Yamaha AX-497

Yamaha designed the AX-497 integrated amplifier to deliver superb sound from a wide variety of music sources, both digital and analog. It drives 85 watts of dynamic, full-bandwidth-rated power to each of your stereo speakers to provide clear, undistorted sound — even during your music's most demanding peaks. Wide-range frequency response lets you experience all the details on your LPs, CDs, and even high-resolution SACDs and DVD-Audio discs in stereo mode. Yamaha's engineers have taken extensive care with every aspect of the AX-497's design and construction to maximize audio performance, including direct modes that bypass the tone, balance, and loudness controls to provide the cleanest signal possible. The '497 offers enough inputs to connect 6 audio components, including a turntable. Two sets of main speaker outputs let you connect an additional pair of speakers. You also get a remote that gives you easy control of the amplifier and the other Yamaha audio components in your system.