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Re: Rotel...

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Posted by randyhat on November 12, 2002 at 12:27:20

In Reply to: Re: Rotel... posted by Skullmurdoc on November 12, 2002 at 11:49:38:

"Might be better sounding but like I said I need power. I currently have a Yamaha that push 75 Watts/ 0.08 and its not Enough. the Rotel is the same with 0.09 harmonic distortion"

The 75wpc Rotel might actually have MORE power than the 110wpc Yamaha. Rotel measures their power very conseratively. Unfortunately, one of the most common shell games in the mid-fi AV receiver market these days is the inflation of power ratings. It all depends on how the power ratings are determined. There has been considerable discussion on this topic at the AVSForum http://www.avsforum.com. Yamaha is by no means the only one to do this....and I would not dismiss the Yamaha necessarily for this reason. They are not really falisfying the measurements they are just being very selective in the way they are making them.

Again, there may be other reasons to choose the Yamaha over the Rotel 1055 but power is not one of them...IMO. But really, you do need to try to do a head to head comparison...preferably in your listening room and then judge for yourself.

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