If you want to connect your new TV to a soundbar or receiver, the easiest way to do it is with an HDMI cable. Nearly all modern TVs and audio gear have an HDMI feature called Audio Return Channel. ARC ...

Old setup was as follows: Lenovo W520 connected to TV using a passive DP to HDMI adapter. Audio was fed from the TV to the Harman Kardon receiver with digital coax. Audio worked fine, no delays. Then ...

This is an AV issue, but looks to be Mac-specific, so posting here rather than in the A/V Club. Sorry for the length, but I'm trying to supply all relevant info) Summary: I have an MBP connected via ...

[Phil] picked up an HD radio receiver when Radio Shack was clearing them out at a 60% discount. But to his disappointment, when he hooked it up the sound left a lot to be desired with limited ...

Over the years, there have been plenty of different ways to get audio into an AV receiver as part of your home theater setup. For components like DVD players, this was always fairly straightforward: ...

The May 2000 issue of Sound & Vision included test reports on two high-end receivers: the Yamaha RX-V1 by Daniel Kumin and the Denon AVR-4800 by David Ranada. It was brought to our attention that ...

Figure 1 Selecting the correct device lets you configure a differential line receiver with programmable self-test capability. Click to enlarge. Because the output stage of the LM339 is an ...

It has been a good few years since Sony released a new AVR (Audio/Video Receiver). With news in 2020 of one of their manufacturing plants in Malaysia shuttering some folks speculated that Sony was ...