Yamaha DRX 1

Advantages: Great home theatre sound, fantastic value for money
Disadvantages: Unattractive styling, somewhat bulky

...My Home Theatre was a reasonable system by any measure and better than most. However, my wife re-arranged the living room furniture and in one stroke my cherished system was made redundant. My two rear wall mounted speakers were now on my left and with no possibility to be mounted somewhere else. It was time to look at the Polk & Yamaha products. Unable to audition a Polk SurroundBar and Yamaha YSP-1000 in an A/B comparison, I consequently decided to purchase both, with the idea that I would eventually keep one and sell the other. I have now had both units for about 10 weeks and when doing my A/B comparisons, both systems are set up so that one speaker is sitting just above the other, playing the same material at the same volume and with instant A/B switching via remote control. Note - It takes quite a few readings... Read review

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Advantages: quality low noise reliabilty power appearance amazing clarity high end performance
Disadvantages: none for a classic amp

...Its an amp that changes the face of your listening entirely if you have been using lesser equipment..no matter what it cost. The AX 500 makes a high fidelity sound way above its considerable cost when released by yamaha..and puts all of its contemporaries in the shade. Its an imposing box, though like all of the natural sound range pulls that off with elegance. The sleek lines are very dark hi-fi and blends in nicely anywhere.Its hansome, heavyweight and shakes the foundations. How yamaha achieve such cleaness of sound,musicality and such fabulous signal to noise ratio is said to be down to the sheer precision of thier manufacturing. Their products are incredibly long lived delivering all of the original performance. They achieve this with hi-fi, much of which is now getting on over 60 years old and has cult collectable status... Read review

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Advantages: Clear, Loud Sound.
Disadvantages: Not suitable for a small room.

...These speakers were more expensive than the original speakers I bought, (wharfdale 7.1) but as the old saying goes, you get what you pay for. First off, I really like the way they look. The brown box and speaker cover have really grown on me. They look simple yet elegant. Installing them isn't as easy as my old ones, because they are larger and heavier, but once that is done it has been fine. The sound is very clear and precise. Whatever I listen to, the speakers seem to take it in there stride, from songs with a lot of base to voices on radio four. If I turn up the volume its my ears that break before the speakers do. I listened to these speakers in a sound room before I bought them from Richer Sounds, and to me, these speakers seemed to project a bigger sound than others, which is what I like. The only real... Read review

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