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- Dave finds a sweet Yamaha RX-V579 surround sound receiver with all the bell and whistles in the dumpster!
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With a lot of these amps you'll find an app for your phone that'll let you set it up and configure (uses the network), Have a look on the appstore for a Yamaha remote app
Wow, found the app and it works great via WiFi! Connects to my Synology NAS and does everything. Amazing. Thanks.
@@EEVblog winner winner chicken dinner.
Just incase you ever need to in the future; if you have a phone with IR blaster (or buy a dongle IR blaster to connect to the phone) you can use AnyMote app which really works a treat with every old and new remote controlled device ive tried it on. Cheers.
@@viewer54322 I use the samsung galaxy S5 phone which has a built-in ir-blaster and the irplus app to emulate the remotes - works treat :)
@@EEVblog do a review of it
next dumpster find will be a Ferrari (spare tire missing) and after that a small apartment with a broken window :)
Hahahaha
Or an imac pro or some other equally $$$ computer decked out to the gills and just missing the power cord :P
Why not just say you bought it for review off eBay
sometimes I believe that dumpster dive is fake!
@@dash8brj You are kidding but a friend of mine found a Mac Pro that was like 3 years old that was overheating. They decided that cleaning the dust is not an option.
Japan are obsessive about not letting wires float in the wind. This is due the earthquakes. Worked for telco vendor in japan.
Interesting, thanks.
Wire flapping is just wrong on so many levels.
bill605able I meant flapping it was autocorrect. All 19 “ racks cables had to be tied down every 200mm by regulation. Cable porn. Everything in the machine room was tied down. Even chairs were chained when not in use. I was there for 3 months and felt what a 4.3 fealt like. They take earthquakes seriously but just could not be stuffed terminating a 60w 3g 2.1GHz feeder cable. Literally made my eyes water.
Yeah they let them securely affixed under water after the tsunami. Too soon for a Fukushima joke?
Krasimir Ivanov the idea is taken from the way they bend bonsai branches with wire.
I am so envious. Dumpster diving around here always involves something drippy and smelly. :-)
My ex? lol
Yamaha still makes good stuff unlike a lot of audio names that have been bought just to market crap.
Yamaha's reputation is still great. One of the few ones you can still trust.
Talk about consistency. Look at those other brands try getting more money while giving you less value just because of the brand.
I've the 779 version and these are great receivers. Amazing find Dave.
It never ceases to amaze me what people will throw out. I have a Core i7 laptop computer, in perfect working order I found in the trash at a car wash, they even included the power supply. All that was missing was the hard drive, as well as its related bracket and cover
Of course the amp board looks the same. They got the 7.1ch design down pat, no need to reinvent it for the new model.
It is a 7.2 model
does not matter... subwooferoutlets are not on the amp... they are just preamp outputs
That also might be why it's not a class D amp. They can't be bothered to spin a new amplifier?
The guy that was stealing that sure was pissed off when he came back to the dumpster to pick up his booty!
I have a whole shelf full of these things. I get them from craigslist when someone is giving them away because they don't work, or selling them for $10 - $20. I also get them cheap at The Goodwill Store. The ones I can fix easily get sold quick and the ones I can't, sit on the shelf for years while I procrastinate about getting to them.
It never ceases to amaze me the amount of electronic gear that people throw out. You definitely have a winner there for sure. Thanks for sharing
"Pro Dumpster diving tip: always look for the remote!" - :) you made my day!
I cannot believe people actually throw this kind of stuff in the dumpster.
Ohhhhhh boy, we're downloading firmware for a RECEIVER now. 😱 Nice find!! Most dumpsters strong where I live are secured, whether residential or commercial. Plus there's cameras. I'm so jealous! 😂
my rx-v361 from 2009 or so still does a perfect job.
i love the yamaha line of beginner grade av receivers
If you get the mic for it, it does automatic room correction. I had a Yamaha and now a Denon that sets levels, delay, phase, and EQ for all 5 speakers and the subwoofer. The difference in the sound, especially for multichannel audio, is amazing.
Yamaha stuff is beyond excellent.
where can I find such a dumpster
Only in Australia.
