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In Reply to: RE: Sony TA-A1ES vs Yamaha A-S2000 Integrated Amps ? posted by AbeCollins on July 23, 2014 at 16:35:27:
Abe, the Yamaha is a nice sounding unit, no question. The balanced floating design sounds excellent with the right component. However, the A-S2000 has one major design flaw you won't read about in any of the reviews. The flaw is, the XLR input overloads at anything over 2.8 V! As fate would have it, the matching CD-S2000 only puts out 2.8 V in XLR. So, as long as you use it, no worries. However, most XLR is 4.2 volts, hence a overload condition.The Electrocompaniet sounds better overall, pretty much across the board. The bass is slightly deeper (and tight), the midrange is cleaner sounding, and the treble is quite a bit better, with no sizzle compared to most SS. It also has two XLR inputs on the PI-2, or one and a built in DAC for the PI-2D. The matching ECC-1 CD player is one of the very best sounding CD players I've come across. The detail from the 24 bit DAC is better than most of the 9018ESS machines. I'm certain it's the superior analog stages.
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Edits: 07/24/14
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- RE: Sony TA-A1ES vs Yamaha A-S2000 Integrated Amps ? - Freo-1 13:04:13 07/24/14 (2)
- XLR inputs on consumer gear - Serge_S 17:17:52 04/16/15 (0)
- RE: Sony TA-A1ES vs Yamaha A-S2000 Integrated Amps ? - AbeCollins 10:18:01 07/26/14 (0)
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