Yamaha Amplifiers

Japanese company founded in 1887 making reed organs. Now the largest musical instrument maker in the world, and a major hi-fi and AV brand.

Founded: 1887 (founded as a reed-organ maker; incorporated as Nippon Gakki in 1897)
Founder: Torakusu Yamaha
Headquarters: Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan
Manufacturing: Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia and China
How to buy: Sold through specialist hi-fi dealers, online retailers and pro-audio dealers
Known for: Being a musical instrument maker first, the NS-1000M beryllium monitor, the NS-10M studio monitor, AV receivers

Currently, we have 14 Yamaha amplifiers in our database. Below you can find the list with their main specs and links to their review pages.

Yamaha Integrated Amplifier (4)
Yamaha Integrated Amplifier with built-in DAC (4)
Yamaha Streaming Integrated Amplifier (6)

Yamaha Integrated Amplifier

Model	Watts RMS (8Ω)	Amp Class	DAC	Phono
Yamaha A-S1200	90 watts	Class A/B	No	Yes
Yamaha A-S2200	90 watts	Class A/B	No	Yes
Yamaha A-S3200	100 watts	Class A/B	No	Yes
Yamaha R-S202	100 watts	Class A/B	No	Yes

Yamaha Integrated Amplifier with built-in DAC

Model	Watts RMS (8Ω)	Amp Class	DAC	Phono
Yamaha A-S301	60 watts	Class A/B	Yes	Yes
Yamaha A-S501	85 watts	Class A/B	Yes	Yes
Yamaha A-S701	100 watts	Class A/B	Yes	Yes
Yamaha A-S801	100 watts	Class A/B	Yes	Yes

Yamaha Streaming Integrated Amplifier

Model	Watts RMS (8Ω)	Amp Class	DAC	Phono
Yamaha R-N1000A	100 watts	Class A/B	Yes	Yes
Yamaha R-N2000A	90 watts	Class A/B	Yes	Yes
Yamaha R-N600A	80 watts	Class A/B	Yes	Yes
Yamaha R-N800A	100 watts	Class A/B	Yes	Yes
Yamaha WXA-50	55 watts	Class D	Yes	No
Yamaha WXA-70A	55 watts	-	Yes	No

About Yamaha

Yamaha began in 1887 building reed organs in Hamamatsu and is now the largest musical instrument manufacturer in the world - pianos, guitars, brass, drums, synthesisers - with hi-fi as one branch of that. Its NS-1000M of 1974 used beryllium midrange and tweeter domes, decades before beryllium became a high-end talking point. The NS-10M, a small and famously unforgiving monitor, ended up in more recording studios than almost any other speaker.

A clockmaker who was asked to repair a reed organ, decided he could build a better one, and carried the parts over a mountain pass to Tokyo to have it evaluated.

The NS-10M was never designed as a studio monitor - it was a bookshelf hi-fi speaker that engineers adopted precisely because it sounded harsh and exposed problems, on the logic that a mix that worked on an NS-10 would work anywhere. The tissue paper taped over the tweeter to tame it became a studio ritual. Yamaha also built the DX7 synthesiser, which defined the sound of 1980s pop as thoroughly as any instrument ever has.

Notable models: NS-1000M, NS-10M, CA and CR series, A-S series, RX-A receivers.

Official Yamaha website

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