ROTEL VS YAMAHA RXV1500

I own a Rotel 1068, it works great and has the adjustments to really dial it in...I think its a winner. I would assume that the Rotel may better the Yamaha but I hope you are able to audition for yourself.

My 1068 is a Pro only not a reciever but I did use pre outs on an Onkyo I owned prior, the sound wasnt vastly better and I quickly fihured that a seperate preamp/processor was in order...........and it was a big step up in performance. The Rotel (reciever or Processor) have cross over settings of 20,40,60,80,100hz plus bass and treble controls for each channel (agreat feature) you can also have seperate settings for dolby and stereo 2 channel and you SACD inputs.....it is very flexible!

The DSP options are mostly a joke and wastefull fluff in my opinion as are many bells and whistles, most of wich are not hardly if ever used, a simple direct approach to electronics will give you best performance, bells and whistles just much up sound and signal path.