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Yamaha's
last 2-Channel amplifiers and part of the ToP-ART
series: Total Purity
Audio Reproduction
Technology. This far flung acronym
doesn't mean Yamaha's previous amplifiers were crap but the early
1990s called for more marketing, hoping to maintain sales in what
had become a gradually dwindling market...
Build-quality
isn't equivalent to a B-2x,
sure, but still rather healthy: fully Dual-Mono with
2x 33,000µF and 2x 35,000µF caps, two 335VA transformers,
Class A stages, HCA output stages, a base made of two 1,6mm steel
plates sandwiched around a damping material, select componentry
and gold-plated bus bars and terminals . The damping factor is huge
as well: 350 between 20Hz and 20kHz ! The result is "Power
ohne Ende", although not as distinguished as, say, a B-2.
The
smaller MX-2 is basically the same
amplifier with less available power and no damping between the two
base plates ; the MX-2 was export only
and not available in Japan.
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