On the AV Rant Podcast, I'm often asked about gear to purchase. Home theater gear is generally a non-trivial purchase for people. Most folks have to save up for a period of time in order to buy the ...

All of the usual HEOS capabilities remain, like app-controlled multiroom music streaming from a variety of popular services like Pandora, Spotify, TuneIn, SiriusXM, Amazon Music, Tidal, iHeartRadio, ...

Canadian AV brand Anthem has become the latest manufacturer to unveil a range of HDMI 2.1-equipped audio products that should be compatible with next-gen gaming sources such as the Xbox Series X, PS5 ...

TV and home video editor Ty Pendlebury joined CNET Australia in 2006, and moved to New York City to be a part of CNET in 2011. He tests, reviews and writes about the latest TVs and audio equipment.

Let’s face it. We live in a world of instant gratification. Status quo doesn’t keep us complacent for long. Even when we’ve got great material possessions, we demand newer and better all the time. We ...

If you have a lot of devices to plug into your TV at once, a common solution to that is picking up a receiver. While audio is the big thing for a receiver, it's also a relatively easy way to keep ...

Can Emotiva’s BasX TA2+ revive the stereo receiver? With 135W power, HDMI ARC, balanced inputs, and phono support, it targets modern 2 channel systems.

It seems that the big audio brands are finally catching on to this next-gen gaming thing. A few weeks back Denon announced that it was introducing a range of AV receivers with gaming friendly HDMI 2.1 ...