John P. Falcone is the senior director of commerce content at CNET, where he coordinates coverage of the site's buying recommendations alongside the CNET Advice team (where he previously headed the ...

Yamaha has announced five new receivers for 2008, ranging from the budget $230 RX-V363 to the $1,000 RX-V863, which features HD Radio and three HDMI inputs. Matthew Moskovciak Senior Associate Editor ...

The demo of Yamaha's proprietary Compressed Music Enhancer feature was impressive. They connected a spectum analyzer to the output of the receiver to measure the bandwidth of a 128kbps mp3 music file.

It’s not just TVs that are having to ‘spec up’ to cope with the promised capabilities of the next generation of games consoles and PCs. Makers of AV receivers are also having to take gaming into ...

Yamaha Electronics Corporation, the innovator in home theater and digital audio and video reproduction, today introduced its RX-V2065 7.1-channel network AV receiver (130 W x 7; MSRP: $1399.95). The ...

MusicCast Surround allows a user to build an A/V receiver-based 5.1-channel surround sound system with wired speakers for the front channels (Front Left, Center, Front Right) and wireless speakers for ...