So now that you all have had your Yamaha Aventage RX-A8A or A6A for a while, what do you seriously think of it? Forget about the 2.1 update for now and base your experience on the overall performance and sound of the Musicality and Movie viewing performance etc.
I am more than impressed by how it sound. I already told my personal story about audiophilia but here it is again : when I was seventeen, my girlfriend step father was the owner of a high end audio shop (stereo was the only thing existing at that time). One day she proposed me to have a private listening session. It has been a revelation. Since then I was looking for having the money to get a system that brings me back to these years. I had a Denon AVC-A1D for almost twenty years, was ok but not really close from what I remembered. The day I got my RX-A8A was the Ratatouille scene where Ego got childhood flashback : this time I was there, I finally managed to get the sound I was dreaming for with an integrated audio amplifier.
So this is my noob point of view of course, I didn't owned a thousand different amps, and I can't hear the distortion under 0.1677869879% which means I am almost deaf. But when it's about how it sounds, I can tell you I am not disappointed.
