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Marantz AV7702mkII Processor Review

May 13, 2016 by Chris Heinonen 4 Comments

It’s hard to find the point of diminishing returns correctly. If you aim for too low of a price point on a product, you might leave off a feature that is too important to be without. Of course if you can’t decide when to stop adding features, the price escalates out of control. Knowing what […]

Yamaha CX-A5100 Processor Review

November 30, 2015 by Chris Heinonen 4 Comments

After a period of massive changes, it looks like things will slow down a bit on the AV receiver and preamp front. In the past two years we’ve seen Dolby Atmos, DTS:X, HDMI 2.0a with HDR and Wide Color Gamut become available. These new standards, along with a push to better implement wireless audio streaming, […]

Emotiva XSP-1 Review

November 14, 2013 by Chris Heinonen Leave a Comment

Audiophiles will endlessly debate about objective vs. subjective. To the objectivists, if you can’t measure a difference with a test instrument you shouldn’t be able to hear one in life.  Subjectivists will tell you that we don’t listen with instruments, but with our ears. Given that we don’t fully understand the human hearing system, how […]

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