Yamaha RX-530

Documentation on the Yamaha RX-530 is thin. What the record shows comes from a handful of contemporary magazine features and test reports.

The RX-530 was a medium-priced receiver that reached the U.S. market in mid-1989, built at Yamaha's Hamamatsu factory. The same issue (p.54) noted the receiver's black finish, part of a trend Yamaha had started over a decade earlier, and mentioned a new "titanium-color" front panel that would soon appear on other models.

By March 1990, Julian Hirsch of Hirsch-Houck Laboratories had tested the RX-530 for HiFI-Stereo (March 1990, p.43). The receiver had a motor-driven volume knob that also worked from the remote, and dual rocker-type pushbuttons for many controls. From the remote handset you could switch inputs, select preset channels, and adjust volume. It measured 17⅛ inches wide, 11⅛ inches deep and 5 inches high, and weighed 12 pounds, 5 ounces. Price at the time was $399.

No further specifications have surfaced in the available sources. That includes power output, FM sensitivity and harmonic distortion. Production years and total run are unrecorded.