Yamaha SR-C20A review: Design & usabilityĪ big part of the SR-C20A’s charm lies in how small it is: at just 600圆4x94mm (23-5/8x2-1/2x3-3/4 inches) it looks like a scale model of a soundbar.
In most everyday circumstances, though, the Yamaha has enough across-the-board talent to make it a leader for the price. If it’s out-and-out volume you’re interested in, you may want to cast your net a little wider. There’s a shortage of rhythmic certainty here, mind you, and it can make the SR-C20A sound a bit ungainly when musical rhythms and tempos get even mildly complex.Ī good deal of the Yamaha’s poise abandons it when you start to really crack the volume, though, and its confidence is replaced by a rather haphazard rush to get all the information to the front of the stage. Detail levels are good, staging is convincing and the frequency range is nicely integrated.
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And as with its movie reproduction, the soundstage it creates is big enough and, crucially, well defined enough to make a sonic layout obvious.īroadly speaking it’s equally successful when listening to music. The ability to switch, sonically speaking, between ‘stealth’ and ‘shock and awe’ is important in games of all types, and the SR-C20A is deep-breathing enough to put proper distance between those two states. Switch to the soundtrack of a console game – any game – and the Yamaha has the dynamic headroom to make the most of it. There’s always a balance to be struck, sonically speaking, and the SR-C20A strikes it dead centre. And in the midrange, where the overwhelming majority of a movie soundtrack exists, there are similar levels of refinement and attack. At the opposite end there’s plenty of bite and substance to treble sounds, but no lack of poise or dexterity.
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There’s definite width and even a suggestion of height to the sound it serves up.ĭetail levels are high, and even at the bottom of the frequency range the Yamaha differentiates textures and tones well – which by no means a given in soundbars at the sort of money, regardless of their driver array.
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Which is pretty much how it proves.Ĭonnected to a TV via the HDMI ARC socket, the Yamaha is a far more spacious, well-defined and sturdier listen than any TV that doesn’t have a bespoke integrated speaker array (which is pretty much all of them, especially if you're looking at TVs under £1000 or TVs under $1000). We’ve already established that the SR-C20A, thanks to its small dimensions, light weight and very businesslike specification, is designed to do a job in any and all circumstances.
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