Likewise, the YSP-3050 will also block part of the screen unless it is wall-mounted. Interestingly, some of the technology used in the YSP-3050 is borrowed from cold-war era submarines. The YSP-3050 has a built in FM tuner, as well as an XM tuner. The XM tuner has Neural Audio technology, meaning that it can receive XM radio in 5.1 surround sound. It is equipped for use with the Yamaha iPod dock, and has a compressed music enhancer in order to playback MP3 and WMA files with higher quality.