Any Rotel love around here? Looking to power my Sonus Faber Olympica 3

I had the RC1070 preamp before. Also had the RB1070 and then the RB1090 in the past and I enjoyed them.

I like the look of the new ones and I want to make sure the capacitors and electrics are new so they last. I need it to be worry free because this is going to the family room... need it to be reliable.

Looking for pure stereo.  

@samac 

Thanks!  I heard the rc1590/rb1590 combo and I agree, very good combo!

I have been trying to locate the RA1592 integrated that's based partly on the rc1590 and rb1582mk2... But no one has it so far.

@ebm 

When you say "mediocre" sounding, which unit are you referring to and what similar price point would you recommend?  

Appreciate the comments. 

I can see the Krell of yore, but the new stuff does not interest me.  

What about Arcam?  NAD?  Musical Fidelity? 

The only prerequisite I have is a plethora of options for input, including bluetooth, etc. 

Luxman?  Marantz?

@samac 

My brother has the MF6 integrated and likes it.  I think it sounds good as well.  DOes not have all the swiss army knife features of the rotel, which is why I lean rotel. 

The problem with going full Rotel RC1590/RB1590 stack is that the amp has to be placed outside the media console in the family room and my wife is leary of that... I have waf to abide by here.   haha...

otherwise, the RA1592 would fit inside the media console and would have all the doo-hickeys for her.  BT and ability to stream her iphone music etc.  

This system is more for her than it is for me, but obviously I am in the family room a lot so I want good sound too.  

I am constrained with positioning of the O3 as well, I cannot pull them out too far from the wall so I am sure there will be boominess. 

Plus a lot of the input will be from TV sources, DVR, netflix.. so it's not the highest quality sources either. 

@shadorne 

Thanks for the input on luxman and marantz, those are now out. 

Would love to do boulder or some super integrated, but it lacks swiss army knife functionality of rotel, bluetooth aptx, usb in front, onboard dac. 

@samac 

Thanks for the kind words... I think I will be happy otherwise it will go back. 

No worries, my main system dwarfs this one.  I guess you can call this the wife's system haha

Lots of good recommendations on this thread.... I brought my wife to magnolia yesterday and she likes the black Rotel RA1592, so I think I may be stuck guys.  

@mward, so I was planning on getting the best Rotel initially prior to starting this thread, but then got diverted by the WAF.  

Atleast it'll sound good and hopefully she will like it.  

My other amp is a beast, so atleast I have that to fall back to.  

@4425 

What's out of whack?

@4425 

I gotcha. 

You're probably right.  I just liked the Rotel RB1590 that's all. I also have a soft spot for Rotel from when I was new to the game 10 years ago when I was 24. 

I have a much better system than the O3/Rotel, so I am a little lenient with it. 

Just to complete the thread... I thought about it and the wife was really not digging the separate amp outside the media console look so we ended up with an integrated.

I took the Rotel RA1570 and the RA1592 home and I kept the 1592.

It has been a good match.