosen which is great for people that want to use a universal programmable remote control like those by Logitech Harmony. Then we get the bass control. The treble control. The balance control. And the loudness control. The latter is a Yamaha all-time favorite that lets you compensate for the diminishing sensitivity of the air for low frequencies at low volumes. When pressed, the select button opens the menu on the display where it says MC Link on this photo. Turning the knob shows the menu options and pressing it again selects that option. This button lets you return from the menu. When pressed for five seconds, it lets you pair the N2000 to the music class app on your smartphone or tablet. The preset select button lets you select FM and DAB plus stations, music on your server and net radio stations you have programmed earlier. The pure direct button lets you bypass the various adjustment functions. Bass, treble, balance and loudness, settings made via YPAO, operation of the option menu and setup menu. It also dims the front display when no operations are performed. When using pure direct transmissions to the music class network are not available except for audio of the network content and Bluetooth devices. The volume control is the largest control since it's most urgently used. Along the bottom there is a plastic strip with behind it the OLED display that shows the chosen input, the volume setting when the volume is changed, information on the song playing when streaming and so on. On the right function lets for WiFi and Bluetooth. A lot of options means a crowded rear panel but it's not too bad if you take it step by step. Let's start with the IEC mains input. Then above it the HDMI input to connect to the HDMI arc output on your TV. It sends audio only from your TV to the N2000. The two little connectors on the left of it are for service purposes only so you can't forget about them. The network connection needs to be connected to your home network. The USB connector to the left of it is to be connected to your computer if you want to connect it directly and not over the network. Then further to the left the coaxial speedup digital input that can for instance be used to hook up a CD player digitally. Then the optical tostling digital inputs. These can be used to connect a TV over optical if that doesn't have the HDMI arc output or any other digital source that has a tostling output. Then we get three analog line inputs. Line 1, line 2 and CD. Here any analog audio device save a turntable can be connected for instance the analog audio outputs over TV or CD player. The turntable having a moving magnet cartridge can be connected here. The earth wire needs to be connected to this screw terminal. There also is an analog preamp output to feed an external power amplifier and a subwoofer output. To automatically switch on the external power amp this trigger output is used. For FM and DAB plus radio reception an antenna needs to be connected here. Two pairs of loudspeakers can be connected using rather sophisticated speaker terminals. They accept banana plugs from the rear, bare wires when unscrewed with the ring here in red pushed to the amp and forks when that ring is pulled towards the nuts. Everything inside and out of the N2000 stage build quality. A lot of attention is paid to vibration control. Take for instance this frame that connects the front panel to the rear panel. That wasn't needed per se since the top plate also fixes the front and the rear. But the top plate is fixed to this frame too for extra rigidity. Or take this 3mm thick brass plate that is sandwiched between the bottom of the transformer en de inner chassis. Transformers have a tendency to vibrate a bit since they work with 50 or 60 Hz AC voltage. Vibrations can cause electronic components to vary their properties and thus cause distortion. The brass plate is here to dampen vibrations. The transformer is mounted in the middle against the front away from the preamp section. Behind it the rest of the power supply with the electrolytic capacitors in clear sight and the rest below that. Then to both sides the power amplifiers for left and right mounted against large cooling profiles. The amps deliver 90 watts over 20 to 20 000 Hz in 8 ohm and 145 watts in 4 ohms. When measured at 1 kHz and at 10% distortion as some manufacturers do it delivers 120 watts in 8 ohms en 185 watts in 4 ohms. I'd rather stick to the really usable spec of 90 watts in 8 ohms and 145 watts in 4 ohms over the entire audio band. Then against the rear panel 3 circuit boards stacked on top of each other. I didn't want to take it fully apart so I only described what I found on the top board. Left next to the HDMI input we see a Panasonic video chip dat handelt de HDMI ARK input en CAC control. Dan we zien een NXP ARM Cortex microprocessor dat meestal waarschijnlijk de systeem control doet. De heel groot Yamaha Cinema Digital Signal Processor is meestal waarschijnlijk de YPAO Room Correction en is niet gebruikt hier voor Dolby of DTS sound. De HDMI input alleen accepteert stereo PCM sound. Zo, als je dat input gebruikt, zet je de tv naar het outputstereo PCM over ARK. Naast de DSP zien we een SD-RAM voor vervolking van de Room Correction data. Een andere mooie detail. Twee duitere rotten dat meestal voor de grondende twee separate deel van de circuitboard zijn. Dan, wat verder naar de rechter, de Burr-Brown 4202 Analog-to-Digital Converter om 192 kilo waarschijnlijk te doen aan 24 bit resolutie. Het is daar om de analoge input te ververen zodat ze door de toonkontrol en de Room Correction DSP kan worden procesd. De ESS 9026 Pro Digital To Analog Converter is van ESS Technologies. Het is de hoogere versie van de ES9028 Mobile versie. Een ding is er om te laten zien. Speciale feeden supporten de N2000. Deze zijn silverplated brassen feeden waarin Yamaha zegt dat ze de hoogere vervolking vervoerd zijn. Begin in een receiver met 12 physicale en virtual inputten, 9 meer als je op de streaming services. Deze selectie is gemaakt simpel met direct selectie van de remote control en in de app waarin later meer. De HDMI, tostlink en speed of inputs supports sampling rates up to 192 kHz. USB supports up to 384 kHz 32 bit en DSD256. Dezelfde gaat voor audio via de network. Altho je kunt muziek selecten van streaming services en je DNA server op de display met de front panel controls of informatuur remote, gebruik de app is veel easier. Wanneer je begint te starten, schuilt de rooms waar je de Yamaha muziekast equipment installeerd hebt. In mijn geval is dat de living room alleen. Wanneer