Stereo Receiver reviews

Cambridge Audio Sonata AR30 V2 Stereo Receiver

You find out all the attributes of cool musical amplifier in the device of British Cambridge Audio. When you examine it there is a feeling that this is the dead spit of full-sized Hi-Fi component, made in the scale of 1:2. This is also indicated by the positions of control elements, body's proportions...
Denon DRA-325R Stereo Receiver

As can be seen from the specification the DRA-325R is quite compact considering its facilities, although quite heavy. The thought given to panel layout and general ergonomics makes it an easy unit to set up. Once this is done daily usage could not be simpler and it certainly makes an ideal centre-piece,...
Luxman R-117 Stereo Receiver

I was beginning to think there was something wrong with my FM stereo generator-until I measured the FM performance of this top-of-the-line Luxman AM/FM receiver. It not only restored my faith in my lab equipment, but renewed my belief in the ability of some companies to produce all-in-one receivers that...
Marantz SR5023 Stereo Receiver

Marantz will surely appreciate its fans by the design of 2009 year model range. Instead of flat faceplates all new technique has the same expressive profile as components of Premium series. Even such device of entire level as SR5023 looks like stylish and expensive thing. Two large handles, elegant line...
NAD 705 Stereo Receiver

The NAD Model 705, which falls in the middle of the company's receiver lineup, follows the NAD tradition of striving for high performance and functional design at a reasonable price. For example, all NAD amplifiers, whether separate components or part of a receiver, feature what the company calls Power...
NAD 712 Stereo Receiver

As the heroes of American action films say, we have good and bad news for you. Good news: popular English company "NAD" came to new rational policy of mass production, deciding to completely combine the most successful models in its new components. The consumer consciously buys not just a device but...
NAD 7220PE Stereo Receiver

NAD has always eschewed the bells, lights, and whistles approach to audio product design. Judging from its front panel, the 7220PE might well be characterized as the "plain Jane" of stereo receivers. Yet, when you look behind that rather drab front and begin to explore its innovative circuit design,...
NAD 7600 Stereo Receiver

As the only receiver in NAD's Monitor Series, the 7600 may be considered the paterfamilias of the entire line. It is strictly an audio model (though one input is designated for the audio from a video source), and its concentration on performance and value is what we have come to expect from NAD. The...
NAD C 725BEE Stereo Receiver

In the list of Hi-Fi-components of this famous company, until recently one of only two stereo receiver. And recently there was a third - a much more advanced and even somewhere uncompromising model NAD C 725BEE. In the traditional body design packed NAD electronics, not ashamed to even entry-level High...
Rotel RX-1052 Stereo Receiver

The RX-1052 device is significantly more expensive than the integrated amplifier of the same acoustic parameters and it is reasonable. The design of receiver is new design for the company; however it is based on the classical canons. The only unusual detail is the black powerful knobs: it is easy to...
Sherwood RX-772 Stereo Receiver

American Sherwood, based audio engineers Ed Miller back in 1953, one of the few offering a fairly wide range of music lovers to a stereo - in a modern line of as many as five models. However, do not look at the main site of information about RX-772 - it is designed exclusively German division of Europe...
Yamaha R-N402 Stereo Receiver

Yamaha R-N402 like the older model (R-N602) is made in a consistent concept - this is a symbiosis of advanced network technologies and classical approach in the circuitry and in the design. This easily allows the receiver to pretend to the central place in modern musical system. MusicCast technology...
Yamaha R-N602 Stereo Receiver

A prime example of the symbiosis of the latest technological solutions and classical approach in both circuit technics and design is a stereo receiver - Yamaha R-N602. By combining in one case an amplifier on the discrete elements, FM tuner and multimedia network player, which supports the proprietary...
Yamaha R-S202 Stereo Receiver

ôStereo receiver is very popular class of equipment in the 70-ies of the last century, which are called the Golden era of audio. This is the combination of amplifier and tuner in one case. For half a century since then broadcasting has migrated to the Internet, but radio stations still work. This means...
Yamaha RX-1100U Stereo Receiver

Of all the audio-video receivers we've tested to date, the Yamaha RX-1000U is arguably the most sophisticated. It is certainly a far cry from the typical models that combine mediocre audio behavior with basic video switching, all in the hope that the novelty of the combination will obscure the lack of...
Yamaha RX-397 Stereo Receiver

Yamaha stereo receivers passed through fashion for home theaters with the lowest losses and did not die out as a class. Yamaha RX-397 stands out among all by the best equipment/price ratio - at a price two-three times cheaper it almost does not lose to competitors in terms of functionality (even its...
Yamaha RX-797 Stereo Receiver

At the designing of the front side of RX-797 the designers refused from modern minimalism and didn't hide the controls behind a special door. Here there are input selector, the regulations of volume, tone on HF and LF, loudness and linear input selector for connection a tape recorder. On the right side...