Yamaha SR-C30A

AV SOUND SOUNDBAR OF THE YEAR UNDER $500 It has been a spectacular year for soundbars; we are recognising six of them here, although one is a returning former champion. Not so many years back we were barely recommending a soundbar at all — they were a compromise solution for those who didn’t want real speakers in their home, and for many long years they invariably sounded like the compromise they were. So it’s a delight to find multiple approaches now achieving very listenable results. Yamaha was always a leader in the field, of course, with multidriver beamforming soundbars, but in the last couple of years the Japanese company has also achieved remarkable results down at the very level where compromise usually kicks in. Last year we applauded the SR-C20A,…

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