AV Receivers

Five honest amplifiers, four 8K inputs, and the right receiver for a 5.1 room with one television. Buy it knowing 4K 120Hz is off until you turn it on for each input, and that 4 ohm speakers sit outside its rating.

• Five power amps, 70W per channel at 8 ohms with two channels driven
• Four HDMI inputs and one output, every one of them 8K/60 and 4K/120
• VRR, QFT and ALLM on all four inputs, HDCP 2.3, eARC on the output

Seven amplifiers, a real phono stage and three 8K inputs at the far end of the row. Wire it wrong and nothing tells you, which is the only hard part of owning one.

• Seven power amps, 75W per channel at 8 ohms with two channels driven
• Dolby Atmos to a 5.1.2 layout, with Dolby height virtualization and DTS Virtual:X for setups without height speakers
• DTS:X, DTS Neural:X and DTS Virtual:X

Two HDMI outputs, the only pair on our shelf, and the widest connection list on it. Sold on a power figure measured at 10 percent distortion, with the strict one printed beside it.

• THX Select certified, 7.2 channels, two HDMI outputs
• Rated 100W per channel at 8 ohms across the audible band with two channels driven; Onkyo also publishes 210W at 6 ohms, 1kHz, 10% with one channel
• THD 0.08% from 20Hz to 20kHz at half power, response 10Hz to 100kHz in Pure Audio

The right box for a turntable, a pair of speakers and a Bluetooth phone, and the wrong box for anything with a screen. Buy it for what it deliberately leaves out, not despite it.

• 90W per channel at 8 ohms across 20Hz to 20kHz at 0.09% THD
• 100W per channel at 8 ohms measured at 1kHz and 1% THD, which is the looser test
• Moving magnet phono input, four analog inputs, FM tuner with 30 presets

In the registry, no review written yet. The claims below come off the maker's own documentation and the live listing.

• 45W per channel at 8 ohms across 20Hz to 20kHz at 0.07% THD
• 70W per channel at 4 ohms measured at 1kHz and 0.7% THD, which is the number on the box
• Two optical and one coaxial digital input, PCM only, to 192kHz/24-bit