Even the people who sell the receivers struggle to explain what the panel heard. The Yamaha RX-V1800 posts 0.008% total harmonic distortion, an 8 dB quieter noise floor, and half the measured distortion of a Pioneer SX-1980 built in 1978. Put both on a spec sheet and the contest is settled before the music starts. Then someone actually played music. A blind listening test in Vancouver in June 2013 sat eight panelists behind a switchbox, level-ma…
This story is only covered by news sources that have yet to be evaluated by the independent media monitoring agencies we use to assess the quality and reliability of news outlets on our platform. Learn more here.