All Musiccast Products Available Here
Today Yamaha has announced a groundbreaking change in the way they do Multi-Room Audio. Basically, every single Yamaha device will be able to be used as a zone in an extremely flexible whole house multi-room system
"No other system provides access to all your content and such a wide range of listening experiences.”
Key Highlights:
- Every forthcoming Yamaha Device will support being a Musiccast device
- Includes RX-S601 slimline amplifier, RX-A1050 theater amplifier etc.
- You can use Bluetooth speakers as Musiccast Outputs
- Play sound from your TV through a pair of Bluetooth headphones
- Current RX-Axx50 Series components are supported
- All connected sources (including streamers and turntables) can be shared to any of the zones:
- Play TV / Sky sound through your kitchen speakers
- Turntable from the study into the outdoor speakers
- Play your Spotify stream to kitchen, living room, bathroom and outdoors simultaneously
- Play your Blu-Ray Sound through your surround sound system and through your bluetooth portable speaker at the same time
- Extremely Slick App - Easier than any other on the market
- Flexible whole home solution - Because access to all functions is so simple, Musiccast is powerful but usable for everyday people.
- Range includes Cost effective mini systems and High End Home Theater Seperates
- Support for a wide range of streaming services and airplay.
- Spotify
- Pandora
- Airplay
- Any app on your phone like Youtube, 8track, Soundcloud - via Bluetooth
Currently Models that will be supported:
RX-V479, RX-V579, RX-V679, RX-V779, RX-A550, RX-A750, RX-A850, RX-A1050, RX-A2050, RX-A3050, RX-A780, RX-A880, RX-A1080, RX-A2080, RX-A3080
CX-A5100, RX-S601, RX-S602, YSP-1600, SRT-1500, YSP-5600, NX-N500
Some of the new products include:
- Traditional Stereo Receivers
- Slimline AV Receivers
- AV Pre / Power Combo
- Mini Systems
- Standalone Speakers
- Soundbars
- Active Speakers
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Some of Yamaha's Recently announced Musiccast Products |
Let's give it a go!
Update your theater receivers
- This is a pretty easy process, the easiest way is to use the front panel controls:
- When the amplifier is off, press the "straight" and "stand-by" buttons at the same time. This brings up the "advanced set up menu"
- Press the "program" buttons until firmware update appears
- Press "straight" until "network" appears
- Press the "Info" Button to confirm
- The Update then starts and will take approximately 20 Minutes
Download the "Musiccast" app
- Search for : "Musiccast"
- Available for Apple iOS and Android in both phone and tablet form factors
Set up "Musiccast"
- Press the Settings Wheel then Select "Add New Device"
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- Name the Room that is the first zone of the product you have just connected and give it a useful image
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- The room is set up. If the product you connected has a second zone, you can easily add it in the settings wheel
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- Both of new rooms have appeared! Now let's add another home theater receiver from the shop...
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As easy as that! Now we're ready to play music to whatever area of the shop we would like from whatever source we would like!
That was much easier than I anticipated. Now for some fun playing around with it. We will update this article as more information is released.
Further information:
- Official Yamaha Release
- What Hi-Fi News Article
- Yamaha Musiccast Setup Guide (.pdf Format; 851Kb)uide
