Reinventing surround sound
Yamaha’s MusicCast platform has proven one of the most successful at connecting together multiple devices in different rooms for multiroom music playback. And Yamaha has given it a wide ecosystem, putting MusicCast not only in to the usual selection of wireless speakers and soundbars, but also into its amplifiers and receivers, into an ever-widening selection of lifestyle products, even across divisions into a piano, augmenting the technical tour de force which is the Yamaha Disklavier Enspire.
MusicCast has long been a bonus feature in the company’s soundbars and AV receivers, but in its original version this was focused on bringing music to these systems and linking them with other rooms. The introduction of ‘MusicCast Surround’ last year aims to change that, extending the system to movies and surround sound, connecting together devices in the same room, as well as other devices situated around the home.
In this way you can use MusicCast to create a surround system in a fairly way. Having all the surround speakers permanently wired up has become one of the barriers against having surround in a modern living room. But
