Oh, I don't think something necessarily has to be expensive for them to review it. I got my Outlaw RR2160 stereo receiver based upon their review of it. It proved helpful, since I couldn't audition an Internet-only (no showrooms) piece like the Outlaw myself. BTW - They were right...
seldom reviews A/V receivers. We made an exception for Arcam's FMJ SR250 ($3600) because it's that unusual two-channel device: one that includes room-correction software, in this case Dirac Live. Many of us who listen in multichannel are comfortable with room correction, but a week doesn...
It’s a 7.1 channel amp, rather than the 9.2 channels we’re more used to seeing at this price, and claims a relatively low 110W of power per channel into eight ohms – the cheaper Yamaha RX-A3030, by contrast, offers a claimed 150W under the same conditions. Even so, it has its...
This is apparent once again with the AVR450, a high-end seven-channel AV receiver that sits between Arcam’sflagship AVR750and the £1,500 AVR380. We loved the AVR750. It lives up to Arcam’s claim that it’s the finest home cinema receiver the company has ever made, offering a r...
(fig.6). Above 3kHz it rose slightly into 4 ohms, to 0.03% at 20kHz. The distortion is predominantly the third harmonic (fig.7), which was slightly higher in the left channel (fig.8, blue trace), but still low in absolute terms. Intermodulation distortion was also very low (fig.9)...
Footnote 1: A primer in Bluetooth audio transmission can be foundhere. I'm sorry but I don't know where I read it. This review got me researching aptX because I'd read the earlier hosanas about it here. That's when I learned all aptX transmissions require the transcode through the "...