Ty Pendlebury has worked at CNET since 2006. He lives in New York City where he writes about TVs and home entertainment. Expertise Ty has worked for radio, print, and online publications, and has ...

To the untrained eye, an AV receiver may just look like a big black box that a bunch of TV and speaker wires run ... we’ve gone ahead and rounded up some of the best AV receivers you can buy.