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Mark Muschett puts Yamaha's TSS1 Dolby Digital / DTS 5.1 speaker system to the test |
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Mark Muschett - Last updated June 21, 2001
Introduction Yamaha is a name very familiar to many audio fans with their extensive line of hi-fi equipment as well as their line of multimedia speaker systems, several of which have received a fair bit of critical acclaim. This year Yamaha delivered their first multi-channel entry into the multimedia market in the form of the 5.1 configured TSS1. This system is particularly interesting for a couple of reasons. Not only is it currently the only integrated multimedia system to offer both DTS decoding and 4 channel analog inputs, it also delivers it's extensive feature set at a very aggressive MSLP of US$250. Even more impressive is the Canadian MSLP of CAN$300.00 a price that puts it over CAN$100 below the Canadian retail street price of the DTT3500. The TSS1 Canadian retail price works out to about US$200 which is the US street price of the system. While the DTS capability might be the attention grabber the system also features Dolby Digital and Dolby Pro Logic decoding and has an amplified headphone output that features Yamaha's Silent Cinema virtualization for surround material. Even if you ignore the DTS capability the Yamaha TSS1 comes at a lower suggest list price than any other mainstream Dolby Digital system on the market that we are aware of. It's also only slightly more expensive than many of the decoder-less 4.1 speaker system that you might consider as alternatives. In this review we set out to determine what kind of sound quality you can expect from such a feature packed system at such a low price point. On top of our usual full suite of subjective and objective tests using a variety of materials and tools we also compare the system to a variety of other systems including the Creative/Cambridge SoundWorks DTT2500 and DTT3500 to see how it shakes out. So on to detailed overview and installation
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