AV amplifier reviews

Harman/Kardon AVI 150 AV amplifier

The appearance of this "gentleman" of America can be described in one word - elegance. If you need a more extensive description, here it is, please: the elegance, impeccable style and high quality performance. We begin with the appearance: large "black box" with a massive motorized volume control knob,...
NAD AV 316 AV amplifier

Model AV-316 from NAD's strict and laconic. Made in accordance with the traditions of the company NAD - the highest quality at a given price, it has a minimal set of functions and settings. In appearance, this AV-amplifier - a typical representative of the equipment NAD: the same strict rectangular housing...
Onkyo A-SV420 AV amplifier

The external appearance of the Model A-SV420 immediately evokes nostalgic memories of audio equipment 70-80 years. Unlike most modern devices with rounded corners and convex front panels, Onkyo is designed explicitly "cubist" style, and consists of nothing but right angles and planes: a completely flat...
Pioneer VSA-805S AV amplifier

Solid and respectable gives VSA-805S wide hinged lid-filter at the bottom of the front panel that hides the display of the amplifier and the rotary control knob select a surround mode Jog Dial. But the number of buttons on the remote control more than compensates for their modest set on the amplifier....
Sony TA-VE700 AV amplifier

By AV-amplifier can be easily connected to virtually all available in your home audio and video equipment. Judge: 4 audio and 4 video inputs, including a standard S-VHS. Of course, there is the video input on the front panel and also S-VHS. So that the plug - and conquer! By the number of computer...
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

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

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

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

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...