Just as with guitars, the majority of today's bass models owe allegiance to one or more of the most popular and influential models from the past. But, occasionally, something refreshingly new appears ...

The FP9500 pedals come with a new, double-sided beater - felt/plastic - while the FP8500 pedals ship with Yamaha's classic felt beater. All pedals have rubber inserts in the hoop clamps, so they ...

Compared to the midcentury-style body designs of the basses we’ve seen so far, Yamaha’s BB series of basses—first introduced in the late ’70s—looks a little sleeker, more devilish ...

Cherry Bomb sounded fuller on the Yamaha than the Denon. The song's chugging bass underpinned the percussion in the hands of the V6A and the entire production sounded less thrashy and more composed.

Yamaha has also built this soundbar to deliver deeper bass and it offers built-in subwoofers in a slim package. Can the Yamaha True X Bar 40A soundbar deliver on those promises and be one of the ...

That's fewer drivers than you get in the Sonos Ray (which has four), which may mean less dynamic and clear sound… however, the Sonos Ray's speakers also have to handle bass, and the Yamaha gets ...

But Yamaha’s engineers decided that a 4.1.2-channel arrangement was preferable, because it allows more space in the soundbar to fit the bass drivers they wanted, and allows for a wider sound.

Yamaha refreshed their OSD for the 5200 series and I must say it's well done. Hitting the gear icon on the remote control pulls up the above screen where you can configure your bass management and ...

Both were excellent at pulling dialogue out of the background but the Yamaha bolstered the performance with better bass. The Roku delivers almost no bass (sans the optional sub) but the Yamaha ...

But as hard as Yamaha tried to pack bass into a confined space with passive radiators, the C20A just can’t fill out the low end of the frequency range enough to provide a great movie experience.