Not sure about the A4, the A6 can for sure so the A8 must be able to too.
The 3080 is a little iffy because Amir couldn't even measure it at 2 V before the unit's protection kicked in. May be that refurbish unit is defective, who knows.. Based on the AH measurements, I would expect the A6A make it to the recommended list and got the full pink panther if Amir. From what I have seen so far, the test results on the same or very similar models did get very similar results on both sites. Until Amir gets to measure another Yamaha, the one that measured the best on ASR is the WXA-50, I mean the overall results not just SINAD for the DAC part.
The manuals for RX-3080, A4/6/8 all say 2V for pre-outs.
On the ASR refurbished 3080, what was the max pre-out voltage?
Amir said on the RX-A1080 that he had to set the volume to +2dB to get 2V = 0.004% THD+N, instead of setting the volume to 0.0dB?
If he left the volume at 0.0dB, it would be 1.57V?
1.6V = 202W (28dB gain), 127W (26dB gain).
Seems funny how the RX-A1080 THD+N is 0.004%, but the Refurbished RX-A3080 is 0.008%. Shouldn’t the THD+N be higher if you increase volume from 0.0dB to 2.0dB?
Did he increase the volume on the RX-A3080 by 2dB to get 2V?