"Scott Dorsey" wrote in message
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David Nebenzahl wrote:

Maybe you missed the earlier post where someone gave some of the
published specs for this amp. One of them was 0.01% THD. If true, I
would think that would be plenty good enough for studio use, assuming
the other specs are on par with it.

These actually aren't such bad amplifiers, and they are better than a lot
of the stuff sold today as (ahem) monitor amps.

But full power THD specs don't tell you anything useful these days. In
fact, if you compare something like the Yamaha to a something like the
Aragon or Levinson amp with the same power rating, you'll find they sound
different and that a lot of this has to do with the lower output impedance
of the better amp as well as the coloration in the electronics.

On the other end of the scale, the Yamaha probably sounds a lot better
than an Alesis RA-100 for the same reasons.
--scott

The Alesis RA-100 was an attempt to build an accurate studio amp for those
who couldn't afford a good studio amp, and it did this fairly well. There
are probably many hifi amps that sound better than the Alesis and some of
them might even make better studio monitor amps, but none of them are as
low-priced as the Alesis. In my experience, all the Yamaha Natural Sound
equipment colors the sound to some extent, that's part of their "nautral"
sound.