written by on 02/02/2009
I mainly bought the Yamaha AX596 amp for home and for the occasional dj ing. Its fine on my home Tannoys and running it through 12" 100wx2 Gemini Disco speakers it certainly wasn't the amp left wanting. This has a lot of inputs and I run tuner, phono, CDR, CD player, tape deck and laptop through it with all round good results. To me this is a good old fashioned big 'Jap-amp' all the bells and whistles 100w x2 at 8 ohms (20-20,000 at 0.05 thds). I'm sure you could argue the toss over sound quality with some expensive 'Hi-FI' amps but it does it all at an affordable level and with remote e.t.c I don't rate variable loudness knob as it muddies things, just tweak bass level a little bit. Good power, line inputs, bridgeable, 'clean sound'. Only bad point variable loudness not particularly good.