As an occasional dumpster diver i peruse the dumpsters around colleges at graduation time. The kids throw away tons of stuff their Mommy and Daddy bought for them but it's not good enough now that they have graduated. So then they go back to living with them while holding down a job at the local coffee bar.
I did fish out a lot of functioning things of some dumpster. But there is legal problems with that in Switzerland so I had to look out not to get caught..
@Lako Oh, you mean you found some old LJN games?
@@Bogyway So the Swiss people really appreciate their trash. Got it, in case I visit someday. Tho there are similar issues here about electronic waste.
I've had a Yamaha A5 permanently powered on doing AV duties for the last 20 years...old school construction, a discrete output and good quality components from what I can see.
What a find, I spotted a date of May 2015 inside, well worth getting a remote for it. That is a keeper!
Love your camera work as you explain the components. Thank you!
common problem with this Yamaha is disconnecting output speaker randomly even after few hours, possibly some dry joint under BGA IC (not sure).
Here I am listening to this video through an almost 40 year old Pioneer SA-508, my daily driver so to speak. In South Africa we repair things until there's nothing left.
I have RX-479 and its great. Great score!
Heat sink is a major consideration for this thing. Looks like they hired a physicist or a patient nerd to wind up at that configuration. Trick is to maximize surface area and minimize brute force thickness. Notice how thin the blades of the heat sink are. Well done, Yamaha!
Let it run for a while with the surround sound on. Yamaha's have been known to have faulty surround sound boards. They will work for a while and then they will cut out.
Download the Yamaha AV Control Android App to control all of the features of the Receiver.
I was quite surprised he didn't try that seeing as he managed to get it on his WiFi without the remote so it should have been smooth sailing from there.
He did.
Nice find, Dave...
At least the EEs at yamaha audio department scratched their heads and moved away from these thick film power units (SK,STK...) and went back to complementary power output transistors/fets/RingEmitters/IGBTs...easier to 2nd source and also easier to repair.
But these surround stuff isn´t a thing to me...i stick with the 80th HiFi, Stereo.
Nice find! I recently found an OG xbox at the dumpster without anything else along. Was still working and traded it in at the local game store for some in-store credit.
Do a reverse engineering video on it. That main board is insane...as complicated as most of the test equipment you feature. And the rest of it is worth a deeper look. :)
I am rocking the 575 for a few years now. Beautiful thing, simple, does what it needs to do and sounds good. Though it's a bit overkill for me now since I am now mainly using as a beefy headphone amp and sometimes as a 2.1 amp ;).
You are lucky to be able to pick stuff in the dumpster. Here in Belgium, it's totally forbidden and if the guy at the dumpsters sees you picking something, you are.in troubles.
That's ridiculous because I'd like pick some stuff and try repairing it. But the law does not allow you to.
the same here in germany. Prior 2k you could pick up some stuff if you just asked the staff, but after millenium they all got that contract to set up surveilance cams, and also in/out matching, they need to sign that they don´t sell/give away/take out any kind of piece of electronic once it´s inside.
They did not remove the sticker with feature sum-up that is only intended for use on the store shelve :-)
Similar to leaving the protective plastic on...
man i love this dumpster stuff wish i had something like this near me i love digging into electronics and seeing if i can fix it or not so much fun even if its not even broken i just love taking things apart like you do :)
Dave you get the best finds
Hey don't bash Yamaha caps! lol Actually that's suppose to say Yamaha Audio as it's their own brand of caps. Not audiophoolery. This is a high end receiver for it's time, I think one under their highest end receiver due to the lack of inputs at the back, and yes there are higher end ones so loaded with inputes it will make your head spin. They still use single mosfets for sound to cut down on noise and better power delivery. The reason why they still make their own caps along with Marantz and McIntosh is because they are larger then audio caps these days, better storage of power. Which equates to better bass output / power delivery. Their high end component amplifiers still have the monster 2" diameter filter caps. I fix amplifiers new and old, large / custom caps just did it better.
Worth bu thing a new remote. Definitely a keeper!
That machine was born on my 40th Bday!
how awesome that Electroboom mentioned you in his latest video! I've been following him whilst learning electronics and TAFE and then found yourself - nice one!
Your dumpster room is insane
great save on the yamaha i don't know why people do this i just found a philips home theater system with all of the speakers but no remote and it works great
Not bad...sells used on Amazon for around $550 USD, with remote though...
