AV RECEIVERS

Once you decide to get serious about your home cinema, you are going to need a top-quality, well-specified receiver. Here’s our pick of the best…

The home cinema amplifier is the brains and power of any home cinema system and will ensure your TV and movies sound emphatic, detailed and dynamic – and, most importantly, genuinely give you that immersive, cinematic experience. The most crucial thing to consider when buying an AVR is matching it to the size of your surround system and deciding whether to allow for expansion in the future. Plenty of AV receivers now include Dolby Atmos and DTS:X support for adding even more sound channels, with the addition of height channel speakers. Sometimes, these channels can also be deployed as a second zone. The number of HDMI inputs you need is another important factor. Most AVRs come with a glut of HDMI inputs that can pass through 4K (and even 8K) and HDR…

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What Hi-Fi? (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2022

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