Got my Yamaha PS2500S Amp in today...

[Feanor]

Wow, this amp rocks and I can highly recommend it for home use. It .... Very, very nice amp for the home user and a lot cheaper than those Krells and such.
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Are you seriously recommending the Yamaha as an alternative to "high-end" amps such as Krells? Have you actually compared a Yamaha, (QSC, Crown, Behringer, or the like), with any of the tauted, high-end products?

I would really like to believe that the sound quality of these "professional" amps is compedative with high-end consumer stuff. Of course, there are people who will never concede that this could possibly be. Not me, however I certainly don't believe that all amps sound the same. E.g. I heard a big difference moving from my previous amp to my current Bel Canto.

[poneal]

Are you seriously recommending the Yamaha as an alternative to "high-end" amps such as Krells? Have you actually compared a Yamaha, (QSC, Crown, Behringer, or the like), with any of the tauted, high-end products?

I would really like to believe that the sound quality of these "professional" amps is compedative with high-end consumer stuff. Of course, there are people who will never concede that this could possibly be. Not me, however I certainly don't believe that all amps sound the same. E.g. I heard a big difference moving from my previous amp to my current Bel Canto.

Nope all I'm saying is that $400 can buy a lot of amp that rivals some amps costing 3 or 4 times as much. If you have thousands of dollars to spend on amps and it doesn't hurt your pocket book then by all means buy the best that money can buy. For the other 90% of us, a high quality professional amp will provide as much power and very similiar specs as those high end units.