Do you just have access to a magic dumpster, or are people throwing away good stuff all over the place?
+Matthew Daiyve has been doing these "faux" dumpster dives for some time. Few are actual throw-aways.
It's bullshit, these are time and time again planted devices. No matter how many times he claims these are actual finds, it doesn't make it true.
If you don't spend your budget you face a cut, so update your gear to fill out your year and cover your rear
not saying it's right, just say'n
The Yamaha app can set up most stuff, or universal remote app will have a Yamaha profile, away you go!
It's probably a company that's written the tax off on it and it's now just surplus to them, selling would cause tax issues for them so in the dumpster it is.
I have a RX-V 350. 14 years old. Solid as a tank. No hdmi of course.
This model is valued at about $250. It's replacement is priced about $450.
As someone that works in the av world we do recycle tons of good recievers.
11:08 - Oooh, Thanks, you've shown me how to access the factory settings for my ancient pre-HDMI RX-V650. Cheers! :)
1:48 all the old-school stuff??? Where is the phono input???
A proper massive transformer ! That's great to see. You can't beat proper iron in a psu IMO. And Yamaha branded caps ? Wow.
Nicely built thing all round.
that device might have been an employee doing a trash hide on a peice of equipment that was supposed to go into storage. the way a trash bag just happened to be sitting on top of it seems suspicious if you hadn't found it before you started rolling video (you probably did though so i don't know how it looked when you walked in). an underhanded thing that some employees will do is take something to the trash instead of to storage then dig it out of the trash before they go home, you might wanna ask around your building and find out where it came from, because it might be technically stolen.
It looks just like I found it. People and companies just chuck this stuff out for many reasons.
@@EEVblog depending on the company it would be breaking some rules by discarding perfectly functional equipment instead of selling it off. keep in mind that a publicly traded companies shareholders would shit a brick if even a thousand dollars was needlessly thrown away in its entirety. if your companies over there function like that without getting into trouble, it's only a matter of time until people do start pitching a fit. its pure financial irresponsibility and it ends up with people getting fired over here in the states. if the device had had any problems that would be one thing, but throwing away an almost new and quite valuable piece of equipment is a huge nono here in the states, people get fired for allot less, even company ceos.
in other words, a device like that would have been given away to an employee, not thrown in the garbage. and as i stated if they device had had any problems, yeah, to the garbage it goes, doesn't matter if it can be fixed because arranging the fix and paying for it would likely cost more than the device. but throwing away crap that works perfectly fine is a HUGE corporate nono. if your the employee or manager, you might as well start filing for unemployment.
@@kght222 Its possible one or more HDMI ports are faulty as the solder joints can easily fail if you tug on the cables too much.
My Sony, even though it uses a discrete board for the HDMI ports (unlike this one) so should have been piss easy to repair, was basically junked by the store (under warranty) because Sony no longer manufactured the part.
I only hope they sold it on for repair, I hate the idea it was actually scrapped.
@@alexatkin certainly wouldn't rule out an intermittent fault on the device. my problem is with the lack of external damage. i don't know if folk throw away crap the same way elsewhere, but i'm certainly not sitting something down when it goes into a bin, it gets chucked. and hell, even with a slight intermittent fault like that, nobody working there wanted to take it home? yeah, there can be some issues with that some places, but the solution isn't to just throw it away. btw if all these trash treasures are coming from the same building, i would guess that someone needs to do a serious audit of those companies, because everything is wrong.
Very nice find Dave
You're a lucky bugger having access to that dumpster room!
This model has been discontinued by Yamaha. The replacement model RX- V583 is £399 on Amazon.
I found an Onkyo home theater stereo receiver in a neighbours
garbage I know enough to check fuses and some stuff but I started with a Google
search onkyo receiver no sound, found there was a free recall. The company
fixed it for free they paid shipping back and forth. It’s like new.
Man am I jealous. Am still using my RX-300u from the 90's.
Pretty sure this doesn’t support HDR which makes it ‘obsolete’ despite being only three years old. I have an Onkyo receiver of similar age which has the same problem of being new enough to support 4K but not new enough to support HDR. Perhaps that’s why they dumped it.
