The Sony TA-AN1000 doesn’t stray too far from the design and build of 2017’s STR-DN1080 AVR. The front fascia has lightweight input and volume knobs to the right, and a line of physical buttons below ...

The consumer model STR-AN1000 is a 7.2 channel receiver, comes with Sony’s new 360 Spatial Sound Mapping Technology and is priced at $900. Sony says the STR-AN1000 is “designed to give you an ...

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Sony has delivered an AV amp that has reignited the same excitement that we felt with its last model, here with additional dynamics, scale and accuracy Best AV receivers 2026: the top home cinema ...