Originally posted by bullion:
He may be accurate on some recievers, but I know for a fact that the Yamaha HTR-5560 outputs the power it says it does (They actually use a 60-piece amp which puts them ahead of a lot of their competitors). Heck, if I wanted to I could take the thing into the engineering lab and prove it



The test I saw was last year. If the 5560 is newer than a year old, they may have changed their ratings a bit to make them read their actual output. It normally isn't the amplifiers themselves that are weak but the PS needed to provide 500-1000w would be massive.

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