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So tonight I'd figure .. what the heck...
I turned off the M-80 Yamaha, yanked the Nakamichi AV-1 off the shelf, and fed the Carver's pre-amp outputs to the Nak's main in (it has jumpers for all 5 channels, as it's a dolby 5.1 surround amp).
Nice and smooth... but full and robust at the same time. Dare I say it may just sound better than the Yamaha? I keep on praising that AV-1, and tonight just reinforced my impression of it. It has an amp section that was built right around the same period as when Nak was using the Stasis designs. Not quite a "Stasis" amp, but instead it has what Nak calls a "Harmonic Time Alignment" circuitry.
Seriously folks, if you can get an AV-1 on the cheap, check it out. The 100 watt rating is a big understatement methinks as well...
I turned off the M-80 Yamaha, yanked the Nakamichi AV-1 off the shelf, and fed the Carver's pre-amp outputs to the Nak's main in (it has jumpers for all 5 channels, as it's a dolby 5.1 surround amp).
Nice and smooth... but full and robust at the same time. Dare I say it may just sound better than the Yamaha? I keep on praising that AV-1, and tonight just reinforced my impression of it. It has an amp section that was built right around the same period as when Nak was using the Stasis designs. Not quite a "Stasis" amp, but instead it has what Nak calls a "Harmonic Time Alignment" circuitry.
Seriously folks, if you can get an AV-1 on the cheap, check it out. The 100 watt rating is a big understatement methinks as well...