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The Rotel RB-970BX power amplifier is an excellent sounding one that allows music lover to set up a competent system is a moderate sized room. It is rated for 60 watts/channel into 8 ohm, but weights heavier than many mass market brand receivers rated twice the power. It is a high current design with plenty of voltage headroom and current drive reserve. Its weight comes from a heavy duty toroidal transformer with separate winding for each channel and the beefy output heatsink. It has 4 8,300µF/50V capacitors for the +/- 47VDC power supply. The Rotel sports a triple-Darlington push-pull output stage, with two pairs of bipolar output devices per channel. The Rotel is bridgeable to mono configuration by flicking a switch on the back panel, in which case it's rated at 180W into 8 ohms which demonstrate its headroom in stereo mode. The Rotel’s sound is softer and easier character. Voices were clearer and less congested, and the system sounded much more musical and pleasant overall with the RB-960BX. In comparison to a similar price range Adcom GFA-535II which sounded very forward and aggressive, the Rotel was more laid-back and relaxed. Both have a slight traces of grain and bite through the mids and highs, but the Rotel had much less of this than the Adcom, and was much easier to listen to and live with in the long term. If you're movin' on up from a cheap mid-fi Japanese receiver, you'll probably find that either of these amps sounds vastly better than what you've been listening to music with. The Rotel had a faster, more rhythmically involving bass range. The Rotel's low end was really deep and grooving for such a budget amp. The Rotel also did a fine job of throwing up a good-sized soundstage with more than a hint of real depth. The Rotel is not the amp to buy if you're trying to go for a really analytical, high-resolution budget system. It did not resolve the last snippet of detail from my records and CDs when compared with good mid-priced ( $1000) amplifiers. The Rotel is for the budget-minded music lover who wants a good, solid little amplifier that's not going to make listening to music a trying experience. And for its price, particularly in the used market, that's a pretty fair trick.Read full review
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The amplifier is quiet and has plenty of power. I bought it to replace an old or older Carver M-0.5t amplifier. It sounds dull and lifeless by comparison. Maybe an upgrade or a re-cap would help. I had read that Rotel in general was considered to be somewhat superior to Carver. Not in this case.
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Using this in bridged mode to drive a sub. Very efficient. Never gets hot. Puts out enough wattage in bridged/mono mode. Unbeatable price.
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