On one hand, the designs of Yamaha's latest devices could have easily been ripped straight from last century, but in another sense, there's a certain level of attractiveness that comes with brushed aluminum AV components sporting retro-inspired buttons / knobs. Nevertheless, the CD-S2000 SACD / CD player (which arrives in silver or black motifs) plays nice with MP3 / WMA files and sports analog, optical / coaxial digital and XLR audio outputs. As for the A-S2000, it's available in the same two hues and can crank out up to 190-watts x 2 at 4-ohms or 120-watts x 2 at 8-ohms. Apparently marketed towards the high-end crowd, neither of these December-bound units come cheap, as the CD-S2000 will demand ¥208,950 ($1,824) while the A-S2000 rings up at an equally staggering ¥176,400 ($1,540).
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posted Oct 24th 2007 8:37PM
Straight from the last century is right! I took one look and for a moment I thought these were stereo amps from my college days in the 1970's. Yamaha was considered top flight consumer equiptment then.
At these prices, they not considered to be "HI-end" products.
I want these I think. They look great. Gimmie a deal on the set!
Are they going to come out with a receiver that matches this. I would be down for that!
Isn't that the receiver in the bottom picture?
People bought CD players that played SACD's not to mention buy SACD's? Well, that's news to me!
Everything's better with a VU meter. . . too bad they didn't bother to include one -- not true retro without it.
Is that real metal?!?!
Hmm. It plays SACD and MP3's? Trying to get both ends of the market I guess...
Won't MP3/WMA support just set off the audiophile-mp3-is-crap crowd (who are probably the only ones who buy SACD)?
No, it's all about choice.