well, after a mere 2-3 hours with this amp. It looks like the NAD is going bye bye.
Never had much time to play with it today, and that pisses me off. Busiest time of the year for me at work. Tommorow will be busy as well. But even with the limited time I was able to get a very good sound out of the 4600 with some minor tweaking of the built in eq. I'm still not settled on where my sub is dialed in, but it's close. I just need more time to get it tweaked
Very Very nice receiver. It handles the Axiom's quite well with loads of reserve. The GUI menu is nice, albiet a little cumbersome to set little things which leads me to my biggest complaint
Yamaha Desperately needs to fire the guys that design their remotes. It's just a mess of cheap buttons, has no ability to trim channel levels. Your forced to go through the menu to trim levels. I also wish you could turn off the darn remote light. That's gotta be sucking up the batteries quickly. Something the Nad allowed you to do. Heck the NAD allows you to adjust the delay time on the light.
I'm surprised there is no overlay that shows your master volume as you turn it up/dwn, or what sound mode you are in. That is something the NAD did, well, at least over svideo/rca. Am I missing something I wonder? NO time to read manual yet. It seems outside of pulling up the entire GUI menu, there is no quick means of checking volume. I was hoping for this because of the woman.
It does get a little warmer then the NAD just over the transformer. But the rest of the amp is cool. I never had the fan on tonight, but will see tomorrow what differnce it makes.
I don't see any reason to keep the NAd over this so far. THe NAd might, and I say MIGHT be a little more dynamic, meaning seperation effects are a little more pronounced, but I may have screwed with the eq too much. The EQ is not user friendly at all but quite useful indeed.
I never even bothered with YPAO or whatever it's called. I really HATE automatic anything. Besides, how hard is it really to stick in distances? As for the EQ, that takes a little more work. Gone are the days of easy graphic eq's
Anyways, 14 hr work day....very tired....going to bed... Will hopefully play more tomorrow. Bottom line, great receiver. CAn't believe I am buying a Yamaha.
