Yamaha RX-797 receiver

"It is truly clean, powerful and colorless (good thing) and makes my BOSE 901s dance around the room again..."

"Beyond high output, this receiver has surprisingly good quality, on a number of attributes: 1) Sound quality is very good..."

"6) Amber LED readout -- easy on the eyes in a dark room Stereo receivers this good at a low to mid price point are almost nonexistent in the present market..."

"Quality, construction, power to spare! None The Yamaha RX797 is one of the few high end receivers still available for the serious audiophile..."

"The "Direct CD" feature really lets the music through with crystal clarity..."

"Just give it time to break in and mature its electronics..."

"Beautiful!!! The Yamaha makes my Onkyo sound like a coffee can full of broken glass..."

"Hard to find, and find in-stock..."

"Lots of power, low THD, and a bunch of inputs to include phono, and XM (if you buy the antenna/subscribe..."

"It doesn't seem to colour the sound in any way..."

"The only small remark is the switch-off of the display when the CD-direct..."

"I think this is unnecessay since the display electronics are not in the signalpath..."

"For those that may have read elsewhere that this unit does not function well with equalizers, I must tell you that is not true..."

"Just an awesome stereo receiver! 100 watts channel is certainly underrated..."

"This receiver will power any set of speakers you throw at it! Im impressed..."

"This does exacly what i wanted it to do..."

"produce very nice stereo sound with no distorsion.Sound is very clean on my high end tower speakers..could not be more pleased!For the price it can't be beat! This is a very well made solid reciever..."

"Why they could not put an LED light on the volume knob is beyond me..but other then that I love this thing & it's a real miner detail..still a five star reciever..."

"Newegg's..."

"Amazing amp, have it hooked up to a pair of totem dreamcatchers and the sound is absolutely incredible, I have a nice pair of sennheiser 595's with a little dot mkIII tube amp and I thought that was good, but this is a whole different ballpark..."

"Though clearly cleaner, smoother and richer than the other amps I tried that day, it nonetheless has a cold, sterile sound overall that I've never taken great..."