Unboxing the new Rotel RA-1592 it was hard not to leap to a couple of early conclusions. First, this is one big bruiser of an integrated amplifier, and a long way from the slimline RA-10/11/12 models which are the spiritual successors to the amps responsible for building the company's reputation some decades back. Second is that, while this amp may appear to come from the same class as, say, the larger Arcam integrateds - in that the amp is physically large and capable of huge output power - the design philosophy is very different.
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