Yamaha RX-V385BL vs Sony STR-DH590

When the price does not matter: Sony STRDH590 vs Yamaha RX-V385BL

If to compare Sony STRDH590 versus Yamaha RX-V385BL both devices left a good impression after the test. The name of the first device speaks for itself. One of the most famous companies created Sony STRDH590 one of the cheapest and very high-quality receivers with only $178 for the basic version for now. For this money, you get almost all the functions of an expensive receiver such as 4K HDR video with Dolby vision feature and built-in Bluetooth which lets you wirelessly stream from other Bluetooth devices and 5.2 ch surround for cinematic sound.

And about Yamaha RX-V385BL, this is just a modernized version of the popular Yamaha RX-V385 which also gives you the best technologies to your home including Dolby vision, 4K Ultra HD, HDR10 and Bluetooth at an affordable price. But the problems of the previous version of Yamaha also moved to Yamaha RX-V385BL such as software sound issues. Sony repeats Devon's error and ignores the popular feature of HDMI conversion and scaling.

Features & Performance

If to compare Yamaha RX-V385BL vs Sony STRDH590 in features and performance Yamaha is a little better because of HDMI conversion and scaling feature, 3D pass-through, and X.v.Color mode.

Connections & Setup

Both devices are easy to setup and have most the types of inputs such as HDMI and USB but its very bad that both have not AV inputs it means you need to buy an adapter separately.

Design

Both devices have a popular but very standard box form factor, so because of this, I can not say that one of them is more beautiful but both will look good on wooden furniture.

Sony STRDH590 pros & cons

Yamaha RX-V385BL pros & cons