We really like the fact that listening to demanding music at home now offers thousands of options, thus serving the widest range of needs. Variations in preamps, power amplifiers, DACs, network players, and the cables that connect them can only be limited by imagination, bank account, and woman.

Yamaha home theater amplifiers have been revamped, we've covered a piece of news about this before. For the first time, entry and mid-range models will hit store shelves, with larger Aventage copies expected by the end of the year. The three-digit names in the RX-V series will thus be eliminated, transformed, and reduced, but the company claims...