gechozen, schuilt recent sources waar de server stands voor DNA server. Recent shows de laatste blade songs. Dan kan je selectie van de playlist die je gemaakt hebt. Aan de bottom van de screen zie je alle 21 sources je kunt selecten hier. Ofcours voor streaming services je moet een subscriptie nodig. Zoals voor Kobius heb ik hier selecten. Laten we nieuwe pop en rock muziek in nieuwe releases ontdekken. Zoals je kunt zien, Kobius werkt binnen de muziekastapp. Voor title connect, de externe title connect app is begonnen wanneer de muziek is routeerd tot de N2000. Selecting server geeft access tot een DNA blade server of ieder een computer of NAS. In mijn geval gebruik ik de minimie server op een Synology NAS. Laten we naar artiesten en bezoek voor Alice Cooper. Het shows dat ik 5 albums heb bij Cooper. Ik selecteer de killer op de tekst wanneer de album art loopt. Dit geeft de nu-playing screen waar je kunt zetten repeat random play en zet de volume van de N2000. In de sound settings kun je op de YPAO Roon Correction switchen, selecten speaker sets, selecten een sleep timer, switchen op de audio informatie en de display van de volume niveau. Ik switche op de audio informatie en dat is nu direct bezocht onder de cover art. Laten we terug naar de mainscreen en selecten net radio. De hoge kwaliteiten kan hier ontdekken. Laten we naar de Lynn Classical station en zien dat het nog maar is MP3 op 320 kb per seconde. Er is veel meer te doen in de muziekcaster als het te koop met either Amazon Alexa of Google Assistant voor voorkontrol. Koop met andere muziekcast playeren en koop met ze samen voor multi-room playback. En voordat ik het begrijp, het doet gappless playback ook. All in all musicast is a versatile environment as long as you stay in the Amazon musicast environment. But that goes for most other systems too. Ik begin testen in my setup 2 where the N2000 was connected to a pair of acoustic energy radiance 1 loudspeakers over Kimba 4PR loudspeaker cable. Connected to the sub-out was the relative 5 subwoofer. The network switch was the optone audio ether regen with optone audio ultracaps 1.2 power supply. The Synology DS1890 plus NAS with DX517 extender runs Minim server. The equipment is housed in a target track. I started with the room correction switched off and the subwoofer dialed in manually. The N2000 sounds powerful without sounding loud. It has a very good micro-dynamics for its class. It has excellent pace and rhythm and excellent resolution, especially in the mids and highs. Then I ran the room correction. It has the impossible acronym YPAO RSC, which stands for Yamaha Parametric Room Augustic Optimizer Reflected Sound Control. So it controls the amplitude of the problem frequencies and somehow controls the reflected sound as well. I really have no idea how they do it. My request for more explanations got stuck in Japan. So is it not. But the fact is that it brought me more focus and better lows. While the studio upstairs is already fairly optimized. Doing the calibration is a breeze. Plug in the supplied microphone. Place it at the position of your head at the listening position using a tripod and press the OK button on the remote control. The N2000 starts with pink noise bursts increasing in loudness, followed by a wobble tone on the left channel. Followed by the same signals on the right channel. A few minutes later, the display asks you to press OK again and you're set. It's that simple. To see the ultimate quality the N2000 can deliver, it was connected to the loudspeakers of my Zeta 1. The PMC FAC12 signature loudspeakers on ISO acoustic Gaia 2 isolators and connected over AudioQuest Robinhood 0 loudspeaker cable. The network connection was over a normal patch cable to the SOtM SNH 10G network switch. The Synology DS1890 plus SNAS with DX517 extender running Minim server again was the DLA server. Finally I tested the HDMI input by connecting the HDMI arc output of my Panasonic plasma to the N2000. I had my doubts about connecting the N2000 to my 21K PCMs. They have a low efficiency of 84 dBs and do need real driver control. On the other hand, in the lows the impedance does not go below 5 ohms and doesn't have a steep phase angle anywhere. Which is in favor of the combination. I started off switching the pure direct mode on. So no tone control, no loudness and no room correction. I normally use the Air Acoustics AX520 amp connected to the Chord Dave DAC and the Grim Audio Mu1 digital player here. Over 40K of equipment. So a direct comparison would be extremely unfair. But it was rather surprising how well the N2000 did. It can't match the very high resolution of my own equipment but when I connect the Marantz amp from my setup 2 here the limitations are far more clear to here. The N2000 sounded full bodied, clean, in control and produces a proper stereo image. After measuring in the YPAO room correction the same improvements in focus took place as experience in the studio. But now I missed the real deep lows a bit. Perhaps the system works better in one room and less perfect in the other. Of perhaps that with more experimenting with a different loudspeaker placement better results can be obtained. When switching to TV over HDMI everything works fine. It's so nice to play the TV's sound over a good stereo when compared to the TV's own sound. For most people 3799 euros will be a lot of money. But for this amp it's a steal. It of course isn't an amp. It's a complete stereo save the loudspeakers. It's an FM and DAB plus receiver. A comprehensive network player with direct access to popular streaming services. A quality DAC, a room correction system and an amp in one box. It not only needs less space than the separate components. It's also a lot easier to operate. If your TV matches you can even control your TV over the N2000 remote using CAC over HDMI. Which brings us to the end of this video. I'll be back next Friday at 5 p.m. central european time. If you don't want to miss that subscribe to my channel or follow me on the social media so you will be informed when new videos are out. Help me reach even more people by giving this video a thumb up or link to this video on the social media. It is much appreciated. Many thanks to those viewers who support this channel financially. Especially in these times. It keeps me independent and lets me improve the channel further. If that makes you feel like supporting my work too, the links are in the comments below this video on YouTube. I'm Hans Beekhuyzen. Thank you for watching and see you in the next show or on theHBproject.com. Whatever you do, enjoy the music.