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Giving Receivers
Homepage photo, remotes, and back panels by Tony Cordoza Sure, when it comes to A/V receivers, the $4,000 flagships get most of the attention in our fantasy lives, and the $399 loss-leaders get most of...
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Shopping for Gear: Receivers vs. Separates
Ask the average guy in the street what makes a home theater a home theater and you're likely to hear one of two answers: "A honkin' big screen" or "Five (or six or seven) speakers." It would be hard to...
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HT Guide To AVR Features
Essential Audio FeaturesBasic Surround Decoding Today's AVRs feature a ton of surround decoding features from Dolby and DTS, from basic 5.1-channel surround decoding to several ways of decoding stereo...
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Designing Your System
Choosing components that work for you. You've been saving forever, it seems, and now you can finally get some gear for the home theater you've been building. There's a dizzying array of different home...
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HT Guide to AV Receivers
The A/V receiver is your home theater’s central nervous system. All cables and connections to and from your other components are likely to run through your AVR. It will manage and switch the A/V...
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Are You Ready for the Heavy Artillery? A friend who went to college in the late 1960s told me that everyone in his dorm fell into one of two absolutely opposing groups: those who blasted the Who’s...
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How to Choose a Home Theater for Movies or Music
Selecting audio components is one of the more daunting tasks that any serious home theater enthusiast faces. On the surface, it seems evident that if you just go out and buy the best components you can...
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How to Buy an A/V Receiver
Of all the components in your home theater system, none gets more playtime than your audio/video receiver. But buying an AVR can be daunting for home theater newbies or even seasoned enthusiasts diving...
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Just the Facts: A/V Receiver Shopping & Tech Tips
How much power do I need? Can I use my smartphone as a remote? Before you shop for that new receiver, here’s everything you need to know in a quick-read format. See our Top Receiver Picks.Visit our How...
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Elements of a Home Theater: All the Pieces You’ll Need to Bring it Together
Putting together a home theater can seem like a daunting task. So many pieces to think through and connect up! But if you care enough to do your homework and educate yourself, you’ll find it’s not as...
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How to Buy an A/V Receiver
If there’s been any real change in the home theater audio landscape recently, it’s been the emergence of the anti-AVR. From soundbars to powered tabletop systems to wireless streaming speakers that can...
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How to Buy an AV Receiver
Oh boy, the times, they are a changin’. With the explosion of integrated soundbar offerings—including some pretentious premium models—it would be easy to dismiss the audio/video receiver, once the...
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How to Buy an A/V Receiver
It’s easy in this brave new world of Ultra-Uber-HDR-4K HDTV to forget that the sound is still half—yes, half—of the home theater experience. Even if you’re actually smart enough to know that, and you...
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How to Buy an AV Receiver
Yeah, we keep hearing how the awesomely versatile, stupendously well-performing, and tremendously high-value audio/video receiver is going away, soon to be replaced by all manner of soundbars and...
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Best AV Receivers of 2018
The pursuit of serious home theater demands serious gear and no component is more important than the command center that sits at its core. Of course, we’re talking about the AV receiver (AVR), which in...
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