My Sony which is only one model behind the latest has LESS functionality than this dumpster dive. Same issues you mention too, only one HDCP 2.2 port, no HDR, no 4:4:4 in 4K.
My old amp must be from the Ark then it is a Sony STRD-1090. its an old Dolby Prologic unit from early 90's
Yeah, it also doesn't support the new Dolby Atmos and DTS:X
I had same problem with hdr so i connected it directly to tv and used optical output of my player to receiver. But Atmos is a different story!!
MrShotgunJones it handles 4K but only at 60htz.
I'd wager that beefy Yamaha branded cap is a Matsushita. Not as highly praised as Nippon Chemi-con or Nichicon, but similar quality.
I've had a refurbished rx-v375 for several years now, and I honestly cannot find fault with it's function, though I have occasionally had to override the edid file that it reports to my pc.
As for the remote, I think that you should be able to get away with a cheap universal remote, and if you can't you just order an original off amazon.
At the frequency that Dave lucks upon these dumpster gems leads me to conclude that Australians have more money the brains... PS: I know the fix! Hint: Its a known issue :)
Cameron MacDonald go watch eWaste Ben’s channel out of Melbourne, the volume of tech he finds is astonishing!!! They say Americans have a bad habit of wasting but wow does that channel prove that wrong.
Not that we have hard rubbish days here in Tulsa, but we donate pretty much everything to charities for resale/recycling. Salvation Army, AMVETS, HOW Foundation, etc. you can summon a truck any weekday you’d like. I cleaned out a container, PODS ripoff, on a Monday and had the unwanted picked up Tuesday morning and the container gone that night.
Cole Lancaster
yes, donations are 100% tax deductible.
Meanwhile in Portugal(a second world european country) i can only get broken beyond reasonable repair and 15+y stuff(never saw anything better than a pentium 4 PC)
@@miragept
Don't worry... Australian country towns are the same. I think partly because farmers have a habit of fixing EVERYTHING 50 times before they replace them, so no one throws things out until they're genuinely dead.
Sometimes I wonder if I should go visit the cities a bit, and wander around the dumpsters at big buildings.... These videos make me think I'd be able to furnish a house with people's garbage.
Unfortunately the places i go is on the second largest city of the country (porto), so if were i go is pretty awful, in smaller cities they are probably non-existent.
when something brakes , he throws is to the dumpster and comes back with a camera to get it :D
Koreans also dump so much working appliances when their moving apartments. I love our recycle section of the dumpster.
Just FYI, I have had 3 similar Yamaha HTAs across my bench in the last year or so and every one had a fault in the standby power circuit. All different models but same basic layout. all 3 faults were temperature dependent and due to altered/low value capacitors (the red polyester ones) in the capacitor dropper circuit that gets the standby function up from power on. I don't usually repair very much but these amps all belonged to friends! A fourth, older one, had a small mains transformer for the standby function that also was intermittent with temperature. It could be that your one was thrown away due to no signs of life but is now in a warmer place so the fault is not evident, maybe?
Goodwill here in the US would charge $100US, not working or for parts only!
That is a very decent current spec AV amp (4K support), I'll take it! And Yamaha audio equipment is some of the best there is, especially in the pro market.
also, yamaha provides PDFs with the ENTIRE, COMPLETE circuit on their site.
that's rad! you don't see that nowadays anymore!
that will make a great shop radio
You sir, are doing God's work
Really? I love Dave but struggle to believe in the magic dumpster. I have the magic Ebay that sends me similar stuff.
We are talking about $500 msrp in 2016. Here's the funny thing. This receiver has got a ton of tech packed in and does 80W RMS per channel. Meanwhile same model line A-S801 stereo IA 100w per channel, not 7.2 rubbish, almost zero tech build in, priced $1000 msrp. Go figure.
A yamaha AV reciever and a roll of carpet is NOT general waste!
Got a RX-775 - Its a darn good surround receiver for the money!
I fixed one like that (slightly different model, maybe a year or two older) for a guy I know. It did have a bulged filter cap on the pre-amp.
nice find...youre a lucky bastard Dave! :P
the wrapped wire around the cables might have something to do with signal?..they all seem to be grounded..maybe like a noise choke like a ferrite?
Choke was what I was thinking to because those wires run really close to the transformer.
