re performance after all these years still compete with very high end & other over priced amps out on today's market! If you can ever get your hands on one of these it will be the last amp you'll ever need, trust me as I know what I'm talking about! This amp truly makes a night & day difference!Read full review...
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killer amplifier
THIS IS AND EXCEPTIONAL AMPLIFIER AT THE BEST PRICE YOU CAN FIND ACTUALLY, WITH 8 BIG CAPACITOR MADE IN UNITED KINDONG LIKE A BOTLES OF BEER, AND IT TWO POWER TRANFORMERS WITH A TOTAL OF 2.5 KVA, MADE THIS ANPLIFIER AN EXCELLENT OPTIONOION THAT WILL MAKE YOUR SPEAKERS SOUND AS YOU NEVER MIND, ADDITIONAL HAS TOTAL 30 TRANSISTOR [6 PER CHANNEL] s2C5200, THIS POWER WORK EXCELLENT IN BIAMP MODE, FIVE CHANNEL OR ONLY STEREO, IS AMAZING AMP
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Excellent quality Rotel 1095
I have been using the Krell 250a and Krell 250a/3 in my set up for the past 15 years I consider the Krells as super amps I sent the Krells to the factory for repair I decided to try the Rotel 1095 while my Krells are in factory Boy oh boy I was in for a big treat Like someone said this rotel will grab your speakers by the balls and lift them up into the air like nothing you have ever heard This amp has brought new life to my Martin Logan Vantage Speakers
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Rotel RMB-1095 5 Channel Amplifier
Very powerful, drives any speaker that you can hook to it. Dead quiet when there is no input signal. Made a huge difference in my B&W 803s, they always lacked real bass until I used this amp. I used it with high quality cables for input, speakers, and power. It responded very well to a Synergistics Research Master Coupler power cable. Highly recommended.
Amazing Performance - Tons of Wow Factor, at a Very Reaonable Price
When I first hooked the 1095 up to my B&W Nautilus speaker system, I could not have been more pleased with the sound. The instrumentation on my music recordings took on an entirely new dimension. I could literally hear new sounds in the recording that I had never heard and the separation of the sounds created an amazing sound stage was nothing short of, well, amazing! The distinct, individual instruments and voices were now coming out of the air. You can actually pinpoint the position of say the bells or cymbal or Latin guitar strings being plucked - like I've never experienced it before. It took sometime to get accustomed to. Eventually, you realize that this is what powerful, high-end audio gear it all about. This is what you've been missing all these years with "regular" audio gear.
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Plenty of power for my set up.
Plenty of power for my B&W CM9 S2 in my 7.1 set up. Highly recommended!
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Amazing
The amplifier is amazing. The level of quality is second-to-none. It is to bad that the 2009 model of this amplifier is not going to be as good as this model.
Rotel RMB-1095
The Rotel RMB-1095 is a great amp for the money! I wish they still made them! It rivals some of the more expensive amplifiers that are on the market.
Rotel, originally founded by Tomoki Tachikawa under the name Roland, broke into the electronics industry in the 1950s as a Japanese distributer of US-made Sylvania television sets. Due to the higher voltage standards employed on the far side of the pond, distributing Sylvania’s products, at the time, meant that Roland was also responsible for both modifying and servicing said products to meet local requirements. As a result, engineering quickly became a mainstay of Roland’s business plan, and eventually led the company away from distribution and into manufacturing. In 1961, Roland became Rotel, and continued to focus on manufacturing quality electronics until the late 1960s, at which point they began designing and manufacturing products for other audiophile-oriented companies as well as under the Rotel brand name. In 1973, Rotel earned its first Consumer Reports “Best Buy” award for their hugely popular RX-402 receiver -- and the rest, as they say, is history.
I first took note of Rotel shortly after the launch of the company’s 10 series. I had a penchant for imposing-looking high-end gear, was in the market for an amp that could do double duty for music and movies, and Rotel’s then-flagship multichannel amplifier, the five-channel RMB-1095, seemed to fit the bill. It had massive vertical heatsinks over 9” high, tipped the scales at just over 75 pounds, and put out 200Wpc, all channels driven into 8 ohms, 20Hz-20kHz, with less than 0.03% THD. I was sold at first listen. The RMB-1095 was manufactured from 2000 to 2008; then, in 2009, Rotel rolled out their 15 series, which eventually included the RMB-1095’s successor and the subject of this review: the RMB-1585.
The beast beneath
Rotel’s RMB-1585 [$2999 USD] is every bit the muscular, 200Wpc beast its predecessor was. It stands 9 3/8” tall, is 1/8” less wide than the RMB-1095 at 17”, but at 17 7/8” deep is almost 3” deeper, and weighs a beefy 79.3 pounds. The RMB-1585 also has an entirely new look that reminds me a little of Krell’s popular Showcase series in its rounded, polished corners of solid, CNC-machined aluminum, and flat, clean faceplate. Available in black or brushed aluminum, that faceplate is unmistakably Rotel -- on it are only a brightly lit, flush-mounted Power button in the upper left corner, and Rotel’s logo stamped deeply into the surface about an inch from the top edge.
The rear panel is horizontally divided into fourths: at top are five balanced [XLR] and five unbalanced [RCA] inputs; below these, flanked by a pair of exhaust fans, are a 12V trigger in/out bay and the master power toggle; below these are five high-quality binding posts easily capable of accepting speaker cables terminated in spades, bananas, or bare wire; and, at bottom, a row of small ventilation slots and, at far right, an IEC outlet. A bulky rubber bumper is placed in each corner of the panel to ensure that the terminals won’t be damaged if the amplifier is upended, or pushed against a wall or the back of a cabinet. Unfortunately, Rotel has seen fit to do away with the handy wheels that replaced the rear feet of the RMB-1095; their absence made positioning the RMB-1585 a bit more tedious.
Removing the generously ventilated, one-piece cover of stamped and folded steel revealed the RMB-1585’s neatly organized innards, and made obvious the attention Rotel has lavished on cooling. Each heatsink has its own ventilation slots. The RMB-1585 monitors the temperature of its heatsinks; should they exceed a predetermined temperature, the cooling fans come on automatically, to quietly pull air through all vents and cool things down.
Necessitating all this cooling are three pairs of high-current power transistors per channel, fed current by two 535VA toroidal transformers, potted, stacked, and wired in parallel. Dynamic power demands from each of the RMB-1585’s 30 transistors are handled by eight 80V, 15,000µF slit-foil bulk storage capacitors, made in the UK by BHC Aerovox. Rotel makes use of slit-foil caps in all of their 15-series amplifiers; they believe that such capacitors minimize the eddy currents that typically reduce a conventional cap’s ability to efficiently store and supply energy. Collectively, these components enable the class-A/B RMB-1585 to produce a rated power output of at least 200Wpc, or a total of just over 1kW, all channels driven into 8 ohms. While, on paper, the RMB-1585’s damping factor of 260 is a good bit lower than the RMB-1095’s 400, Rotel explained to me that this is primarily due to a change in the way they measure this specification, and that the RMB-1585 provides similar if not greater levels of control over the speakers it drives. Rotel also told me that while they don’t specify the RMB-1585’s output into 4 or 2 ohms, it’s fully capable of driving speakers of such impedances, and that its output into 4 ohms is >300Wpc. The RMB-1585’s specs for total harmonic distortion [THD] and intermodulation distortion [IMD] are both