Unfortunately, our Installation Service excludes all gas appliances. It is the customer’s responsibility to find a gas safe engineer to connect the appliance. Any work conducted by a third part gas safe engineer will be at the customer’s expense and we will not accept any liability for their work. This loudness control is designed to compensate for those changes by readjusting the balance of bass and treble. It works, and is well worth a try. Figure out the audio chain (how many components you have and how you plan to connect them) in your system. If your only source is a CD or DVD player, or if your integrated amp has preamp-out and preamp-in connections, you can easily make all of the necessary connections.

Even at low volumes, the A-S501 gets to portray a high degree of detail that is quite remarkable. Because of the changeable loudness, it has a pleasant and appealing low-level sound that is just slightly missing in the bass although there’s in which the dynamic sound intensity comes into effect. In the vast majority of cases we will not be able to install the cabinet doors to built-in laundry products as the fittings very rarely match up. We will try our best however if we are unable to do this we will still install connect to plumbing and put the appliance in situ. My main problem was that the speakers were 4 ohm speakers and very few, if any, companies made a reasonably priced amp that would provide the 4 ohms required to drive the speakers. This unit has the ability to put out the 4 ohms and have more than enough power to drive my speakers and no fuses to buy. The holidays are here now and I haven't had enough time to hook everything up, so I don't know how they will work, however, I suspect that the old speakers just might blow before the new amp does. Direct signal path speaker relays and an optimised circuit layout offers the shortest possible signal paths, while Yamaha’s pure direct mode allows you to bypass the tone, loudness and balance controls and the input buffer amp shortening signal paths even further.

We do provide installation options for built-in appliances providing it is simply a case of fitting the appliance and furniture doors. Any additional work to the kitchen units or carpentry work required will need to be completed at the customer’s expense.

That is a little on the high side for a pair of 44s, unless they’re in lovely condition and have been serviced. As speakers age, crossover components degrade which can affect the high frequencies in particular, and the drivers can in some cases degrade also. As good as they are with a bit of work, I’d probably give them a miss. So curiousity got the better of me and I upgraded the A-S501 to the A-S701. All I can say is my expectations have been exceeded! To be honest I wasn’t expecting much of an improvement at all, just the potential inconvenience of selling the A-S701 on once I realised it wasn’t worth the extra money over the A-S501. But the A-S701 sounds very very smooth with tighter, punchier bass. It feels more balanced, a bit more neutral and my speakers are sounding better at lower volumes which is perfect as I’m in a flat with housemates and downstairs neighbours. The CD direct function is wonderful too. I’m running my external DAC through it and the music sounds really fabulous. I can’t stop listening. I’m very happy! While the A-S501 retains control over the drivers, it isn’t the tightest or most rhythmically competent listen to low-end bass notes occasionally leak, and the throughout notes have a propensity to blur together when played at high volumes. Interesting Ashley I never gave that a thought about my Yamaha amp, I guess if it had a DAC I would have the Cambridge Transport now. However, fingers crossed, my very old Arcam Alpha 9 CD Player is behaving itself at present so unless it finally dies I will sit tight for now I think as I like the sound I am getting from it. Originally several years ago it would start slipping towards the end of a CD it originally started doing it and I had it fixed under warranty. When it was about five years old it started doing it again so it sat in the cupboard for many years. I know it could start at any moment but you never know I guess. It has another fault in that it reads the disc when I load it but within seconds loses the detail. I can get around that by pressing play before closing the cd drawer and it is fine!

