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are you kidding?

I used to own the Yamaha RX 596, and recently upgraded to an Audio Refinement Complete.

I haven't heard the S300, but based on what I've heard from the entry level NAD stuff like the C370, I would think the S300 is far, far superior to the Yamaha.

Speculating on if you upgraded, you will find a number of improvements:

- Frequency response is wider
- much larger soundstage in all directions
- more '3-D' dimensionality to voices and instruments, like they're more in-the-room sounding
- much less grain and more refinement in the high frequencies
- it may actually sound like there has been reverb added - this will be the affect of actually hearing the decay of dynamic sounds
- faster attack - all the beats will be sharper, more defined

I could go on, but I think you'd be best to just find out for yourself.

I too was very skeptical about whether an amp could make a difference, and let me tell you, I was shocked and amazed after replacing the amp.


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