In my long career selling Yamaha HiFi I must have explained this thousands of times. Loudness buttons are useless unless a method is provided to calibrate the inflection point to the room and speakers in use. IME, without this, every example overcompensates, Luxman included. My 1973 system had a Crown IC150 and D60. The preamp manual instructed the user to leave the loudness button engaged, and reduce the input level pots on the amp so that at 2 o’clock, the volume was enough to be enjoyed flat. Below that, compensation was applied to maintain “equal loudness”. That’s what Yamaha offers as well with their variable loudness knob. One model was made with both knobs motorized and remote controllable…RX-777, but no others. The current model R-N803 improves on this by incorporating loudness compensation into their room correction scheme, called YPAO Volume, selectable within the MusicCast app.
But the OP seems to want the exaggerated bass “bad loudness”, not the artfully integrated kind. For this, nothing currently available beats Luxman. Pony up the $4K for the L505uX…it’s worth it.
But the OP seems to want the exaggerated bass “bad loudness”, not the artfully integrated kind. For this, nothing currently available beats Luxman. Pony up the $4K for the L505uX…it’s worth it.