Anthem 225 vs Yamaha A-S2000

I talked to Walter at underwoodhifi.com and he had a yamaha a-s2000 and Luxman l550 in for trade-ins and they compared the two and the Yamaha a-s2000 sounded better than the $$$4800 Luxman l550 !

The Anthem 225 is a really good amp BUT for less money you can get a MUCH better amp with the Bada Purer 3.3se with the Jan 6189 tubes !...

Soniqmike, my friend owns the bada amp and he has had it for only 3 weeks and has had no problems with it yet. I'm thinking about trying out the Yamaha later on....

Takisjk just left some really great feedback about his Yamaha a-s2000 on Sonicbeauty's Review on the Yamaha a-s2000 here on audiogon !...

The Yamaha puts out 190 watts as you can see in this review... http://www.goodgearguide.com.au/review/home_entertainment/yamaha/a-s2000/259907 .Also they was a French reviewer that just loved the yamaha a-s2000. He was using some Verity Audio Parsifal Ovation (25,000) and these speakers are hard to drive too...sensitivity is only 85.0db. He said this amp is an incredible value...compare it to integrated amps in the $5,000 to $7,000 range !.. A Classic that we will talk about for a long time!

I got my Yamaha a-s2000 today and I'm SHOCKED at how GOOD it SOUNDS ! It sounds much more like a really good CLASS A AMP like the Luxman L590a mk2 or Accuphase! This amp does run a little WARM. I'm going to let it break-in good for 400 hours or so and see how much better it sounds then.....