Wow! Just Wow! Buy Immediately!
Over the years I brought alot of different vintage amplifiers such as Bang & Olufsen, Rotel, Pioneer, Kenwood, Sansui, Yamaha, Marantz etc and none of them sound like this Pioneer SA-9500 II. They dont even come close.
This produces crystal clean sound and very powerful. It sounds so realistic like the singer is singing in front of me and like instruments are being played live. The sound is so clean the instrumental seperation is on point.
It took me 6 months of researching and deciding before I went for it, I wish I had brought it sooner. If your wasting your time deciding like I was all I can tell you is forget thinking just buy it because when you get it and listen to it you will be very very happy. In fact I get so excited to go home after work to listen to it!
I was about to get rid of my speakers and upgrade them but when I connected this amplifier my speakers showed me a bass, midrange and treble I thought they were not capable of. Just goes to show if you spend good money on speakers but dont connect them to a Pioneer SA-9500 II they will not show you the sound quality they are very capable of.
I've heard new £10,000 amplifiers that do not sound this good. This is a 40 year old hidden treasure the masses are not aware of.
Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned