Seven(!) amplifiers around 2500 Euro - Hear the difference - Which one is right for you? 

If this test shows anything it's the fact that you don't have to spend a fortune to bag yourself a really good amplifier! All of them are clearly very happy to be paired with the exceptional TAD speakers and none are embarrased in the slightest. Appreciate your efforts🍻

Rega sounds the most natural with the instruments and also with the voices.

I like the Yamaha’s brightness and the Advanced Paris though they are all great sounding works of art.😊

Yamaha and Advance Paris ❤!

Rega and Advance Paris are good but reside on both end of the spectrum. I can see myself enjoying both with respective genres. The Yamaha is a good solid all rounder.

Cyrus the winner and close second yamaha. I like their medium and fluidity ! The others difficult to choose un order...

Ive listend to all up close and personal, except the Moon .. The clip was ok but it's far removed from sitting there . Out of all (-moon) the Atoll would get my money well the 100 did just prefered it over the 300 . Lots of time and effort in there so thank you ..

I couldn't hear any significant difference at all. So I would just buy the one that looks and feels best 🙂

Advance !! Paris🇫🇷 A12 🎶1 the Alpha for me💪🏼 met Ruitenwissers 👌🏼😁Yammie 2 Rega 3. Top test Jaap complimenten

Personally, I miss the Focal Sopras. Would love to hear these amps on those.

I'm sorry to say that all too often, hi-fi vendors always recommend the most expensive model when you ask for their recommendations. I think it's their margin that influences their recommendation. Thank you for this informative comparison ! 😉

Rega and Atoll were my favourites

For me it's the Rega or Atoll for their more "warmer" sound, then the Yamaha. Difficult to judge through RU-vid how the definitive sound of each amp is, here we just hear the difference between them.

I could hear some very minor differences between amplifiers, but I could not choose which I preferred. I DID enjoy the music selections though!

Thank you for taking the time to do this. To bad you didnt mix in a few vintage amplifiers. Maybe the next video. I've been saying this for years. There is no "HUGE" difference in sound between quality amplifiers, very little. The biggest difference is in the speakers. Change the speakers, change the sound. Good video.

Don't know what I'm missing. And maybe that's not a bad thing. They were all interchangeable. Meaning I could live happily with any. Tho I liked the Moon and Atoll the most

I apprecate very much these sample tests so the vieuwer can hear for himself. Alpha Audio is unique in this regard. Kudos to Alpha Audio!

The Arcam SA30 has been discontinued and replaced. You can get the Arcam SA20, the little brother of the SA30, for @ $900 (800 Euro) on close-out.

My Cyrus has lots more low end grunt than I hear in this test. I had been thinking of upgrading even though really happy with the Cyrus. All these sound great to me, maybe the Moon and Yamaha get my attention. However choice for many consumers is not just sound, it’s also functionality, reliability, and where you can get them fixed if they crap themselves. Possibly Yamaha gets the 👍🏼 with all these. Plus it has tone controls 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Advance Paris #1… What?? Never heard of them. Really, really great. Yamaha A-S1200 a very close 2nd. I had these two tied for first… then after 4 or 5 re-listens, viva Paris…sorry Yammy. Cyrus Classic was 3rd. Very very good tho. Balanced & open. Solid sound. Rega Elicit MK5 is a close 4th. Arcam SA30 5th, which nearly tied with Atoll IN300 which was a close 6th; both a little thin. Both great detail. Moon was horrible. Dead Last…a distant 7th. This surprised me the most, I think.

Just at the end when the Arcam goes to the Paris: listen to those handclaps, what a difference...

Strangely enough, the rega and mostly the advance paris are doing it for me.

thoroughly enjoyed the Rega but that Advance Paris device was off the hook

Sound wise very close but to look at it has to be the yamaha for me, i would have the yamaha and never change it with those looks 👍

Thanks for the effort you put into this video. Trying to decide on a sound signature. This has both helped and hindered. The one thing i really can take away is how different everyones tastes are going by the comments.

Best sounding for me : Yamaha, Rega, Arcam.

so many people so many opinions, so interesting. advance paris is anothoer suprising find, it is so different and so cool

Love the second track? Honestly I can't tell a difference

Paris, Rega, Cyrus, Yamaha, Arcam, Moon, Atoll

Thank you very much for this comparison. I found the Moon and the Cyrus near the same sound, the same with the Arcam and the Advance Paris, these two sounds the same, of course really good all of them. Surely in a live listen those have their noticeable differences, but from this recording those pairs sounds exactly the same to me, so great amps indeed. I'm interested on buy the Atoll IN300, do you like the Atoll over some of the others amps you show here? Cheers!

What I want in an amp, is to sound exactly like my preamp. Just louder. ☺I love this video exactly what I want in a review, just A/B them. I challenge anyone to only listen to the audio and do not look at the video and if you can tell when the amps are switched.

The Atoll immediately sounded thin, which may work if your speakers are warm. Overall, I liked the Cyrus and the Rega.

I'd choose the Rega.

May be we are chosing the ampli that son better in the smartphone !

rega elicit !

MK5 win together with Paris?....

Arcam/Yamaha, Paris, and the rest

A little mistake in the description: first song name is "Mooie Dag"

With the second song for me Yamaha is clearly the winner because it portrays the piano the most natural with lots of air around it. As to the first song, here I didn't hear so much differences between the amps at all, maybe in the bass department.

Alpha Audio thank you so much for the effort and the professional works you do for us! I would like to ask if there will be any chance in the future to put the musical fidelity m3i (not the m3si) in comparation with new amps from the similiar price range.

Top 3: Arcam, Paris, Atoll.

