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In Reply to: Yamaha DVD-S657 universal machine posted by The Sound Guy on December 2, 2005 at 01:23:12:
If it's anything like the DVD S1500, avoid like the plague.
I had one of those, and it is awful.
Skips even on pressed discs, and noew the store I bought it from say they cannot replicate the fault.So I'm stuck after shelling out £275 with a useless player.
Yamaha are useless, all they tell me is to contact the retailer.AVOID ALL YAMAHA.
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It looks exactly like the S1500 sold here in the USA. I have one and had to return it to Yamaha. It gave me trouble from Day One. Only when it catastrophically failed; no sound, distorted picture did I return it to Yamaha. They replaced it with a "B" stock unit which played well for four months. Now I'm getting occasional motor vibration noise. It's going to go back before the six month warranty expires.
My advice: stay away from it.
Yes they do look alike but looking at the menus and rear connectors from the manuals they seem to be different inside. But I'll take your advice and be careful.
But unfortunately at that price range (approx USD195) there seems to be no other reasonable universal player available for sale in Singapore! The only other similarly priced Pioneer 686 (approx USD 160) does not even do level adjustments!
I second this advice.Avoid the Yamaha players as you would a dose of the clap.
Sorry to be crude, but I can think of no better way to put it - I'm out of pocket by £275 over this S1500, the retailer will not refund me and Yamaha do not care.I will be talking to trading standards office, and for all in the UK - do NOT buy anything from AV-Land in Wellingborough.
Their after sales service is frankly a joke, they do not care.
All I got was a whine about how they had already made a loss selling the machine to me for less than they paid for it to Yamaha. Why this is my problem escapes me right now.A store I can highly recommend is Superfi. They give a damn, and have been great.
www.opusproductions.com
Multichannel Audio Specialists
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