Yamaha announces Aventage receivers with HDMI 2.1 for 8k60 and 4k120 pass-through

Yamaha announces a new series in the Aventage line of receivers, which currently consists of three models. The receivers have HDMI 2.1 connections for the transmission of 8k60 and 4k120. These would not show the issues that occurred with previous connections.

The three new Yamaha receivers are the Aventage RX-A8A, RX-A6A and RX-A4A, with 11, 9 and 7 channels respectively. All models have HDMI 2.1 for 8k60 and 4k120 pass-through. Support for uncompressed 8k60AB and 4k120AB pass-through will follow via a firmware update.

Yamaha announces to WhatHiFi that the receivers will in any case not run into the HDMI 2.1 problems that the previous generation of receivers had to deal with. They could not transmit 4k signals at 120Hz via HDMI 2.1. Denon and Marantz models also had this problem.

In total, the Aventage has seven HDMI inputs and three outputs and the receivers have support for HDMI 2.1 functionalities such as auto low latency mode, variable refresh rates, quick frame transport and quick media switching.

The devices have a Qualcomm QCS407-soc, with four cores and an Adreno 306-GPU. Furthermore, support for Dolby Atmos and DTS: X is available. The Yamaha RX-A8A, RX-A6A and RX-A4A will be available from July this year for suggested retail prices of 1679, 2749 and 3799 euros.