Cyrus - Clear (literally) winner Arcam - Fullest sound

I know how great Atoll is, i may be biased cos its value for money and great stuff from France

Make a comparison between amplifiers with different prices

The Elicit 5 with 948 Focal? All genres inc hard hard rock

i realy don't hear any diffrence than very minute ones but even that could be imagination. Even a sound signature i can't hear it only at minute 5:29 from the rega =>Moon i hear clearly a volume difference an drop in bass. Great speakers i must say.

Moon and Atoll for me…

There is no different. All the amps sound the same. 😔👆 🤔

At first I liked the Atoll a lot, but as we made it through all three tracks, it was eclipsed by the Rega, Yamaha, and Arcam. They gave me the most emotional connection to the music, maybe because i thought that they were the liveliest. After that came the Atoll and Cyrus, with the Advance and Moon at the bottom, with the Moon being my least favorite by far. It was very dull and bland sounding.

I know how good the Atoll and the Advance Paris are as I had listened to them before. For me it was impossible to judge them on youtube though

Hi there, I really enjoy your videos i think they are very objective and interesting to watch. I could benefit from a friendly advice if possible ;). I am having kef R3 meta that are rated at 4oms. I am considering to pare them with atoll in200 with rhe da200dac but the other amp i was thinking about was sa20 or the new a25. That being said you have mentioned in your article that arcam doesnt like 4oms. In that case do you think that the atoll might be a better match? Thank...

Any opinion on the Vincent SV-237 hybrid? Costs around 2.500 as well with several good reviews. I guess tonally quite different than this group of amps?

Yamaha and Advanced Paris. Yamaha clarity and Advanced tube stage midrange.

In this recording, the differences between the amplifiers were much more subtle. Moon and Advance Paris sounded better than in the 3.5 hour video. Cyrus and Arcam sounded worse here. I liked Rega the most and Atol the least. Really good quality recording.

Arcam Atoll Rega

Any easy one to the Yamaha IMO, all other amplifiers had too obvious weaknesses such as too slow or lean bass, muddled mids, sharps highs or higher noise floor.

Rega all day long.

atoll and rega far superior to yamaha and advance. in the middle arcam and moon. nice amp cyrus.

Excellent demonstration!. I don't know what to say a lot of good stuff!. I think Advance Paris cause I have one!.🤷🏽‍♂️

the amps sound different Yamaha and advance Paris can bee grouped together, Atoll Cyrus and arcam can be grouped. But without a reference it's hard to say which tonality is better or more correct. Yamaha and Paris can be described as more open or having less body depending on point of view...the other having more weight, darker or congested depending reference point. Basically these tests are bloody pointless. Add to that the colouration introduced by the microphone and monitor. Even if you owned the test monitors, do you listen through a microphone setup. I am probably going to by the amp that looks the coolest and that is hands down the Advance Paris. For these testes to be a bit more meaningful...perhaps record a reference with amplification that is unattainable and superbly matched...then play sections of the same song from the start between each so that viewers can here the percussion through each, verse through each and so forth. I commend the effort to demonstrate the impossible however

The Yamaha. It has life whilst the others are detailed but sterile and lifeless

For me, Advance Paris.

Cyrus !!!

For you the two better please ? With the song like Real instruments and voice neutral

I must admit that I don't understand the concept of listening different amplifiers with the same computer. All the more so the quality of the sound manly depends on the couple "amplifier / speakers".

RU-vids compression makes it very hard to have any verdict here but still some minor differences. What I can say is the first song is a disaster. Please dont play it again.

Rega all the way baby

I think Pascal sounds best 😊

The Atoll was the livliest and jumped right out of the pack...Rega Worst.

What was the last track? Shazam didn’t find it ;)

The Atoll sounds much punchier than the rest. I heard no difference until the Atoll kicked in.

Yamaha rega

This really puzzles me. If someone is happy to pay circa £2500? For an amp. They are evidently serious about the quality of music reproduction. Problem is, reproducing the sonic characteristics of any amp through a pair of loudspeakers, using microphones to record that sound, probably digitally, then broadcasting it via the compressed algorithms of RU-vid, to be further processed by the listeners DAC and reproduced by that listener’s phone, tablet, laptop, desktop, streamer or, fully comprehensive hifi system, mean that what the listener hears has virtually no fidelity to the original amp. A bit like asking a blind man to judge and compare different colour tv pathologies.

What was that first song you played?

There is no differens between this. I can't here it.

Rega then Yamaha, the Cyrus sounded thin and the rest were meh ok.

#1 Yamaha A-S1200 But unfortunately it has no DAC on board.... #2 Advance Paris A12 #3 Arcan SA30 But i still like my Michi X5 the most ;-)

Did anyone actually close their eyes when listening? Because they all sounded the same. There was no difference.

something about the low end of the Atoll that's quite seductive

Brand bias aside..The slightest difference here and there are not worth the asking price..I bet my cheap marantz receiver also can compete with those amps 🤪🤪

What are the speakers?

What was your favourite?

I hope this is taken as constructive criticism, and one man’s opinion for what it’s worth…to me this was a wasted opportunity for thousands of us to have heard your direct descriptions of all this great gear. Listening to recordings of recordings, over RU-vid, on either a phone or other equipment that’s nothing like yours, in our own very different listening environments, is SO far removed from what they actually sound like. Man, I really wish you would’ve given quick descriptions of how they sound in person compared to each other. Thanks for reading.

I really wish you would play real music when doing demonstration 😢

I dont hear any difference..... Just joking 🙃 🤣

all same same

Rega hands down the best. Yamaha the worst as always 😂

ARCAM

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