Yamaha AV amplifier reviews

Yamaha DSP-A1000 AV amplifier
Yamaha DSP-A1000 AV amplifier

Back in 1986, Yamaha introduced what was probably the very first home digital sound-field processor, the DSP-1. Yamaha's engineers had measured the acoustical characteristics of a wide variety of concert halls and other establishments where music was performed. Then, using digital signal processing and...
Yamaha DSP-A2070 AV amplifier
Yamaha DSP-A2070 AV amplifier

A veritable tour de force of digital signal processing, Yamaha's new top integrated amplifier, the DSP-A2070, shows what can be done when a company takes a good hard look at the connection, switching, and signal-processing demands of an elaborate home theater setup. The A2070 has, for example, connections...
Yamaha DSP-A3090 AV amplifier
Yamaha DSP-A3090 AV amplifier

Hard on the heels of Yamaha's first venture into Dolby Digital (AC-3), the RX-V2090 A/V receiver and DDP-1 AC-3 decoder, comes its second-generation AC-3 componentry: the DSP-A3090 integrated amplifier with built-in Dolby Digital decoder. I'm pleased to report that the new unit has solved the bass-management...
Yamaha DSP-A590 AV amplifier
Yamaha DSP-A590 AV amplifier

Although the Yamaha DSP-A590 is the "youngest" model in the company's AV amplifier family, it has an extremely solid and immediately respectable appearance. Inside this powerful gray box is Yamaha's DSP sound processor, which stands for Digital Soundfield Processing (not Digital Signal Processing, as...
Yamaha DSP-AX2 AV amplifier
Yamaha DSP-AX2 AV amplifier

DSP is a great power in multi-channel sound of home cinema: it is able to form a frequency response of any shape, add strictly dosed reverberation or time delay, mix existing channels, synthesize new ones in any proportions and so on. Yamaha itself writes algorithms for Digital Sound Processing, produces...