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I visited a dealer today and auditioned a Yamaha A-S1100 back-to-back with a Naim Supernait-2. Used my own Naim CDX2 player (with XPS) and the shop's Monitor Audio Gold 200 floorstanders. The shop had just sold their last Yamaha A-S2100, but they said in their experience the 1100 and 2100 sound exactly the same, except that the 2100 has a dedicated headphone amp, which the 1100 lacks.
Whilst I quite liked the Yamaha, and preferred it to the Marantz PM14S1 that I previously tried, I definitely liked the Naim Supernait-2 better. However, the Supernait-2 has no tone controls (and is nearly 3x the price!). I would deifinitely be happy with a Supernait-2 with tone controls, but there is no such thing!
I did wonder whether the Yamaha would improve with "burning in" - any comments from Yamaha owners on this?
Otherwise it's back to the drawing board - what other amps can I try with tone controls? |
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