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Harman Kardon's AVR 755 is claimed to be the world's first AV receiver to include Dolby Volume technology, which promises to improve the listening experience by levelling the volume from any source and programme material while maintaining optimum sound quality at any audible level.

Not happy with that, the 7.2-channel AVR 755 is also the first receiver to uses the latest gen Texas Instruments Aureus DA710 audio digital signal processor in a dual-DSP implementation, which significantly ramps up processing power and multi-channel audio performance.

What Harman Kardon is getting at then is that this is the company's top-of-the-line receiver. Other features include (albeit more briefly) Dolby TrueHD lossless support, 1080p upscaling, exclusive Hi-Def full colour multi-lingual GUI, seven channels of 110 Watts of power into 8 ohms and 'many additional enhancements'.

Amazingly despite cramming all this tech in, the 755 looks positively svelte in comparison to some of its weightier rivals and we like the unobtrusive two-tone styling.

Available in January 2009, the only other thing we wait for with baited breath is the price.

harman.com