Receivers & Amplifiers

Since one of our Best Custom Trucks uses this amp in its audio system we thought readers might appreciate reading this review...

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If I have any reservations with the RD-7503 it comes down to documentation. The typical user of this receiver will either be someone new to home theater or someone upgrading from an older product. Given that audience, I would like to see the...

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Integra's 7.1 channel, THX Ultra 2 Plus certified DTR-9.9 receiver is incredibly complete in its feature set. Receiving a great deal of positive coverage, reviews often stated that the biggest downside to the DTR-9.9 was that it offered too much,...

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Pass Laboratories exhibited its high-end XP-10 and XP-20 2-channel preamplifiers which feature Pass Labs signature beveled billet aluminum front panels.

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This pairing rocked in it's original guise, and now they're both even better, the amp especially. As a team I have no idea what you might prefer in their price bracket - they just seem ridiculously competent.

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Parasound has introduced a $2000 audio only preamp designed for soundpurists seeking superior low-noise performance from classic stereo sources aswell as multichannel music and movies from Blu-ray, DVD-Audio,and SACD players. It will be marketed in the...

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For some years, Musical Fidelity's Antony Michaelson has been banging on about the need for more power than has been considered necessary by the audio community. It wasn't just the single-ended triode brigade that incensed him, with claims for the......

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While many new technologies have been incorporated into A/V receivers over the last few years, perhaps the biggest change we've seen in these traditionally audio-based components is the inclusion of advanced video processing. Just a few years ago,...

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Introduction There are some products and/or brands that seemingly need no introduction. McIntosh is at the top of the list. Throughout the 1970s, McIntosh was the iconic symbol of all things good and high-end when it came to two-channel music. Today,...

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The Pioneer Susano SC-LX90 home theatre amplifier is simply excellent in just about every way. Unless you simply, absolutely, must have radio, you're unlikely to be disappointed. Except, now that I think about it, can you still purchase a separate...

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Eric Dolphy is still playing off the thumb drive as I finish this piece. Oh, right, that's why I got into this business.

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Never has the field been so full of top-quality A/V Receivers and the competition is fierce among the top manufacturers for these types of components. It used to be that low-end models kept costs down by eliminating features and seriously compromising...

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Keep on with the good work.

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In the past two decades, a slow evolution has taken place in audio, as top-notch designers come more and more to understand the nature of the beasts they are working with. Today it is not hard to put together a system that is clean and musical, and...

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Jungson's JA-88D looks like a power amplifier but it's not. It appears that Jungson was caught out by a high consumer demand for integrated amplifiers at a time when it was primarily producing separate pre and power amplifiers. The company judged that...

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Despite minor shortcomings, an amp that can be a very rewarding listen

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The CA-M400 is primarily about control, something it exerts in a remarkably calm yet revealing fashion. Some will feel that this sounds like a lack of dynamics but in truth it means that the amp can deliver all the required power without having to...

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Both the G61 and G55 are in Meridian's lower priced (for them) G-Series line. Nevertheless, these are high performance, audiophile quality products. Their handsome exteriors, available in either black or brushed aluminum, are built to fortress-like...

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The Tuatoro is one of the more “tweakable” of the high-end preamps I've auditioned. This could be viewed as extraneous, but I did not find that to be the case. It allows any user to experiment and tune the Tautoro for his own system and personal...

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Marantz' sales lit asks whether this is an audiophile's AVR or a videophile's AVR. Of course this is their way of saying it intends to be both, and they might well be right. This AVR boasts ample power, a typically Marantz overbuilt chassis and power...

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Products engineered in Germany have always held a fascination for me. Whether it's the quirky styling of a German motorcycle...

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While Sunfire's Bob Carver isn't quite the household name that Apple's Steve Jobs is, he absolutely qualifies as a bona fide audio legend. Carver's greatest hits range from his early high-power amplifier, the 350-watt-per-channel Phase Linear 700, to...

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$2,000 170-Watts x 7 into 8 ohms Processing Modes: DD, DD-EX, ProLogicIIx, Dolby Virtual Speaker, Dolby Headphone, DTS, DTS-ES/Discrete/Matrix/Neo: 6, DTS 24/96 Features We Like: HDMI, component and i.LINK switching, transcoding of analog video to...

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