We’ve put together a comparison table below so that you can see the similarities and differences between the different models.

and coaxial inputs will accept 2ch PCM (not Dolby Digital/DTS). The audio stays in the digital domain, giving you pure, Using this volume control, you may compensate for those variations by resetting the ratio of bass and treble in the sound signal. It works, and it is worth your time to give it a shot.Also featured is the new analogue loudness control. Situated on the front panel, this variable loudness control uses electronic volume for higher sound quality, letting you adjust the loudness effect as you wish. This control is completely separate from the main volume control and allows control over the balance of the low and high frequency sounds. This provides full tonal range at any volume level and compensates for the natural loss of high and low frequencies in the human ear at soft levels. The aforementioned impedance selector switch accompanies the large speaker terminals, which can accept bare wire or banana plugs. Of course, no Yamaha would be complete without fiddly end caps pushed into the speaker terminals, which require removal if one wishes to use banana plugs.

Unlike the integrated amps of yesteryear, these new models have been designed for the modern audiophile. All models have a subwoofer out, optical and coaxial digital inputs. The major difference between the A-S301, A-S501, A-S701 lies in their amplification stage. To answer your question. The reason Yamaha don’t include a DAC in an amp at that price level is because when you reach that level of amp it is assumed you’ll want an external DAC anyway. Internal DACs are usually a compromise between cost and performance. They add materials cost to the amp which takes the budget away from parts of the amp where it could be better spent. If it were up to me no amp would include a DAC at any price but for the most part the inclusion of such is limited to the budget sector, or a few high end products where the budget allowed them to at least do a decent job. You have a truly excellent amp and a great streamer too. It sends signals from the input to the output in a horizontal line from the input to output. The bottom frame of the ART Base lets you mitigate vibrations and improve the quality of sound reproduction by lowering the frequency response. Exceptionally high-quality components were employed in the construction of the gadget. Yamaha has come out with a solid lineup of integrated amplifiers geared towards soothing the two-channel audiophile in all of us. If you think that these integrated amplifiers are your father’s or grandfather’s integrated, you’d be sorely mistaken. Yamaha has gone to great pains to outline the company’s rich heritage in the integrated amplifier market and show how today’s integrated amps link tradition to tomorrow.The Yamaha A-S501 has the ability to accommodate two separate speaker systems in different rooms and will allow you to either switch between them, or use them both at the same time. Four terminals are included, so the A-S501 can switch the speakers to match the sound source with a simple press of a button. I primarily bought this amp for powering my Elac Debut B6 speakers and Klipsch R-115SW sub, but I also use it with my headphone (Shure SRH1540 / Shure SE846). As an amp this Yamaha is great BUT, the headphone output is a bit too colored for me: sub bass is noticeably bumped, making the overall sound somewhat muddled. This was very obvious with my Shure SE846 IEMs (I noticed it after a few seconds), and to a more limited extent with my full cans. Also the soundstage of the headphone out is a bit limited. The Altea EX is a 100W speaker that mean, the speaker will react to voltage upper than 20V during more than few seconds. IV1, IV2, IV3, IV4, IV5, IV6, IV7, IV8, IV9, IV10, IV11, IV12, IV13, IV14, IV15, IV16, IV17, IV18, IV19, IV20, IV21, IV22, IV23, IV24, IV25, IV26, IV27, IV28, IV29, IV30, IV31, IV32, IV33, IV34, IV35, IV36, IV37, IV38, IV39, IV40, IV41, IV42, IV43, IV44, IV45, IV46, IV47, IV48, IV49, IV50, IV51, IV52, IV53, IV54, IV55, IV56, IV57, IV58, IV59, IV60, IV61, IV62, IV63, IV64, IV65, IV66, IV67, IV68, IV69, IV70, IV71, IV72, IV73, IV74, IV75, IV76, IV77, IV78, IV79, IV80, IV81, IV82, IV83, IV84, IV85, IV86, IV87, IV88, IV89, IV90, IV91, IV92, IV93, IV94, IV95, IV96, IV97, IV98, IV99 The Yamaha A-S501 Amplifier draws on Yamaha's stellar experience in the production of Hi-Fi components, taking advantage of their technological expertise. Based on the concept of "natural sound", producing music as it should really sound, the A-S501 has had every part of it, from the circuit design to its basic sound production, scrupulously designed and tested to guarantee the highest level of sound quality.