Yet another bold claim...

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Ohlaracoarapsodotmessofese....

http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/circuits-discover-each-other-024002.php

 

Merlin,

I think these words are yours Sir:

"I'd agree with Jason, Rotel amps are "shockingly" good and make you wonder why anyone bothers with more esoteric stuff.

The 1062/Dyanaudio 52 combo is a pocket friendly music maker that should keep you from wasting money on so called upgrades for years."

I'm just trying to tell you why they are so good...

 

So, that's be BD 1, Merlin 0. Seconds out, round two!

 

Oh dear, now I'm mixing metaphors. This place is bad for me.

 

Portugal 1 England 0 they think its all over........

Is that better

Check out Tube Dudes link, those portugese have some sexy circuits going on.

 

BD,

thanks for searching out my words of wisdom - I don't believe I am contradicting myself here.

Rotel power amps are very good indeed IMO, I have owned many of them over the years and still have their AV integrated. Where they are easily surpassed by more esoteric designs IMO is in the area of resolution. For some, resolution is very important. The Rotel's failings appear to those of losing information rather than adding much of their own and as such are inoffensive. Indeed with the 1K's you might prefer something with less resolution and low distortion.

 

Merlin,

Those words about Rotel were without any doubt words of wisdom. Forget about resolution (or what you think that's resolution). If the output is almost equal to the input there's no way of you are missing anything but so little. The 1062 puts the musicians right in my listening room... it is a music maker.

My ears are telling me exactly that... and yours did too!

And just to put it in perspective, the 1062 is a lot better and has much more resolution than the Moon I-5 which I also did have in my system... and I love Simaudio stuff.

 

This is a joke isn't it?

Did you compare the Sim and the Rotel back to back like I did?

 

I say, you have a small problem then BD, as having had both said amplifiers back to back the Moon was *significantly better* in ALL areas.
That is not to say the 1062 is bad, far from it, however the Moon was another league above the Rotel, one just has to decide weather the extra cash in purchasing the Moon is worth it.
Interesting you find this?

 

Maybe the speakers are unable to display the different resolution between amps.

 

Penance,

I feel you are maybe scratching at an open sore there my friend

 

No Mr P, they are very revealing.

Having said that, the Rotel does tend to smooth off everything ever so slightly which might well seem preferable with such brutal monitors.

 

was just a suggestion

 

my only credential on this is my search for an amplifier, and perhaps the Moon I-5, but I was interested to read
http://www.theabsolutesound.com/newsletter/149/rotel_ra1062.html
especially the second half, which seems to chime in with what has been said here.

It would seem that the RB1062 offers forgiveness, that both less than perfect recordings and CDPs might appreciate.

 

I find all Rotels are quite forgiving ditton, the RA-01 certainly is, which is good for listening to most popular music IMO. For people like me who have no interest in crappy audiophile jazz recordings then Rotels amps are as good as most people will ever need.

 

I can tell you more... one of the reasons I end up buying the Nu-Vista M3 long time ago (a big mistake...) was because when comparing the Sim And the M3 back to back I then felt the Moon I-5 was rounding off everything and the Nu-Vista exceled in detail and resolution... pleeeeease!

And by that time I was using Dynaudio's 1.3 MKII... and everybody knows how well Dyn and Sim mate.

I encourage everybody else to compare the Sim and the 1062 back to back and then tell us what do you think...

 

I've no idea what you lot are on about half the time.

 

Seems a bit of multinational points scoring to me, multi dimensional if you add WM into the equation.

 

I am going to say this for the last time:

If the 1062 doesn't sound good in any way in your systems look elsewhere in the chain.

The null test does tell everything about an amp... the 1062 isn't perfect but it is the closest I found to Tube Dude's amp.