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In Reply to: Two questions posted by Saurav on April 8, 2001 at 13:50:57:
1) A friend has borrowed my TX-8211 to use because it sounds much better than the recent-model Kenwood receiver she has. I don't think I'll sell it, I'll probably keep it around to have a backup.2) I eliminated NAD from my decision making during the hours of research I did on the net, mostly because my research suggested that NAD has a bias towards having it's lower-range products sound biased towards warmth and euphony, qualities that I am not interested in because of personal preference. I never did demo any NAD products to verify this for myself as there isn't an NAD dealer within 200 miles of me. If the Rotel hadn't been available when I bought it (it had just been discontinued, and my dealer had to order one), AMC's 3050a integrated would have been my second choice, although I wouldn't have been able to demo it in advance, either.
However, I can tell you how the RA-932 sounds, particularly in comparison to the Onkyo. As I mentioned, music from the Rotel sounds so much more realistic than from the Onkyo that it's absurd. The treble is more pure and refined, rings much more clearly, and has more shimmer, while being less brash and hard sounding. The midrange is noticeably thicker and fuller, rounder, sounds much smoother, and has greater resolution, being much less muddy. The bass is deeper, tighter, stronger, and more controlled. Until I got the Rotel, I didn't realize that there's a disconnect of sorts in the Onkyo at the transitions between bass and mids, and again between mids and treble. The Rotel is smooth through these transitions. The Rotel also has a much wider soundstage, adds a degree of soundstage depth which the Onkyo doesn't have at all, sounds faster, livelier, punchier, more natural/organic and less electronicky, and has better instrument definition and detail. Few of these improvements are subtle, most are very blatantly obvious and significant. Again, as I said, the Onkyo is good for what it is, but what the Onkyo is doesn't compare to what the Rotel is. That's why I think that, at your price point, replacing your receiver with something commensurate in quality to your current speakers would be a wiser and more cost-effective choice than buying more expensive speakers and keeping your current receiver.
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- Two answers - Todd B. 02:41:11 04/09/01 (3)
- Re: Two answers - Saurav 11:54:53 04/09/01 (2)
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