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Yamaha MusicCast BAR 400

As we’ve seen in these reviews, most soundbars offer some way to stream music as well as watch movies — if a soundbar is to be the audio centrepiece of the modern lounge, then it should be able to do both. Yamaha’s bar here not only proves music-friendly, it includes the company’s wireless multiroom platform MusicCast, which allows it to become part of an extended musical home.

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What a bemusing collection of logos adorn the modern soundbar! So many technologies. But let’s deal with the physicalities first. Yamaha’s Bar 400 comprises the main soundbar to sit in front

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