To really experience music and feel its message and emotion, you have to be able to hear every detail and mood-making nuance; the saxophone player drawing breath or the guitarist sliding his fingers across the strings! So we (Marantz) design our stereo Amplifiers with our heads and our ears. The combination of carefully selected components, superior build quality and circuit designs with the simplest,shortest, most symmetrical signal paths help bring you low noise and low distortion for total satisfaction.