Advantages: quality low noise reliabilty power appearance amazing clarity high end performance Disadvantages: none for a classic amp
Its an amp that changes the face of your listening entirely if you have been using lesser equipment..no matter what it cost.
The AX 500 makes a high fidelity sound way above its considerable cost when released by yamaha..and puts all of its contemporaries in the shade.
Its an imposing box, though like all of the natural sound range pulls that off with elegance. The sleek lines are very dark hi-fi and blends in nicely anywhere.Its hansome, heavyweight and shakes the foundations.
How yamaha achieve such cleaness of sound,musicality and such fabulous signal to noise ratio is said to be down to the sheer precision of thier manufacturing. Their products are incredibly long lived delivering all of the original performance. They achieve this with hi-fi, much of which is now getting on over 60 years old and has cult collectable status ...
AUDIOSLAVE1 01.01.2007
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Advantages: Pleasantly open and musical. Disadvantages: No remote control. More knobs than you need.
on the front panel for £29.99. How could I resist. A YamahaAX-430. Couldn't lose could I ?
This old 50(ish) watter probably dates from the late 80's. There are quite a few kicking around on the secondhand market. It's reasonably built with smart black satin finished metal front and a number of knobs including variable "Loudness" and a CD Direct button. On the back are good quality 4mm speaker terminals for two pairs of speakers (switchable).
Variable Loudness alters the tonal response with respect to level. The CD Direct button cuts out the tone and balance controls to the CD input only and definitely improves the sound quality. A shame it doesn't do the same on the other inputs.
After connecting it into the rest of my system at home I found it to be very pleasant and competent sounding and better than would be expected from the usual ...
jonboselr 23.09.2009 (24.09.2009)
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Advantages: Easy to use and very loud Disadvantages: does not have Digital or optical inputs
Hi there I am glad to say that I am a proud owner of the YamahaAX500/u Amplifier. Mine has been in storage nearly all of its life as it was hardly used by my friend so I bought it 6 months ago. And it really looks like it just came from the shop. Probably best condition one I ever seen. Well to get straight to the point. The YamahaAX 500 is an amplifier that is made for Extreme Clarity and loudness for music; I would not recommend this amplifier for watching films everyday as i say it would be a waste of Amplifier , Although it may still sound clear this amp does not have the features to make your home cinema effect. But I will guarantee that once you heard this mean machine it will be music to your ears in the sweetest way.
Features: ALA (Absolute Linear Amplification) is circuitry that gives high end sound and gives you ...
brentek 11.10.2007 (13.10.2007)
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