Quote Originally Posted by RGA
Are you running a surround system?

There should be a dyual setting -- for listening to two channel music you don;t want to be runnuing any of the crap any of these receivers offer up -- ie the thing should be set to two channel stereo(that is if new receivers are even bothering with this -- it's a good way to hide difficiencies with surround delay modes and distortion generating channel separation/delay.

You should make sure you have your speakers positioned correctly - receiver in 2 channel with bass and treble set to FLAT. -- all delay and any surround modes OFF. Any balance and size modes OFF. Running two and ONLY two speakers.

If it cannot do 2-ch correctly then there is no point IMO to go any further. The NAD 320 I have heard now on two occasions (I would avoid it like the plague). Rotel RA 1 is far better and the same general price -- or the NAD C352 or older NAD 320 models -- just not the 320Bee.

The Yamaha should be about as good as the NAD -- if you can get the settings right on the receiver -- they are bloody nightmares to get right and counterintuitive -- my Marantz is downright annoying for functionality.

I'm gonna try to play with the setup a bit more. I'll need to find sometime to take my own demo CD down to YAWA to see how their setup sound like with NAD C320 and C352. So far all I know is they sounded very good in Piano playing with my Yamaha and when Yawa demo their own CDs which is piano playing as well. The only problem is when I playing rock or R&B the vocal & bass get distored when hits higher note.