Awesome product. I have two I use to run my deck zone and beach zone. The main advantage is MusicCast. Perfectly synced music through the house and outside. All zones

Perfectly synced music across zones

I bought this to pair with my 2nd generation Echo and a set of Bose 161 speakers in my kitchen. So far, it has delivered exactly what I wanted. I can control it with Alexa and stream music from the Echo easily. I can also pair it with the living room stereo via MusicCast.

I bought this to drive two very good old speakers but without the usual black boxes and cables. The blue tooth feature means I can enjoy my music again in excellent quality and not have to put up with my top end but thin sound system. Best of all I can find all the music I want from the internet.

Small form factor, budget conscious! Very simple to use!

The WXA50 is an excellent amp, which has bags of modern features and is highly flexible. Upon opening the box, I was initially taken aback by how small the unit was. As someone whose only prior experience of an amp was a 1980s VCR-sized technics (which, sadly, no longer works reliably enough to...

If you are the intended audience for the Yamaha MusicCast WXA-50 amplifier, you find A/V receivers too big, black, and boxy. You are happy with two-channel sound but turned off by doghouse-sized stereo amps sitting on the floor. Soundbars may give you Bluetooth, but that isn't enough.

Streams to MusicCast devices; Wi-Fi; AirPlay; Bluetooth; 55 watts per channel; Class D

No headphone jack on amp; No analog input on speaker; Loaded PC may freeze app

Purchased this to power to two Klipsch WA-650 outdoor speakers. All I had to do was hook speakers to the WXA-50 and connect to Apple Airport express and the speakers were playing!! I was a little worried the amp might struggle with such big speakers but wow was I wrong!

Great for Airplay using Airport express; Great power to size; Very easy to set up

Love it. Yamaha sound that I expected t with perfectly executed wifi and airplay etc so that all music I want plays from my iPad. First class.

A lot of multi-room audio speakers are built for convenience and style, rather than pure audio fidelity. The Yamaha MusicCast WXA-50 is a little different. Rather than an integrated all-in-one device, this stereo amplifier lets you hook up your choice of speakers.

Plenty of inputs; Great clarity and bass; Neat and compact

Ugly Wi-Fi antenna; Weedy remote control

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Good all-round amp; Easy to setup and use; Flexible installation; Decent connections; Includes MusicCast; Attractive and well made

Sound is rather restrained; Remote is small and fiddly