Amazing and powerful

I've owned the A-S2200 for 6 months now. The first thing to know is that it took an extremely long time to break in, maybe because of some good quality parts inside. The second thing I would note is that it follows the Japanese school of thought, meaning the soundstage is where your speaker are or slightly behind them. The third thing - and this should actually be the FIRST thing to know about this amp - if you refuse to use the bass tone control on this amp then you're throwing away your money. I mean this can go from sounding normal neutral to effortlessly kicking down your front door. A slight addition of bass can transform the sound from great to majestic. Powerful, gutsy, fast, muscular. 100% clean. I have excellent tower and bookshelf speakers each with plenty of bass, but the Fletcher Munson curve is such that the human ear perceives bass differently at different volumes. If sometimes you like to listen at moderate volume levels (say you live in an apartment) then you will love the option to add bass. It's a beast of an amp. The power rating is misleading, you can double the number. My difficult to drive tower speakers finally sounded right and disappeared instantly even at low volume and there's so much power on tap that I've never been able to move the volume past 12 o clock. This is one of the most underrated integrated amplifiers imo. It's for people who love music, all genres. Its a class act of an amp.

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Yamaha A-S2200

First impression, even before plugging in and listening, is that this amp is a beast that exudes quality of construction. The chassis is heavy and rigid, side panels are a luxurious black gloss, and the two sets of speaker binding posts are solid brass, contoured for grip ease. On powering up the A-S2200 and cranking the volume to "eleven", each input selection (phono, tuner, CD player) remains dead quiet-no hum or signal bleed through at all; very impressive indeed. But how does the Yamaha sound? I've owned it for about 6 months, during which time I've listened through 4 sets of speakers of varying price/quality, and they all sound better than ever. What the Yamaha brings now to their performance is a juicier (but still tight) bass, and a very clean, accurate mid- range. Independent of the speaker, the Yamaha exhibits a nice open sound stage, not so much large as it is pinpoint precise; this enables me to see the exact location of the instruments and/or singers. My listening preferences run the gamut from rockabilly to doowop to vocals, instrumentals, and big band, and the Yamaha handles them all equally. This is a very musical amp, and I can listen for hours without ear fatigue.

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