I have just bought a pristine second hand Yamaha DSP-A592home cinema amp from Richer Sounds for £135. This uses yamaha's natural sound technology, and whilst I had previously never attributed much to that badge, the sound does seem to be a lot better than the Sherwood 1010RX stereo receiver I used to use. I find the amp sounds very good in both stereo and surround modes, but suffers from not having any digital inputs, and thus only has prologic decoding. It does however sound good when decoding the analogue inputs from my tv. It manages to get round the problem of not having digital inputs via having a discrete 6 channelanalogue input, which does sound very good coming from the dolby digital decoder in my Limit dvd player. If you are looking for a very good sounding amp, and have a decoder built into your dvd player, this is a very good amp to buy if you can find one. It sound very good in normal stereo, and has a good remote control and a well written manual. It supports two centre speakers, so if you cannot fit a centre speaker under or above your tv, you can put a centre either side of it and still get the same effect. It is nice and powerful, being 70wpc for the front and centre speakers and 35wpc for the rear speakers. It has 9 different inputs, so you can hook anything upto it. If you are looking for a nice piece of kit, but are looking for sumthing a bit newer and with digital inputs you should go and check out the other yamaha DSP range, especially the A5 as that is the succesor to my machine and is only another £140. GO and check them out..... and see if you can hear the 'natural sound'...
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