No single best amplifier here. What decides it is what you have to drive, what you need to plug in, and how much of the system you want in one box.
| Area | Better | Why |
|---|
| Power | B | Yamaha AVENTAGE RX-A6A has more power - 150W against 110W into 8 ohms. That is about 1.3dB, which is a small step in loudness but real headroom on peaks. |
| Analogue inputs | evenly matched | The same number of line-level inputs (5). |
| Room to grow | evenly matched | The same expansion options on both. |
| Price | A | Marantz Cinema 50 costs less - $2,800 against $3,000 at list. |
| Watts per dollar | B | Yamaha AVENTAGE RX-A6A is the cheaper watt - about $20 per watt against $25. A blunt measure, and it says nothing about how either sounds, but it is the honest one for raw output. |
A Marantz Cinema 50 B Yamaha AVENTAGE RX-A6A
depends neither is better in the abstract - it turns on your room, your system or how you will use them. Only specs published for both amplifiers are judged; anything missing on either side is left out rather than guessed.
Which should you choose?
The usual trade-off: Yamaha AVENTAGE RX-A6A measures better, Marantz Cinema 50 costs about 7% less. With most speakers in most rooms that gap is smaller in practice than it looks here.
What a spec sheet cannot show: how either sounds with your speakers, how the controls feel day to day, and what the app is like to live with - which is where most all-in-one amplifiers are actually won or lost. Power figures are the manufacturers' own and are not measured to a common standard, so treat small differences as noise. If you can hear both, that will tell you more than any row above.