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Yamaha HTY-750: Surround sound in one small speaker

Crave If you long for the auditory joy of surround sound, but don't want -- or aren't allowed to have -- a multi-speaker setup at home, then you'll relish the opportunity the Yamaha HTY-750 provides: surround sound in one compact box.

5 November 2007, 11:08

Logic3 SoundStage: 5.1 sound, 15 speakers

Crave Not taken with Yamaha's one-piece 5.1 surround-sound system for £1,000? Like Yamaha's YSP-1100, the technology works by bouncing sound around the walls of your living room, eliminating the need for individual speakers that can be problematic to...

Tags: logic3, setup, speakers, yamaha

14 September 2007, 14:23

Yamaha YSP-40D: A surround-sound system in a box

Crave Barely weeks have passed since we reviewed the Yamaha YSP-1100 but there's already a new kid on the block. Yamaha has included a DAB radio in this model, which should interest people looking to totally ditch their hi-fi systems in favour of an all...

Tags: yamaha, output, hdmi, dock

20 August 2007, 11:51

Yamaha MusicCAST MCX-2000: a new caste

Crave If the Sonos Digital Music System is the Ferrari of music-streaming hardware, then the Yamaha MusicCAST MCX-2000 is a Land Rover. Yamaha supplied ours with a selection of plug-points that are designed to be fitted directly into the walls of your home.

Tags: yamaha, walls, hungry, fitted

5 April 2006, 12:28

The box of delights: Apple iPod Hi-Fi

Crave The iPod Hi-Fi sounds equal in tone and clarity to many of the mini-systems we've tested from manufacturers like PURE and Yamaha. Now that the furore over last week's Apple launch has died down, crash investigators have begun picking through the...

Tags: apple, range, mini, fi

9 March 2006, 11:20

Virginal beauty: PURE DMX-50

Crave We preferred the sturdy screw bindings of the Yamaha CRX-M170. Famous for its kitchen radio designs, PURE is to digital radio what Cadbury is to chocolate. This is the company's latest foray into the world of DAB, but unlike previous designs the...

Tags: pure digital, designs, radio, mini

7 March 2006, 14:00

Olive Opus packs music-serving muscle

Crave Olive joins the likes of Hermstedt, Yamaha and Denon in providing a high-end music storage device for those of us who dream of gold-plated phonos and oxygen-free speaker wire. Music servers are invading the consumer electronics landscape with the...

Tags: cds, collection, hard disk, bitrate

2 March 2006, 11:49

Studio in a box: Yamaha AW1600

Crave Yamaha has jammed all of this hootenanny into a single, dedicated, digital music unit. Gone are the days when recording a band on sixteen tracks meant booking Abbey Road. No longer are studios filled with racks of hot valves, reams of tape and mop...

Tags: yamaha, tracks, recording, hardware

19 December 2005, 14:00

The winner of our trip to Las Vegas

Crave We're very happy to announce that James Davies of Cambridge wowed the judges with his Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, glamourous Yamaha YSP 1 virtual surround sound speaker and his category-killing Sky+ hard-drive recorder.

Tags: gadgets, cleaner, american, ces

25 November 2005, 12:53

DABabolical machine: Yamaha CRX-M170

Crave Not only did Yamaha send us this delightful little DAB to review, but they included the largest subwoofer we've ever seen. Update: a full review of the Yamaha CRX-M170 is now live. We've seen big DABs and small DABs, round ones and square ones...

Tags: yamaha, volume, stations, class

23 November 2005, 10:22

LabelFlash: Defies all labels

Crave Yamaha's cooperation with Fujifilm spawned the LabelFlash system earlier this month. More and more manufacturers are adding laser-etching capabilities to their DVD writers. This is an inkless method of labelling your CDs and DVDs.

Tags: dvds, power, disk, laser

4 November 2005, 11:06

Yamaha YSP-1: Fantastic Forty

Crave When the rather heavy Yamaha YSP-1 landed in our lap, after recovering our breath we were heathily sceptical about its surround-sound potential. It seems like the technology might have its limitations, but if you want to avoid the clutter of a true...

Tags: yamaha, virtual, speaker, surround

14 July 2005, 12:08