A friend of mine owns a company that hauls away old furniture and appliances but has also been paid many times to take away brand new tv sets, microwaves and even a refrigerator still in their boxes. He also gets pretty expensive lawn tractors with just a dead battery or clogged fuel filter or some other minor problem. Like they say one mans trash.
Dave, beware! There must be a black hole somewhere in that dumpster room. That's where all these good stuff get there.
I am not familiar with current generic universal remotes for Audio Video Receivers, but i have a Logitech 650 (us$40) that ahndles all the oddball accessorties I throw at it including my Yamaha RX-V2600 (their first HDMI model). Good Luck!@ That room would keep me from ever leaving. Happy Holidays to you and family.
I've seen the solid wire soldered on as a cable retainer in various devices previously, so I guess it's just a choice some manufacturers make.
Gawd that AVR is newer than the one i bought new. I have the X71 generation.
As long as you are connected to wifi/ Network, you can control it via mobile app. Or you can buy a universal remote!!
Nice find
Did you try cranking the speakers and running it for a while? I wonder if they were going into protect or cutting out or something like that.
You can configure the receiver with the buttons on the device. Just use hdmi as display and you will have a full menu with all options.
Lost the remote and didnt want to walk to it to change things..
That's pretty insane if true seeing as it seems likely to have a smartphone app to control it with.
Lost boyfriend/girlfriend and didn't know what to do with it is another possibility.
Or bought a fancier one.
3:53 This must be the ugliest pair of loudspeakers/monitors I've ever seen. Found in the Dumpster of a Borg Hive!!!
Funny about this Yamaha Receiver: You can't really tell how recent it is because seemingly Yamaha's designer Team is pretty old school! I have Guitar Amp THR10 from Yamaha. Now I know why it looks as it looks! Cheers, nice find!
@Andrew BallardYes, it's a nice concept, portable, recording with Zero-latency due to the direct monitoring feature. And you can record only your DI signal if you wanna use VST-Amps and Cabs later. But unfortunately it's horribly outdated. Yamaha never bothered to put an effect pedal section in front of the chain. So, you can't boost with an OD/TS to get more metal-like sounds. Compared to what is possible with impulse responses the sounds of the THR10 are also a bit behind. Nowadays I'd choose Boss or Vox over the THR in this segment.
I pulled a similar system out of the Goodwill Outlet bins not long ago. I'll never understand what people toss. (For the non-USAians. Goodwill is a thrift store chain and their Outlet stores are basically the crap they couldn't sell at regular stores but they take donations there as well)
The real shame is charities often can't sell electrical items either due to insurance concerns if they haven't been electrically tested.
@@alexatkin Not in the USA it seems.
I had a pioneer shoot flames in my face thank god i had warenty on it i just turned it on lcd screen went dim the relay went nuts and a big ass flame shot out of the top so i went to the store with all the paper work told what happend first thing they asked .... dose it stil work
I love how well Yamaha built it!!! You can download Yamaha AV app on your phone to replace the remote ;-)
It's official - Dave's dumpster has better gear than my house.
Last time a tv and now a video/sound receiver ypu have the beat neighbours hahaha
I'm always envious at these videos. The local authorities banned electronics from dumpsters several years ago, electronic stuff may only be disposed of through official recycling depots.
Best things are free, most of the time.
Just out of curiosity the wire tie boards the ties themselves are insulated and soldered to earth are the not to act as some kind of rf interference shielding ?? (Edit:@8:03 in video)
I have an rx-v1000 i bought from a thrift shop that has the same problem as the one you repaired a couple years ago. I even bought the cap but just haven't attacked it yet.
At 9:39, there are some 120VAC relays visible, even though this seems to be a 240VAC unit?
You need teach these folks to put the stuff on floor next to the dumpster so you don't have to dig it out. Not as much fun but that way you won't miss anything.
most of those "useless boards" are used to keep cables away from what provides heat, like power heatsinks
:0 Great Find! I Have A Rx-v479. One Step Down From That One. It's Awesome. I Cant Seem To Figure Out Why Out Of The Box, When I Change HDMI Inputs , All My Speakers Get A Static Sort Of Clicking And The Channels On The Display Flash With The Clicking Tho.
thumbs up for you mate