Quote Originally Posted by musbdeaf
If I turn on "Hells Bells", I can only turn it up half way in a 45x20 room. It's flat CRANKIN"!!! The dynamics range is awesome, and my ears ring afterwards. It has an unbelieveable soundstage with the speakers about 12 ft apart. The bass deflects my diaphragm. I get small adrenal rushes. Even the hair on the back of my neck stands up. This isn't even a particularly well engineered recording either. What more could you ask for from this system at this price???
That was some morale booster from you - musbdeaf. Everytime i get online to some audiophile forum - I find people critisising Yamaha amps - but then there are exceptions like you - who still make me feel my decision was a waste of some hard earned cash!

I do feel it is loud enough for an average man - and more than adequate for my 300Sq ft room. And I am happy enough with the lack of distortion upto almost 80% of the output levels - lets say 2 o clock position on the volume dial. But then - that component cross talk does annoy me at the preamp stage - I find it often enough - if I accidentally leave the sattelite reciever on - and turn on the CD volume - when the CD goes silent you can hear the rock from the Sattelite reciever playing somewhere in the high frequency range.

Do you have any such issues?