Yamaha YSP-4000 Review
By Ian Bell
January 28, 2008
is it possible to get surround sound imaging from a single speaker bar? It is when you have 40 smaller speakers making up that bar. Find out why the Yamaha YSP-4000 needs to date your flat panel TV. It's love at first sight.
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"The concept is simple and brilliant: Mount an array of small speakers in one central location and aim them such that they reflect sound off the walls. By doing this just right, the effect can fool the listener into thinking there are speakers positioned around them at all angles. If you’re a tech geek scorned by previous interesting=sounding speaker technology that never delivered, you’re probably skeptical – a perfectly healthy reaction. Therefore we’re happy to put the Yamaha YSP-4000, the flagship model by the company that invented the genre, through the same scrutiny as a full-fledged 5.1 speaker system, and compare the sound quality and localization to a number of speaker configurations. "
Read our full Yamaha YSP-4000 Review